It is with the perspective of age, and the greater knowledge of life’s fragility that it affords, that we suggest Prince Harry call a halt to his public attacks on a family he knows is unable to respond in kind.
We have never known anyone who publicly attacked a loved one while in their 30s to still think that was their finest hour many years later. But we know plenty who rue that day.
That princely myopia is at the core of our objection to the interminable media blitz surrounding “Spare,” the sensational new memoir that hit the bookshelves Tuesday on both sides of the Atlantic.
Despite allegedly extensive precautions by the publisher, the manuscript has predictably leaked. Reportedly, readers will get one side of the sad story of two brothers, sons who lost their mother, Diana, at a young age, who clearly no longer get along.
Sides were taken on whether the former Meghan Markle was a vulnerable victim of the royal British establishment, or a bullying aggressor who seeks her own agenda, be it dysfunctional or malevolent, long ago. No doubt there was fault on both sides.