No, I can't see the benefit, Steve. Yes, it keeps them in the public ete andso forth, but where's tge good of that.   If the only public appearance of the royal family in 2020 had been the Queen's Vera Lynn broadcast, and Prince Philip's funeral with the Queen on her own, that would have been quite sufficient to remind people they are still there. Especially with all the replays the latter has got thanks to Boris's party problems.

What more is needed, from their point of view. Not from the tabloids who revel in working over real or fancied royal family squabbles, keeping us up to date about princes on the loose getting into scandals.

You might say they deserve it, but they hardly benefit from it.