Whenever you read about the latest international escapade of Prince Harry’s, it is hard not to think of the famous words said about the Scarlet Pimpernel, the evasive hero of Baroness Orczy’s novel:
‘They seek him here, they seek him there
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere
Is he in heaven or is he in hell?
That damned elusive Pimpernel’
‘Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Travalyst Founder’, as he was so grandiloquently billed by his hosts, delivered a brief speech that was the usual mixture of buzzwords and clichés
Swap out ‘Frenchies’ for ‘international news media’, and ‘Pimpernel’ for ‘Duke of Sussex’ and you’ve got a pretty good insight into the constant fascination with the activities and actions of the king’s youngest son. And it is surely no coincidence that, just when his father heads to Canada on a high-profile and diplomatically important visit, the not-so-damned elusive prince himself has popped up in China, of all places, in what is apparently his first ever visit to that country.
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