Harry and Meghan cannot escape their fate

Two weeks after Diana died, I was riding the U-Bahn in Frankfurt. Across the crowded carriage, a young woman took a single photocopied sheet from her bag with great deliberateness and began to read. A minute later she was quietly weeping. Craning my neck, I could see that the sheet was a German translation of the words to “Candle in the Wind ’97”, clipped from Bild (the dreadful German analog to The Sun), crumpled and soft at the edges. It was clearly not the first time she had read it. We got off at the same stop, and I lost her in the crowd. I have been thinking about that woman lately, because the son of the woman she was weeping over has come home. Yesterday, Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, returned to Britain after six years in Montecito, California. Let me declare my inte