I wasn't suggesting, GG, that you were enthusiastic about the royals. Just that, like a few others, you seem very aerated about them. I can't see why there should be more anger addressed at them than at all the rich layabouts and scroungers who infest our societies.

Why are they targets more than people who have won millions on the lottery, for example? (In this case, literally a target.)

One way of looking at this episode is that the Government decided to set up a public relations exercise to make people feel more positive towards the war in Afghanistan. So they shipped off Harry. The Drudge sludgegulper leaked it prematurely, which caused a bit of a kerfuffle as things had to be wound up in a hurry.

At the centre of all this is young Harry, who fortunately appears to have wanted to go. I suspect that if he hadn't that wouldn't have made too much difference.   But the royals are there to do what is required of them. I get the distinct impression that his father, Prince Charles, would have been happier if he hadn't been sent to the war. After all, these people are human beings, who have been landed, through no doing of their own, in a very peculiar situation.