Real-life anguish or confected entertainment? One thing is clear \u2013 the soap opera endures because millions still love to watch it<\/p>\n
Well, isn\u2019t this a plot turn? You switched on for the latest cinematic episode of Prince Harry fights the fight \u2013 not against the Mirror this time, not against Murdoch either, but against those who have stripped him of his security protection \u2013 and then the script goes to places that no one expected.<\/p>\n
He loses<\/a> his legal challenge in the court of appeal over the degree of security he is entitled to on the public purse while in the UK \u2013 that was pretty much expected. But then, in the second instalment of Britain\u2019s longest-running potboiler, he exclusively opens an anguished heart<\/a> to the BBC, post the appeal court verdict, and all sorts of dramatic twists ensue.<\/p>\n Hugh Muir is a Guardian columnist<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Real-life anguish or confected entertainment? One thing is clear \u2013 the soap opera endures because millions still love to watch it Well, isn\u2019t this a plot turn? You switched on for the latest cinematic episode of Prince Harry fights the fight \u2013 not against the Mirror this time, not against Murdoch either, but against those … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}