A prince’s lament

With the torrent of news last week from Washington DC and London, it was possible to miss the poignant, almost heartbreaking, cry of a man who, with his carefree youth behind him, looks down the road ahead and spies the encroaching uncertainties of middle age and, it seems, the unending agonies of a troubled world.

It was Britain’s Prince Harry who, during a tour of charity projects in South Africa, told a student that he “often woke up and felt overwhelmed by too many problems in the world... Sometimes it’s hard to get out of bed in the mornings because of all the problems.”