Dealing with Harry, it seems, you must be prepared to take the rough with the smooth, which is, perhaps, too to swallow for William, Kate and Camilla.
Add to that the requirements of the Duchess of Sussex, who was never readily going to fit into a system where you must remember to whom you have to bow.
The King may feel he has big enough problems with his brother, Andrew, without additional difficulties with Harry.
Meanwhile, we shouldn’t get overexcited about the ups and downs of royal life. In recent years Prince Harry and his uncle Andrew have done little to advance the case for the retention of the monarchy.
Ian W Thomson, Lenzie.
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Prince Andrew face of a rotten system that must go
SNP has only itself to blame for UK wanting to sideline it
Labour do not have to shift to the right to win again
That’s rich – Elon and co. don’t care
Private islands. Expensive yachts. Designer rockets to space.
While the rest of us study closely price tags in the grocery, the world’s richest burn through fortunes for fun.
Behind magazine covers and Met Gala appearances lies a darker truth: empires built on exploitation.
From tech to fashion, luxury goods to fast delivery, some of the world’s richest people, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arnault, and Amancio Ortega, are linked to human exploitation.
Their extreme wealth means they could pay workers fairly and demand safe conditions.
They could lead industry-wide change. But they don’t.
Billionaires’ wealth is usually based on exploitation of the harshest kind, and is well documented.
But their vast lobbying and buying powers keeps them safe from accountability. Between them they could transform the lives of millions.
But behind the public facade; they really don’t care.
B. McKenna, Dumbarton.
Airport critique is flight of fancy
Flight Free UK is a charity which encourages people to travel without flying and wants people to sign a parliamentary petition demanding no expansion of UK airports because they create greenhouse gases.
Why was it given charitable status and thus taxpayers money?
It will achieve absolutely nothing, whilst the rest of the world ignores Net Zero.
Does Flight Free UK and its supporters not realise there are over 41,700 airports in the world and another 15 mega-airports under construction?
Australia, Ethiopia, India, Philippines, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam and five in the US.
The one in Saudi Arabia will cost £2.3 billion.
I’m sure supporters of Flight Free UK will help negate the additional greenhouse gases created by the construction and increased flights at these additional airports by eating less meat, buying an electric vehicle and heat pump, and obviously not flying.
Me? I’m off for a tender steak whilst sitting at my warm gas fire.
Clark Cross, Linlithgow.
Net zero not working IN a recent column it was stated that Labour and the SNP need to push back hard on net zero attacks from the Reform Party (“Why are Scotland’s Greens putting trans rights before climate change?”, The Herald, September 13).
Can I point out that many Scots with no affiliation to Nigel Farage or his party have raised the question as to how Scottish consumers can repay the £1trillion debt arising from the implementation of net zero projects by 2045.
Even John Swinney ditched the decarbonisation of Scottish homes once the debt increased fourfold to £130 billion, meaning Scots can never achieve net zero.
There is nothing but silence from Labour and the SNP over the increase in strike price for wind output detailed in Allocation Round 7 (AR 7) from £73 per MWhour to £113 per MWhour, which will increase the unit price of electricity by 5p/unit to around 32p/unit.
That will plunge millions of consumers into fuel poverty and enhance the cost of living crisis.
Time, surely, for a nationwide debate to ensure net zero projects are adopted according to the ability of Scots to meet the debt, instead of an arbitrary timescale that reduces Scots to penury.
Ian Moir, Castle Douglas.
Eager for beaver
I was amused to read about beaver reintroduction (“Locals invited to share their views on the introduction of beavers”, The Herald September 12).
Here in North East Fife beavers have made their way from the Tay to a nearby nature reserve, set up home and produced young, much to the enjoyment of local wildlife enthusiasts.
They have been seen on the River Earn and on the Eden near Cupar.
Whatever the issues around management of these interesting animals, it would seem they are controlling their own reintroduction very effectively.
Residents in Scotland can simply keep an eye on their nearest waterways around sunset, and wait for them to turn up.
Rev Catherine Collins, Ladybank, Fife.
Picture this… graffiti’s a gonner
A Banksy mural was obliterated from a wall outside the Royal Courts of Justice in Central London (“New Banksy artwork showing judge beating unarmed protestor is concealed at courts site”, The Herald, September 9).
This artwork could have raised a lot of money if preserved safely for posterity.
It captured a tortured moment in the history of protest movements; a bewigged, begowned judge with a gavel striking down a protester holding a placard.
The image expressed a distaste for unwelcome laws that repress legitimate cause for complaint.
Why was it scrubbed when it could have attracted plenty of visitors?
Either its disappearance reflected a lack of humour from the local council, or was touchiness from the Government, who forced the council to remove this pictorial comment about the strangulation of protest via legalisation.
Maybe it was just philistinism which triumphed.
Denis Bruce, Bishopbriggs.
Aaargh! It’s ‘a’
It may seem petty, but I’m fed up with mispronunciation of ‘a’ by TV broadcasters. An example being ‘a living room’ with ‘a’ pronounced like the word ‘wane’. When I was taught English, which wasn’t yesterday, ‘a’ was pronounced as in the word ‘pad’. So, to my way of thinking, it should be pronounced: “We had ‘a’ lovely day.”
Not, “We had ‘aaaa’ lovely day.”
Neil Stewart, Balfron.