“They used to stay up until all hours partying and having fun.
“She wasn’t particularly suited to royal life with all of its rules and regulations and protocols.
“She enjoyed the privilege and the things it afforded her, but those restrictions really were quite damaging to her, I think, and for a large part of her life she wasn’t all that happy in the Royal Family.
“Mustique was that place she could go and let off steam, enjoy everything about life and not have to worry.
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9th March 2021
In normal times, when the whole Royal Family marches on to the balcony of Buckingham Palace at big events like Trooping the Colour, we’re greeted with a wall of Windsors, many of whom are HRHs. However, it’s not the easiest to work out who gets that style and who doesn’t because proximity to the throne doesn’t translate to automatic royal title.
Who gets an HRH and who doesn’t is all down to the founder of the House of Windsor, King George V. On December 11
th 1917, he issued Letters Patent restricting the use of HRH and also sweeping away a whole host of royal styles, including Serene Highness and plain Highness. His decisions that December still rule the Windsors today. Here’s what it means in a modern context.
Prince Harry and his mixed-race wife Meghan have claimed that the British royals were worried how dark their son's skin might be, during a potentially damaging US TV interview in which she also said she had suicidal thoughts after being hounded by the press.