I am preparing a new life. I would like to change my current position. I want to be less involved in public activities. It is no secret that one day I want to live abroad.”
These words might sound attributable to a disgraced politician caught with his hand (or other appendage) in the cookie jar, but were in fact uttered by 60-year-old Prince Laurent of Belgium, marking him out as another royal who – like the UK’s Prince Harry – would rather get the hell out of dodge than continue to be subject to the whims of an overzealous, controlling institution.
