Prince Charles isn't happy with his little boy Harry and Harry's girlfriend wife Meghan choosing to #walkaway from playing royalty, so he's done what any respectably concerned parent would do and threatened to cut off Harry's allowance.

This has all the earmarks of another battle royale that we'll see in a Netflix series someday, cast as a 16th-century Game of Thrones.  That will provide all sides with plausible deniability that it's really about Charlie and Camilla and Harry and Meghan.

Oh, and Elizabeth.

Harry really should have been born either American or Irish.  That thick, shocking red hair is just too rude for proper male royalty.  It's easy to imagine Harry duking it out with Tom Cruise in one of those mick-on-the-make flicks for the hand of Nicole Kidman.  Harry just doesn't fit the template of your standard, stuffy English royal.

But then, Meghan's not your standard Duchess of Someplace-or-Other, either.  She's too good-looking, too shapely, too full of rambunctious life, and insufficiently impressed with royalty.  It isn't that she's too headstrong, but too American, and she seems set on Americanizing the redhead.  Poor girl.  She'll never get the accent right and is too ready to hop into a bikini and race Harry barefoot to the beach.

Piers Morgan would never approve.

Nope, it's a good thing for British sensibilities that Harry's more interested in Meghan than in princing around like his old man.  Charlie, remember, also had a good-looking, hot young wife who wanted to have fun and live more than she wanted to be a proper national symbol.

The world has simply outgrown the British notion of royalty.  That's both good and bad, or perhaps good yet sad.  No one I personally know would want that life for anything.  But I imagine that every woman who travels in Chelsea Clinton's circle would jump at the chance to be Duchess of Downton Abbey and then one day queen of England.  It's all how yer raised, kid.

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