Poor, Poor Humpty Dumpty

"He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor."

"I landed on the dog's bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out."

"[William returned], looking regretful, and apologized."

Harry Windsor, Duke of Sussex

"She never wanted to deal with confrontation, even going as far back as the start of Prince Andrew's troubles, and this stuff [ongoing campaign by her grandson Prince Harry, to publicly shame and embarrass his family with allegations of racism and neglect of his psychological needs] was shoved in her face on an almost weekly basis."

"It had an impact. She had lost Prince Philip, and then the constant ambushing of the Royal Family by a much-loved grandson did take its toll."

"At that stage in your life and your reign, you just don't need that."

Unnamed familiar of the late Queen Elizabeth II

Given her advanced age, she was frail, all the more so with the loss of her husband of 73 years, a constant companion, emotional support, dependable stalwart and partner in life. The British Royal Family was often in the news. A series of maladventures and misadventures by one member of the extended family after another did no credit to the institution, and the welfare of the institution passed to Elizabeth through a a long heritage of royal rule on that Scepter'd Isle; the driving focus of a woman dedicated to her country and her role. Uppermost in her mind was the welfare of the state in her consciousness of the weight of responsibility that was left to her.

All parents, whatever their status, aristocrat or factory and farm worker, are interested in the welfare and future of their offspring, and she was no different. That she was pained by each and every event involving members of her family that shone a dark light on their legacy must have been deeply painful to her. That, in the last few years, one of her grandsons by her oldest son, took to the public airways to vent  his frustration and blame for his unhappiness with his place within the family was his human prerogative but a display of arrested-juvenile venom.

Pathetic complaints housed in his newly-published tell-all detailing his unhappiness that his older brother chose a bedroom superior in its lavish appointments and size than that allotted to him as the younger son, bespeak a mind brimming with negativity and victimhood seated within an entitled narcissistic temperament that does this mewling complainer no credit for human decency. His blemished personal account of 'disappointment' with his family leading him to tarnish them in the public eye may satisfy a childish wish for vengeance for perceived neglect toward him in his perception, but it also paints an unsavoury picture of a miserably immature man absent a conscience.

Interviews this man gives where he seems to relish blackening the reputations of those whose kinship failed his emotional neediness and the celebrity he craves, the lifestyle that seems to satisfy him, the valuable contracts being signed for his spiteful revelations that titillate the public emphasize the shallow intelligence of a muddled mind. One that has been easily manipulated by a woman whose own ambitions are being realized as an enabler of her husband's campaign of Royal vilification. Celebrity, riches and a lavish lifestyle; what more could anyone want in exchange for human compassion and decency deep-sixed?

Conflict between this psychologically wounded man whose viperous tongue and utter lack of shame has gained him an avid audience comprised of scandal-loving social misfits, celebrity hangers-on and ghoulish voyeurs that maintain high ratings for the video series the two deplorable sensation-mongers keep producing creates a pathetic scene of total dysfunction. Common enough to many families, but bearing a special whiff of comeuppance for a Royal family.  It is where the British 'stiff upper lip' has full play.

What is really confounding is human nature, eager to learn more about this man's campaign to blemish his family's stature. His revelations in his newly-published book, many of which are circulated  internationally in public news media, paint a portrait of a wholly unlikable, miserable mindset focused totally on self-absorption, decrying his welfare, and a silver-spooned upbringing that fulfilled all his needs yet failed to comfort his wounded spirit of victimized childhood, a period of personal evolution that has stranded him in arrested juvenile misery.