It was always unlikely that Prince Harry was going to take his latest and perhaps most humiliating legal defeat with calmness and equanimity, and so it proved swiftly afterwards. Not only did he give a lengthy interview to the BBC in which he alternated between anger and blame and claiming that it was his intention to reconcile with his family, and specifically his father – William may be a step too far – but he also released an emotive and angry press statement in which he talked about how the court ruling had uncovered ‘shocking truths’. He appeared to suggest that there has been a conspiracy against him; a conspiracy led by the same people, the statement suggests, ‘that preyed upon my mother, that openly campaigned for the removal of our security, and that continue to incite hatred towards me, my wife and even our children, while at the same time protecting the very power that they should be holding accountable.

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