BEING SECOND IN LINE FOR A THRONE, as indeed being runner-up for anything in particular, must be rather disappointing, as it invariably leads to behaviour that is abjectly beyond the pale even according to the lax standards of human decency displayed by the current dynasty forming the royal family of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
THE BEHAVIOUR OF PRINCE HARRY in our former colony of the United States of America, to take a readily available example, when playing pool naked in Las Vegas in the company of ladies to whom he had not been formally introduced at Court, has become so commonly expected that it was no doubt at the base of the 2014 Fox network television entertainment show called "I Wanna Marry Harry".
GIVEN THAT I BELIEVE FEW of those who occasionally read what I write will know of this "reality show", as the children call these productions nowadays, I feel it necessary to point out that it involves bringing twelve young ladies described by the makers of the programme rather like Indian food, as "hot" and "tasty", to meet a person they imagine to be Prince Harry. "Prince Harry" then spends "quality time" with each of these empty-headed girls, trying to find out how much like a good curry they are, before revealing he is in fact not Prince Harry to the girl he finally chooses.
THE SHOW IS OF LITTLE interest other than to demonstrate how it is possible for these ladies, and, by implication, the audience of this absurd afternoon television show, to believe that a royal prince of the United Kingdom might feasibly get himself involved in "recruiting" ladies to see who is the "best kisser", no doubt among other skills, before proposing marriage. The depths to which the image of our royals has sunk.
DEPTHS, WE SHOULD REMEMBER, which have been plumbed in the past by a previous second-in-liner. We are now seeing how a court case in the United States may end up involving Prince Andrew as a participant in underage sex events bordering on rape. Andrew has, of course, "form". His relationship with New York actress Kathleen Dee-Anne 'Koo' Stark had to be broken off when it was discovered and revealed that she had made a lesbian sex shower scene in the 1976 film "Emily".
SENSIBLE THINKING GENTLEMEN might consider that Andrew was clearly on the right track in this choice, perhaps being able to spend evenings reliving the scene with his new bride instead of ending up with the toe-sucking, corrupt Sarah Ferguson, whose main claim to fame is that she has brought a bit more ginger to the royal family. But now we see that our present Duke of York has been embroiled in what looks like a legally complex sex-and-money scandal and once again we should look to history to see the lessons no one ever seems to learn.
NEW YORK CITY was so named in honour of James, Duke of York, a second-in-liner who unexpectedly became king to disastrous results. All historical reports suggest he liked spending his spare time entertaining a variety of mistresses. He was often insulted and once called "the most unguarded ogler of his time", with Samuel Pepys lamenting, when visited by the Duke, that he "did eye my wife mightily". Nothing really changes.
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