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Prince Harry mocked by Supreme Court judge

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‘Privacy’ was the reason given for Harry and Meghan upping sticks and leaving Britain in early 2020. The dilettante duke and his Hollywood beau were supposedly fleeing this sceptred isle to find sanctuary in Canada, away from the beastly British press. So it’s such an awful shame that the right-on royals keep finding themselves embroiled in endless public spats of their own making in their new-found home in America.

A persistent theme in these spats appears to be Prince Harry’s barely-concealed contempt for the American system of government, which makes it all the more baffling as to why he chose to live there. Seemingly unaware of the monarchy’s role in the very creation of that country, Harry first criticised the First Amendment which guarantees free speech as ‘bonkers.’

He then last week launched an attack on the Supreme Court’s recent Roe v Wade decision, suggesting it amounted to a ‘rolling back of constitutional rights.’

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