Alexander Larman

How will Harry and Meghan take their next revenge on the Royal Family?

Prince Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex

When Prince Harry appeared on the Stephen Colbert show earlier this week, he deviated from his usual pained ‘my family have wronged me’ routine and attempted to strike a lighter note. 

He told the no doubt surprised host that his favourite smell was Meghan Markle, expressed a penchant for cheese and ham toasties with Dijon mustard on top, and laddishly suggested that he should dispose of some of his tatty old boxer shorts. When asked to describe how he would wish to live the rest of his life, he suggested five words that sounded almost like a mantra: ‘freedom, happiness, clarity, space, love.’ 

Harry seems unable to pass a television studio or interviewer without giving them another pained statement about ‘his truth’

Yet amidst the joshing and uxoriousness, the Duke of Sussex did say one rather more interesting thing. When Colbert asked Harry about his views on life after death, the Prince suggested that we return as animals.

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