Harry's not the big royal story

Don’t worry, you are not going to be given yet another opinion on whether or not this particular writer agrees with Harry and Meghan’s decision to break with hundreds of years of stiff royal protocol.

The world and his wife have beaten me to it and absolutely everybody - from the angry bald man on the number 49 to your Auntie Joan - has an opinion, which has made the whole thing rather more tedious than it already was.

The level of coverage this story has received has been mind boggling with commentators and rent-a-experts gravely informing television and radio audiences that this is a Royal crisis to rival the death of the Duke’s mother, Princess Diana in 1997, or the abdication of King Edward VIII.

I would argue this isn’t even the biggest Royal story of the past two months - Prince Andrew’s car crash interview with the BBC late last year must surely rank ahead of this particular storm in a fine china teacup? Never before has a senior Royal been so horribly exposed as the Prince was when he agreed to let the brilliant Emily Maitlis quiz him about his association with the late paedophile businessman Jeffery Epstein.