680News - Lisa Brandt

Have you ever wondered what it must be like to be in the royal family? Of course we’d all like a little taste of the wealth, but when you read, as I have, the end-of-year stats on how many public appearances members of the royal family make and how much of their lives are given to “serving” their subjects, it’s quite a big trade-off.

And everyone knows you so there’s little chance of having a normal life although they all claim that it’s what they’re striving for. It’s easy to say, from the outside looking in, but I wonder if it would be better to just acquire a bit of pomposity and revel in the privileges of extreme wealth and elitism! It might be easier than trying to fight against the responsibilities of the crown.

So Prince Harry, the younger of Diana’s boys, has been fighting on the front lines in Afghanistan for 10 weeks and not a peep was said about it because of an agreement with the media to keep it quiet. A couple of outlets that did not have an agreement broke the story yesterday. Now Harry and his regiment have a symbolic target on their backs. Wounding or, God forbid, killing a prince would be a prized “get” for the Islamic terrorists they’re fighting.

Now the British defence department is recalling Harry and he’s due back in England by the end of the weekend. On the one hand, as a young man with military aspirations, you might feel a bit sorry for him that he doesn’t get to do what he wants most to do. On the other hand, his life is not his own and he has to be used to that by now. And I suppose the military has to do everything it can to improve the safety of its troops, in whatever tiny increments that is even possible to do.

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