In neither case is the spectacle edifying, but there we are. The Prince is fifth in line to the throne, and mercifully drifting out fast. Prince George is his great-nephew. Many families (as the Duchess of Cambridge knows only too well) have dodgy uncles. One shudders to think what the tabloid press would have done if it had got its hands on Uncle Theodore in Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop, let alone Uncle Giles in Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of the Time.