By King George, I think she's got it!

A response to Prince Harry's foiled multimedia tour of duty

Marina Hyde (would the British pronounce that "Marine-r Hide"?) offers us this gem in Saturday's Guardian:

Harry, you're not normal, you're a prince. And this is war, not therapy. What the cringe-making Afghanistan stunt has shown us is that royal lives are still worth more than off-brand ones.

On the one hand, it was nice to see Prince Harry in a British army uniform, as opposed to one of Hitler's. It's a little bit like Pokemon, really. I'm hoping he'll give us a highly collectible Hutu warrior snap soon. Gotta catch 'em all!

"William sent me a letter," Harry reveals in an interview, "saying how proud he reckons that she [Princess Diana] would be."

Reading this makes you realise that the whole thing is as much about the emotional neediness of millions of civilians as it is about his.

They need him to trot out the obligatory line about our much-missed queen of hearts [visit this website - Ed.]; he needs to defecate in a hole he's dug himself and josh about Terry Taliban to feel "normal".

You can't help feeling the arrangement tends toward the dysfunctional.

Can we please just get back to shooting anyone who gets near the oil pipeline?