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Back to reality

“There’s just as much truth in what I remember and how I remember it as there is in so-called objective facts.”

O SAYS PRINCE HARRY, and it’s lucky he thinks this because , where this profound philosophical reflection on epistemology can be found, has a number of rather well-recorded moments where the truth as he remembers it (hearing, for example, about the Queen Mother’s death in his room at Eton) do not stand up to the so-called objective facts (his actually being in Switzerland with his

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