If further evidence were needed of just how far the family bond has disintegrated, then look no further than this latest royal saga.
On what would normally be an occasion to celebrate new beginnings with the christening of a child, the reality couldn’t be more different.
Prince Harry and Meghan are understood to have invited the King, the Queen Consort and the Prince and Princess of Wales, to their daughter Lilibet’s intimate christening, but sources have suggested the royals were not given sufficient time to change their diaries, which are often planned months in advance.
But in any case, the idea that they would have attended is surely fanciful at best owing to the state of relations between the two sides.
How sad also that little Lilibet Diana - sweetly named after the late Queen and Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, and indeed her brother Archie, are not only growing up without a significant presence from both their parents’ families.
Harry and Meghan have run roughshod over the monarchy since they quit their royal roles after being told you can’t have your cake and eat it in terms of being a royal and capitalising on their global fame.
Just how much cake you need after exposing your family secrets and burning your bridges, in the process in exchange for millions of pounds from TV and book deals, only they can tell.
On one hand, it seems a particularly odd position to give your children the burden of titles tying them to the monarchy you were so desperate to leave behind.
On another note, it is perhaps further indication that Harry longs for a utopian relationship with his family and the role he was born into.
