Whether pro or anti royal, or an agnostic who doesn't care either way it's a life I wouldn't wish on anybody. You get lumbered with it by pure accident of birth and you like the Hotel California you can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave. Stepping aside like this pair have done may well make things worse for them as press interest in their lives is likely to increase rather than subside.
You can talk about the enormous wealth and privilege all you want, but those are by no means the be all and end all. Contentment and peace of mind trumps them.
I'm 'appy to be poor but 'umble squire, I don't envy them a bit.
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