by Do you remember the parable of the lost son? The king should still be the head of the Church of England. Anyway, listen to me, when you heard that, but Christ told us about a man who had two sons, one of whom asked his legacy and went on the way to spend his money on loose women and a life of sin, just to determine that the money was in a dark state.
Based on the fact that his father’s servants had a much better life than he, he decided to throw himself on his father’s mercy and to accept one of the employees. When he was on the way, his father discovered him at a distance and ran him to meet him, suffocated him in hugs (I paraphrase), pushed him out into the best clothes in the house and killed the proverbial fat calf for a welcome party. When the virtuous older brother found out what happened, he was anything but pleased and stayed away in a park.
There are a few parts of them that could remind us of Prince Harry and the king, not to mention the prince of Wales, but the decisive part of the story is that I would say that the father discovered his child prodigy in the distance. He had searched for him, see her and ran him to meet him. There were no preliminary conversations, no peace agreement between the two parties, no prerequisites for terms … only unconditional love.
And here the company of the Parable parts is quite drastically with the royal family. Because over the weekend we may have been scared to hear about “peace negotiations” in London. Ukraine? We were wondering. Or maybe Hamas-Israel? No. It turned out that it was a meeting between Prince Harry’s communication person, a glamor -looking Meredith Maines and the King’s, the farmable former journalist Tobyn Andreae.
They had drinks in a private member club, the previously inconspicuous Royal Overseas League, in which they seem to talk about it. The word was that Prince Harry and the king could be ready for reconciliation after years of not speaking. But there are difficulties … Harry’s legal proceedings against the government on his security detail, when he is in the country, and the fear of the king that family matters should remain private instead of being shared with Oprah Winfrey.
What kind of family works in this way apart from an unnatural and dysfunctional family? What’s going on with Prince Harry, who simply watched in Buckingham Palace or Windsor or Balmoral and turned his father upside down to send a text to say that he is on the way. This is how normal people work.
Was he afraid that his father could be too busy to see him? That was the word when Harry was last in London. But what stops both of it to simply cut out the middlemen and women and only meet for a warm hug and a conversation. Is it difficult for the king? Or is it Harry? In any case, this patient situation is ridiculous and a shockingly bad example of the nation.
If the king wants to speak in public statements in one of his public statements in one of his public statements, then he could begin to compensate for his faulty son. And when Harry wants to celebrate the wonders of the family – one remembers these bad pictures of him with his little one on Father’s Day – he could also give an example by asking to see his father, who, as we remember, still remember sick cancer.
It may be a little pushed out to expect Prince William to join this love festival (in the parabola of Christ the older son was a sourth), but it is not too much to ask father and son to kiss and invent how a normal family would do. This is all that you expect that the windsors should start to change to behave like a real family, where we apologize and invent if we do things badly. A precise reading of the parable would bring both parties on the right track … unconditional love and forgiveness. Continue. Try it.
Melanie McDonagh is a columnist on the standard
