Deconstructing Harry

      Query: what's worse, Prince Harry's idiotic wearing of a Nazi outfit to a costume party, or that commentators worldwide still bother to assess his potential as a future King? Let's face it: Harry's cultural and political relevance, even if he did become King, wouldn't even be within shouting distance of his grandmother's or (more especially) his great-grandmother's, the royal family now reduced to little more than an upscale national version of Coronation Street. The royals seem more and more like caricatures than figureheads, and their relevance in countries as far afield as Canada and Australia seems dubious at best, reality TV personalities long before reality TV came to be. Now the lad will learn the life of his uncle, the condition of being an anachronism even before you're born. Come to think of it, that might end up proving his father's condition, too. No wonder the lad's acting out. I probably would, too.