Melanie McDonagh Melanie McDonagh

Why can’t Prince Harry be more like the Queen?

Are you feeling better? Anyone who’s seen Prince Harry address the WE Day – Me into We! – gathering in London yesterday of woke young people, chiefly teenage girls, may have taken time to get over the sheer emetic quality of the performance, but I’m there now, thank you.

But have you ever heard more unvarnished drivel? “You are the most engaged generation in history!” Harry told his audience. “You have the incredible opportunity to help reshape mindsets, to empower those around you to think outside the box and to work with you, not against you, to find solutions”, one cliché at a time presumably. The rumours about Meghan helping write his speeches? I believe them all. There is no way that the prince in his old incarnation of a mildly inarticulate bloke at home in the army could have come up with the stuff he produced in those few short minutes. In emotional terms, he’s now channelling Oprah plus Justin Trudeau.

He told the gathering, “I love you too!”.

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