The Biggest Nail in the Coffin of the Monarchy — Prince Harry or Andrew?

Today various media went with the line that Prince Harry’s book, called Spare, could be “the beginning of the end” of the British Royal family.

The line came from a Royal biographer, Catherine Mayer, who wrote a book about Charles several years ago. Rather than a rabid, tabloid attack on Harry and Meghan, Mayer has made some intelligent and sympathetic points, including about denial concerning the important issues Harry has raised and the broader cultural context in which the monarchy is sustained.

The critical line from which the headlines and tweets (often not overly reliant on actually reading her words) is: “It is possibly something that will mark the beginning of the end of the monarchy, and that is what we should discuss.”

Obviously, lots of media and individuals will use that line to justify more tirades against Prince Harry and Princess Meghan, who the far-right views as worse than Satan (and much worse than Andrew Tate). But I’d like to pick up on a couple of words in Catherine Mayer’s sentence: “Possibly” and “something”.

When considering the word “something”, which I doubt many tabloids will do, you have to consider what other ‘somethings’ exist. The biggest something by far — yet gets a fraction of the media scrutiny that every single…