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Harry was my favourite royal, after the Queen, for whom I have nothing less than complete admiration. She has done her job, a very dull one, impeccably since 1953. It is also the reason I’m falling out of love with her grandson: while he walks away from duty, she lived up to the commitment she made on her 21st birthday, before she became queen: “I declare before you all that my whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service.”

She accepted the responsibilities birth brought upon her and never wavered, even in the darkest hours of her reign.

Harry is turning his back on his birthright and duties for the woman he loves, like his great-great-uncle Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne for Mrs. Simpson. Interestingly, Edward is buried, with Wallis Simpson, in the Frogmore royal burial ground in Windsor, near the cottage of the same name, Harry and Meghan’s English home.

You may wonder why I care about the royal family. What I care about is constitutional monarchy, a political system that places stability, continuity and impartiality above partisanship: “A light above politics,” to quote the greatest conservative philosopher of our time, Sir Roger Scruton, who died last week.

Scruton also wrote in his seminal book The Meaning of Conservatism, “Monarchs are, in a very real sense, the voice of history, and the very accidental way in which they gain office emphasizes the grounds of their legitimacy, in the history of a people, a place, and a culture.”