PRINCE Harry is a good bloke, but it's time for some straight speaking.
What I have to say is blindingly obvious, yet everyone seems scared of saying it!
Harry's not very bright, and he is very gullible.
Now, when you're as rich as he is, that doesn't really matter, for while most people use their brains to make a living, he doesn't need to.
But when you're a prince you're easy prey, and you need more wisdom than Harry has to survive. So he needs help which he's clearly not getting.
If that doesn't change, his future is grim and as pathetic as those of Uncles Andrew and Edward.
Power
The truth is that the Establishment doesn't really care about Harry. It obsesses about William because it thinks he, and not Charles, will be the next King. So Harry gets left behind.
No one bothers, no one remembers and he knows that.
Of course, Charles loves and cares deeply about his sons, but he's a weak and indulgent father who's hardly ever there when they need him.
Kids should love their dads, but they also need to respect their views and accept their discipline.
William and Harry don't get close on either count because they know their father is frightened of the power they have over him. Diana's power.
Crucially, Harry missed his mother during his upbringing. And Diana—for all her faults—was a great mother. Yes, she spoilt her kids, but she was also very strict with them.
Would she be happy about her son staggering out of a sleazy club at 3am? Of course not, and she'd have done something about it. Before now!
The result of all this—the story about Harry and the photographer this week, seeing the pictures, and the Palace's reaction that it was all the fault of the paparazzi—gives a horrible sense of déjà vu. Diana is happening all over again.
On the one hand, Prince Harry loves the limelight his PR minders generate for him as the ‘new Diana' and he likes being photographed with African children with Aids. Harry genuinely hates the thought of his mother being forgotten and really does want to continue her work. But he hasn't got a clue how to do it, so relies on others to do it for him.
His father (who's paying for the people creating the image) loves it because it keeps Harry happy, makes him look like a good dad and it's a subtle way of connecting Charles with Diana.
But then Harry wants to turn off the tap of publicity when the image is less wholesome and his father starts blaming other people for letting him get into this situation in the first place.
Pity the poor policemen who sign up as bodyguards and who have to be substitute parents, then get dumped on by the Palace when anything goes wrong.
They were the ones that blew the whistle last time Harry's behaviour got out of hand. I wonder how long they'll put up with it this time.
Of course, Harry has a particular—and very understandable—loathing of the paparazzi. But why go to Pangaea in the first place?
It's one of the most notorious clubs for seedy people doing seedy things.
The cameras weren't there just for Harry. They were invited for the selection of second-rate celebrities, footballers and wannabes needed to keep places like Pangaea in business.
Where's the guiding hand in Harry's life to keep him away from places that spell big trouble?
Help
Harry's a great kid. The first time I met him he was 12 and we were sitting in the back of a car being driven to an airport by his father.
As the car stopped, Harry very politely asked me if I would carry his case of CDs for him because he had to shake the hand of some dignitary. Looking back, it's quite poignant.
Charles's staff knew Harry needed someone to help carry him after his mother died.
For many years some good women in Charles's office tried to do just that. They've all gone now. Who is there to do it today?
Perhaps it's a job for Camilla? What better way to endear her to the British public than helping Harry get back on to the track we all wish he'd never left.
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