I'm not trying to obfuscate or go off on tangents, BUT, the coverage of the English Royal Family by the Australian tabloid press, made Days Of Our Lives look like a documentary.

Okay, I concede that unlike politics, you don't get elected into the Royal Family, either you're born into it, or you marry into it.

I remember hearing the story that Queen Elizabeth the Second had been overseas, and Prince Charles was only a little boy and he wanted to talk to his mother, but she shook his hand as she walked past the door to his bedroom, because the cameras were on her and protocols had to be followed.

Yes, the Royal Family has been subjected to claims that Prince Harry is not Prince Charles's son (a DNA test is the only way to establish that) and suggestions from conspiracy theorists that the royals had Princess Diana murdered, and the theories don't stack up.

And, here's something else to remember. The British Royal Family, not through bloodlines or marriage, has a connection to the Japanese Royal Family. When the Showa Emperor (lived 1901-1989, was Emperor 1926-1989) visited Britain, in 1921, as Crown Prince, he stayed at Buckingham Palace, and the Heisei Emperor Emeritus, eight years after the Second World War, attended the Queen's Coronation. The Showa Emperor visited Britain, in 1972, and was photographed in the Royal Coach. The Queen even asked the Showa Emperor's sister-in-law how her brother was, when the former visited Britain.

Here's something else to remember, the Danish Royal Family has a policy that the Crown Prince should marry a non-Dane. In the Japanese Royal Family, when a Prince marries, his wife becomes a Princess, but when a female member of the Royal Family marries, she leaves the Royal Family, and the Japanese Royal Family does not permit a Prince to marry a non-Japanese. As Crown Prince, the Emperor Emeritus of Japan was the first to marry a commoner. But if Prince Harry had been the younger son of the Emperor Emeritus of Japan, there's no way he would have been permitted to marry Meaghan Markle unless he left the Royal Family first!