Country Life

The Happiness Course

JUST as Family and Friends Divided had become Friends Reunited and the wretched Trump era laid to rest, Harry and Meghan gave their Oprah interview and a whole new Grand Canyon opened up again. This chasm really surprised me because my team was astonished to discover that I wasn’t on the Sussexes’ side.

I swear I did not come across all Piers Morgan. I didn’t say: ‘That was performance art, staged by two millionaires and a billionaire.’ But, even as I tried to exercise restraint, I could hear the disappointment flowing through the cables that lie under the ocean that separates us.

When I protested that the!’ fireball of the interview was made to Harry they were married, I didn’t bother to send an email. If there is one thing I have learned in life it is this: just let go.

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