Lets all feel sorry for the "Prince" and the "Princess".. A story has just broken on Sky raising concerns about the level of attention Prince William and Kate Middleton have received recently, culminating in a minor motorbike chase which obviously raised the ineluctable spectre of his mother's plight in Paris. The ever compassionate Max Clifford even voiced his incredulity and concern at the timing of this episode, surely the paparazzi have "learned their lessons", he laments.

Well of course a third of the population believe the paparazzi had very little to do with Diana's death, but aside from that, surely this 'celebrity industry' which Clifford is very much a part of, is to blame. We know being born into unprecedented privilege and fame comes at a price, and we know part of that price is intrusion. Small price if you ask me.

Apparently however, by invoking the 'Human Rights Act' which stipulates the right to a private life, of which Royals can avail themselves, they can have their cake and eat it. Great, can the rest of us use this new legislation to spare us the huge amount of time waisted on their sporadic intimacies and banal excursions.

Why on earth do we have a monarchy in the 21st Century? Surely this is the more profound question, perhaps William ponders it too, in the back of the limousine transfer from KoKo's, or is he more relieved he doesn't suffer from any form of epilepsy. Still I'm sure he and Kate won't find it too difficult to look on the bright side of things on the way back to the palatial surroundings of Narnia.