The king could have been forgiven if he allowed himself a small, rueful smile as the Prince of Wales gave a reading on the spirit of togetherness at the royal family’s Westminster Abbey carol service hosted by the Princess of Wales this week.
Hours earlier, a recalcitrant Duke of Sussex had torpedoed any sense of that spirit within the family fold. Now Prince William – the embodiment of the institution according to brother Harry – found himself reciting their late grandmother’s 2012 Christmas message on that very theme.
