Prince Harry's problem is not the press, it's that he's losing touch with reality

THERE is out of touch with reality and there is Prince Harry’s concept of reality.

- Melanie McDonagh

One is excusable in privileged people like royalty, the other entails a disassociation from the real world which is just annoying.

I give you this week’s treat, namely, Prince Harr y ’s inter view with Rebecca Barry in the ITV documentary, Tabloids on Trial. In it he intimates that his courageous “mission” against the tabloid press “caused … part of a rift” with the royal family. Asked if his fight had destroyed the relationship with his family, he said, “Yeah, that’s certainly a central piece to it … but you know, that’s a hard question to answer because anything I say about my family results in a torrent of abuse from the press.”

At the risk of adding my droplet to the torrent, this suggestion that his problems with the press are central to his estrangement from his family is nuts. Where do I start?

Well, there was his decision to decamp from the UK and leave the humdrum royal business of attending things to people like his no-nonsense aunt Anne, who is right now over in Paris putting steel in the spine of the UK Olympics team. That move may have been prompted by his lovely wife but he decamped willingly.