The year just gone has hardly been a banner year for either the Duke or Duchess of Sussex, culminating in the humiliation of yet another publicist departing from their employment at its end. However, all of us hope that 2026 will be an improvement. Last weekend brought the potentially good news for Harry – although, perhaps, less so for the rest of us – that the litigious prince might yet have succeeded in his aim of being provided with taxpayer-funded police protection whenever he returns to Britain. If this is indeed the case, we can expect to see a lot more of him. Let joy be unconfined.

Those readers with long memories and the patience to trawl through the accounts of many lawsuits may recall that Harry tried, and repeatedly failed, to be equipped with bodyguards (who, it was suggested, might be members of the Met) on his fleeting visits to the country of his birth. The case appeared dead in the........

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