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I expect the publishers wanted that angle.
Do you remember, Harry talked, a year ago, about writing a book about the man he has become, rather than the man he used to be, when just out of adolescence, and a frontline Royal. The publishers have obviously told him: "No. The public don't want that take on your journey".
The public can relate to a child losing their mother. Harry doesn't get it, that his extreme wealth - living in a 14 million dollar mansion - makes his adult struggle unrelatable. Ordinary people in the UK want a house too. They would take some pride in the home ownership that their working class parents achieved. Alas, houses were cheaper then, vis a vis, monthly income. Now, both parents work, and still spend every morning waking up with their closest friend, ' Worry'. They'd like to tell their children to work hard at school to get a good career, but they know they'd be lying to them. Meanwhile, Harry has found a great way to bring in the dollars: monetising his unique start in life.
A lot of people, like me, believe that the reason the Royal Family expect their members to be disciplined and hardy, is because they know that their lives are so much m easier and with greater privilege than the average Joe, in the street. The Queen had her pockets sewn up, reportedly, to stop her fiddling with them, on duty. She was told she had to train herself not to need the loo, when on important engagement. They put up with slurs in the press. A lot of people, like me, have read that it is their way of acknowledging that they ought to be hardier than the average citizen because, for them, surviving has been a breeze. In 1952, when Elizabeth ascended the throne, it wasn't, easy for most people. I had a sister who died as a baby in 1949, from an illness, curable with antibiotics.
Now, we will say, "Don't do the stiff upper lip thing. People don't see it as your way of showing you can be strong, because you have the resources to be able to do it, and out of respect to us". The Royal Family have had to learn what we, the public think, the hard way. Prince Philip.had a harsh childhood. We, the public, have said that we despise the mantra "Don't complain and don't explain." Only recently, have the establishment understood what we mean. Hence Charles's more emotional accolades to his deceased mother.
I wish Diana had not have died, but I also wish she had not gone off on a holiday jaunt, allowing herself to extend her vacation beyond the plan, and to put her security in the hands of a non-expert. I wish she hadn't taunted and enticed the press by telling them, weeks or days before her death, that something was going to change significantly, soon. Maybe she had intended to get engaged to Dodi - or to make some other change: who knows.
I think the Royal Family thought that getting the boys to follow the coffin was a way of keeping things going to respect the way the general public keep things going, in their own way, during adversity. They were wrong. But, I think they know that now:, and we know it.
The Royal Family is staffed by human beings. I'm glad Catherine, Princess of Wales, does the royal duties and then stays around, for the kids. I'm glad she's not off on holidays, on her own, making her beauty even more alluring and seeking to be the most gorgeous woman ever.
I'm sorry Harry had to walk behind his mother's coffin, but I'm also sorry that Diana didn't take more precautions to prevent herself stepping beyond the reach of the protection which her ridiculously and self-generated high profile necessitated.
I'm sorry to say it, but I think Harry was let down by his Mum, and he should try to eschew the high profile in the media, which
created so many of Diana's problems.