Piers Morgan’s wife Celia Walden occasionally drops into the Telegraph to write bizarre columns about the Windsors and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Walden’s columns are not a regular feature and they rarely break news about anyone or anything. She mostly just pops in every few months and makes snide remarks, which makes sense when you know who she’s married to. I can only imagine what Piers is like at home, how obsessively he tracks Harry and Meghan, how he must rant about them constantly. Well, Walden has some snide thoughts about Harry possibly receiving police protection in the UK. Here’s an excerpt:

I still think [Prince Harry] a whiny and deluded national embarrassment, but when I read reports yesterday claiming that the 41-year-old had probably won the right to automatic armed police protection while visiting the UK, I shocked the hell out of myself by thinking: “That was the right thing to do.”

In my defence, we are supposed to be allowed to change our minds when presented with new information, and back in October new information presented itself in the shape of a stalker who came within feet of Prince Harry on two separate occasions during his visit to the UK the previous month.

Obviously, he was always going to attract unwanted attention wherever he was in the world, but the fact that this woman had made it into a “secure zone” in the central London hotel where Harry was attending the WellChild Awards really brought the reality home. Imagine – God forbid – if something had happened to him?

Prince Harry has brought so much upon himself in recent years. He deserves the anger he prompted by disrespecting his grandmother and his father. He deserves the ridicule he will forever get for demanding privacy and then becoming a royal Kardashian. As for publishing that parody of a frostbite-and-all autobiography, there is simply no way back in terms of credibility.

Being the King’s son, however, isn’t his fault. It’s not something he will ever be able to change, either. And as much as I resent any of our hard-earned cash going towards a man who has actively tried to damage the country’s reputation abroad, I’m afraid it is the right thing to do.

There is a limit, realistically, to how much time Harry is going to spend in this country. Meghan won’t be interested in coming back to this curious little backwater with its musty-smelling churches and “bullying” sisters-in-law, so while they’re still together, it doesn’t seem likely that he’ll spend more than a couple of weeks here a year. In 2025, he spent only six to seven days in the UK across two separate visits, the second of which was predominantly taken up with charitable engagements – and, of course, that long-awaited meeting with his father.

It was long awaited not just, presumably, by the two men but by much of the British public, and perhaps now that Harry seems set to have his police protection reinstated, he might occasionally bring his children back to be reunited with their grandfather. You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to want that for everyone involved.

[From The Telegraph]

“As for publishing that parody of a frostbite-and-all autobiography, there is simply no way back in terms of credibility…” Harry doesn’t have a credibility issue – the palace never contradicted anything Harry wrote, and there is no evidence that anything in Spare is false or manipulated. The fact that the Windsors still rant and rave (via briefings) about how much Spare hurt them or how Harry was simply wrong to tell his story, all of that speaks volumes about the truth of Spare.

The larger point of all of this is quite different though. There’s been something of palpable relief across royal media that Harry might have cleared the security roadblock. As this security fight wore on and on, it was getting harder and harder for royalists to justify King Charles’s clear ambivalence about the safety of his son and grandchildren. They were twisting themselves in knots to adhere to palace talking points and (as always) blame Harry for this or that, and it was more and more obvious that Charles and William are in the wrong here. People like Walden are eager to put this storyline to bed because it makes Charles and the monarchy look evil, careless, cold and contemptuous.

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