The strife of the sons of the English king Charles III - princes William (William) and Henry (Harry) - thanks to Prince Henry's love for the widest publicity (option: taking out dirty linen from the hut) finally became public knowledge.

Both the wives of the princes and the aged king himself are involved in squabbles: his son Henry intends to expose all the dirty underwear of the British royal house.

In a book of more than half a thousand pages called Spare ("Spare"), he painted, in the words of d'Artagnan, "all the horrors, all the abominations of the cardinal (i.e., his stepmother Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall), all the intrigues and state secrets."

So it would be more appropriate to call a slanderous book "I accuse" or "I cannot be silent."

In picturesque details (like the one that, when Prince Wilhelm beat Prince Henry, the latter fell on a bowl of dog food and injured his rear with fragments of utensils), there is a lot of entertaining.

But there is little new in the general intrigue.

"Days gone by jokes

From Romulus to the present day

they are about how brothers fight and cut themselves in the struggle for power.

Anecdotes from Harry about it.

After all, kinship, brotherly love, etc.

are different.

Cain and Abel were also brothers.

And even today, reading the criminal chronicle, we meet everything.

And this is without such a strong motivation as the struggle for the throne.

Whereas related squabbles, multiplied by lust for power, can incite a lot.

The brilliance of the crown (even if rather dim) is blinding.

The Catholic writer Francois Mauriac owns the following definition: "The bourgeois family is a tangle of snakes."

But let's be fair: the feudal family is no better.

There is a well-known Turkish custom, when the sultan who came to power first of all contrived his brothers as potential competitors.

The establishment is terrible, but not invented by the Turks.

It was the same in the Roman-Byzantine past.

Svyatopolk the Accursed, who killed his brothers Boris and Gleb, was by no means a Turk.

Just as they were not Frankish and Gothic kings and queens, who drenched their brothers and sisters in vain.

The fight for the throne is nothing personal.

Let us also recall the English XV century - the War of the Scarlet and White Roses, as a result of which both the Yorks and the Lancasters, the heirs of the Plantagenets, were completely mowed down.

The possibilities of Prince Henry, of course, are not the same, and the prize in the struggle is not the same.

Why compete with brother Wilhelm when the Boris Johnsons will still rule the kingdom?

But the zeal and readiness to do anything is no worse than that of the ancient princes of the 15th century.

“So you will believe in the transmigration of souls,” said Sherlock Holmes.

True, in the current “I can’t be silent”, in the readiness to spare neither father, nor stepmother, nor brother, nor daughter-in-law, there is one oddity.

Namely: the extreme stupidity of the wrestler.

Even the "monsieur", that is, Gaston of Orleans, who had been intriguing all his life against his brother Louis XIII and the cardinal, for all his lack of insight, looked like a sophisticated Machiavellian compared to Harry, who already looks like a complete idiot.

The high nobility tends to degenerate, but not to the same degree.

Having broken with all his royal relatives, he did not acquire anything at all, except for the glory of a fetyuk, submissive to the will of the Duchess of Sussex, that is, the African-American artist Megan Markle.

Moreover, the British monarchy has long been the subject of discussion.

On the one hand, a venerable relic, which, perhaps, will still show itself in a difficult hour.

In any case, it happens that a nation needs a person around whom it can rally.

And the personalities lately living in 10 Downing Street are such that it is better to go to some indecent place than to rally around them.

But Prince Heinrich, although a relic of the monarchy, is so little respected that you will inevitably become a republican.

Wherever you throw, everywhere is a wedge.

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.