As flies are to wanton boys – and this particular boy is as wanton as it gets – so Prince Harry is to court cases. Most Spectator readers would avoid the stern and unforgiving – not to say financially ruinous – environs of the Old Bailey for all they were worth, but the endlessly litigious Duke of Sussex has been haunting its halls with the grim determination of a man who knows that right is very much on his side.
Until now, it would appear. The news that Harry has withdrawn his libel suit against the Mail on Sunday has been greeted with a mixture of surprise and disbelief. That this most litigious of royal figures would deign to take his tanks off the lawn is something commentators regard as unprecedented, and embarrassing. It appears from the outside that Harry has somehow been shamed into saying that, actually, the claims in the MoS about his taxpayer-funded police protection might have some foundation in reality.
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