One of the great mysteries of the British monarchy is the role of the courtiers, advisers and secretaries – and their influence on royal life. Prince Harry has now contributed to the enlightenment in his book “Spare”. And it’s fair to say that the Royal Counselors are a species apart.

The angry prince assigns the lords, because they are lords, to the animal kingdom and there to the category of insects. He distinguishes finely between the wasp, the bee and the fly. Three middle-aged white men with a keen sense of power and a penchant for “Machiavellian maneuvers,” as he writes. The star, for explanation, had insight into the Spanish version of the concoction.

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