It can be hard to muster interest in modern royal families, what with all the propriety, protocol and dreary hereditary privilege, though I did find myself briefly rooting for newcomer Meghan Markle last week, in light of the embarrassingly budget Ukip girlfriend racist text scandal, which played out like a Channel 5 version of House of Cards.
Still, the Dutch have come up trumps with the news that Hugo Klynstra is to become His Royal Highness Prince Carlos Hugo Roderik Sybren de Bourbon de Parme, after a long legal battle in which his father, Prince Carlos, romantically claimed that Hugo was the result of a “no-strings-attached” relationship with a promise of no family entanglement. Sure, Hugo may have daddy issues for life, but at least the whole sorry saga is more intriguing than the cost of Prince William’s new buzzcut.
