Dear Prince Harry,

I hear you may be considering attending Yale University to study law.

There was a time when I would have urged you to do this; a bygone, glorious time when Ivy League university campus life was actually fun.

A time in which young adult men and women came together in academic, sporting and social harmony. They worked hard, played hard, drank too much, had wild sex (a lot) and even took the occasional substance that wouldn’t pass a tennis dope test.

President William Jefferson Clinton’s studied law at Yale, for God’s sake – even if he didn’t inhale.

But those days are long gone and how, can I put this, you are a young, single man who quite reasonably enjoys the company of ladies and the odd night of partying.

Future student? Rumors abound that Prince Harry may be planning to study at Yale. The young royal was pictured on Monday at a Commonwealth Service with his brother William and sister-in-law Kate

Reputation: Prince Harry is the lovable party prince but would he be able to stand the PC scrutiny of life as as American university student

And that’s a dangerous thing to be in an American university where the atmosphere is now so fraught and tense with political correctness that even contemplating doing anything remotely resembling ‘fun’ is an instant, shaming, life-ruinous thought process.

It’s a pity Jack Montague didn’t get the PC memo.

Last week, Yale’s 22-year-old basketball captain was expelled for an alleged sexual assault on a fellow, female student.

Yesterday, his lawyer issued a statement of Montague’s intent to sue the university.

It states that Montague and the young woman concerned had a consensual sexual relationship during the fall of 2014.

Four times they slept together.

On the second occasion, she entered his bed voluntarily, removed all her clothes and during the night woke him to perform oral sex.

On the third occasion, they had sexual intercourse.

On the fourth occasion, she joined him in bed, voluntarily removed all her clothes, and they had sex. Then they got up and went their separate ways. Later that same night, she reached out to him to meet up again, returned to his room and they spent the rest of the night in bed together.

The girl admits to all of this, apart from what happened on the fourth night. She says she didn’t consent to sex then, he insists she did.

Jack Montague (pictured left and right), who had led the Yale Bulldogs to the top of the Ivy conference, was expelled last month after a student accused him of sexual assault

ONE YEAR LATER, she reported him to university officials for sexual assault. An alleged sexual assault in which the victim – who is protected by anonymity – agrees that she left and then returned to her attacker’s bed.

As Montague’s lawyer says: ‘We believe it defies logic and common sense that a woman would seek to re-connect and get back into bed with a man she says forced her to have unwanted sex just hours earlier.’

You THINK?

It doesn’t just defy logic and common sense, it’s complete and utter baloney.

Yet inexplicably, the Dean of Yale accepted the girl’s version of events and ordered Montague to be expelled, a decision then upheld by the Provost.

It doesn’t just defy logic and common sense, it’s complete and utter baloney

Reaction to this was swift and furious.

Female students at Yale raced to denounce Montague as a sex monster.

Posters sprang up all round campus saying: ‘I stand with Yale women. End rape culture. Don’t support rapists.’

Montague’s basketball team colleagues showed solidarity by wearing T-shirts with his nickname ‘Gucci’ on them.

They were promptly accused of ‘supporting rape culture’.

To date, there’s been no report to police, and therefore no police investigation, no criminal charge and no conviction.

Yet Montague is now stained forever as a rapist. Convicted at the court of politically correct insanity currently sweeping American campuses.

We live now in an era when Kim Kardashian can bombard millions of complete strangers with naked selfies and is lauded, not least by herself, for ‘sexually empowering women’, but a young man’s glittering university career is ruined on the whim of a young vengeful woman who cries rape a year after an incident so ‘horrifying’ that she returned to her ‘rapist’s’ bed the same night.

I abhor rape and sexual assault as much as anyone. There are few more despicable crimes.

Under fire: Yale has come under fire for expelling Montague despite questions over the female student's version of events

But I also abhor the creeping criminalisation of legal sexual behaviour at the court of PC opinion, fuelled by spineless University chiefs.

This nonsense isn’t just restricted to matters of sex.

After attending a Mexican-themed party last month, two members of Bowdoin College’s student government are now facing possible impeachment.

Their ‘crime’? They wore sombreros and drank tequila.

Other Bowdoin students, and I’m not making this up, were even offered counselling if they felt ‘injured and affected’ by what had happened.

Michelle Kurk, vice president of student government, said: ‘It’s about casual racism and ethnic stereotyping and cultural sensitivity.’

Is it?

By coincidence, the very same night as the Mexican party, Bowdoin College hosted its annual administration-sanctioned ‘Cold War’ party where students were encouraged to turn up dressed in fur hats and coats. Some came as Josef Stalin, who authorised the slaughter of at least 50 million people.

So cultural appropriation is absolutely fine apparently, so long as you’re careful to choose the right culture.

This PC disease is not just a U.S. problem.

Students at Cambridge University in the UK last week cancelled a party themed on Jules Verne’s book Around The World in 80 Days because dressing in the style of another culture might cause offence.

What a farce.

In perhaps the most ridiculous example of dangerous PC absurdity infiltrating our global campuses, a brilliant scientist named Tim Hunt was last year driven out of his job as Professor of University College London’s Faculty of Life Sciences for cracking a ‘sexist’ joke to an audience of female journalists and scientists at the World Conference of Science Journalists in Seoul.

The PC police duly arraigned, convicted and sentenced him on selected quotes leaked onto social media from his speech, and his career was over faster than you could scream ‘ARE YOU ****ING KIDDING ME?’

A month later, a tape emerged which revealed the context in which Professor Hunt had been ‘sexist’.

Jack Montague's team have been accused 'supporting rape culture' in a series of posters and messages left around the university after standing by the accused basketball player

He said this: ‘It’s strange that a chauvinist monster like me has been asked to speak to women scientists. Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in a lab: you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticise them, they cry. Perhaps we should make separate labs for boys and girls?’

Then, he added: ‘Now, seriously, I’m impressed by the economic development of Korea. And women scientists played, without doubt an important role in it. Science needs women and you should do science, despite all the obstacles and despite monsters like me.’

At this point, loud laughter and applause could be heard.

In other words, he hadn’t been sexist at all; he was joking, and the female audience knew he was joking and appreciated the joke.

In fact, he was supporting women scientists, not mocking them.

Yet his career, reputation and life now lie in tatters.

Sexual assault is serious.

Sexual assault is serious. Rape is serious. Sexism is wrong. Racism is wrong. But so is PC-ism

Rape is serious.

Sexism is wrong.

Racism is wrong.

But so is PC-ism.

And right now, it’s out of control.

I want students to enjoy their university life, not be cossetted in a fake environment so preposterously obsessed with not causing offence that it stops anyone saying or doing anything which once constituted harmless fun.

So, Prince Harry, think very carefully before accepting any place at Yale, and then reject any temptation to do so.