Harry's Mad

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Harry Holdsworth’s family received a letter from their Great-Uncle George, in the U.S., telling them that Harry is to receive an inheritance. Imaginations run wild, while waiting for it to arrive. If the Government goes into it without any credibility about its economic plans, it will surely lose, even if the Opposition is in reality just as vacant.

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All royals through history have had to show themselves to their subjects to prove they are still there. As Lord Salisbury, the future prime minister, wrote in the Saturday Review in 1871 when Queen Victoria was burying herself away a decade after Prince Albert’s death – and losing public support as a result: “Seclusion is one of the few luxuries in which royal personages may not indulge. Loyalty needs a life of almost unintermitted publicity to sustain it.” The crowd, it was said, “want the gilding for their money”. As Harry’s late grandmother used to say: “We have to be seen to be believed.” It was as fun as i remembered, with quite sophisticated language given its intended audience was fairly young, including a rather clever cryptic crossword clue (and answer). Watching Prince Harry emoting to interviewer Tom Bradby for more than an hour and 40 minutes it was impossible not to feel sympathy.Ten-year-old Harry, who lives in London, receives a letter from America informing him that his great-uncle has left him something in his will. It turns out to be…a parrot named Madison. But Madison is no ordinary parrot! But by and large, partly as a result of that experience, the British press has been more restrained in recent years. The paparazzi are still with us but their market these days is continental and American – many of the headlines shown in the recent Netflix documentary were from US supermarket tabloids and the photographs of massed ranks of photographers were taken from other, non-royal events on different occasions.

mad - SIR BERNARD Kindest thing on Harry is that he has gone mad - SIR BERNARD

Without drastic cuts in spending and a vigorous economy campaign to eliminate waste, you can kiss goodbye to any responsible tax cuts. We all have a vested interest in a balanced budget. The tabloids do indeed cover the royals intensely and, actually, they mostly get their reporting right. They were the ones who first noticed the rift between Charles and Diana and indeed between the two brothers after Harry’s wedding to Meghan Markle – both of which were important stories and furthermore true.I read a couple of books by this author over the weekend. I didn't enjoy either of them. I wouldn't do a review I can't justify and I started this with a little trepidation too. Turns out I enjoyed this a lot more Ethan the previous books of King-Smith I have read.

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Would Harry rather return to the deference of the press in the 1930s, when it failed to report Edward VIII’s burgeoning love affair with Wallis Simpson until it was all but a fait accompli? The lessons of that experience are that deference does not work when there’s a genuine crisis brewing and even then the story was being widely reported across the world while the British remained in ignorance. Never was a truer word said than when someone uttered “Some mothers do ‘ave ‘em”. They do indeed. After all, Queen Elizabeth II had the Duke of York. It is only fair to say that “Randy Andy’s” activities, though still damaging, were as nothing compared with Prince Harry’s compulsion to hurt his family. Until we see a drastic pruning of that monstrosity – how do they fit them all in? – accompanied by other bloated Ministerial teams incredulity rather than credibility will greet the Government’s every pious pledge.

Harry is a bit miffed to inherit a parrot from a great-uncle he’s never met, but Madison, the parrot, turns out to be a fun surprise. Madison is a brilliant bird that can help with homework, do crosswords, and share delicious recipes. Things are going peachy until the unthinkable happens and Madison is stolen. But so far – and this is the sore on the fair face of Government – we have heard precious little as to how the Government proposes to economise. I loved this book as a kid and recently unearthed my mildewed, yellowed copy from my parents' garage. So i figured I'd read it one last time before consigning it to the bin. It is understandable that Harry has been marked for life by what happened to his mother. Some of what the tabloid press did in the 1980s and 1990s, in an era of frenzied commercial competition was frankly deplorable.