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Is Harry Maneuvering To Be King?

A new poll pegs him as the second most popular royal, shocking our Brexit Diarist, even if the prince is a long way back.

AP/Peter Dejong, file
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, duke and duchess of Sussex, visit the track and field event at the Invictus Games at the Hague, Netherlands. AP/Peter Dejong, file
STEPHEN MacLEAN
STEPHEN MacLEAN

“Prince Harry voted second most popular royal to succeed King Charles, in shocking new poll.” Shocking, indeed. Ostensibly, it was not the intent of either the headline writer or the reporting it was signaling to pull some kind of April Fool’s gag, however absurd. And, to be clear, Harry polled a distant second.

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STEPHEN MacLEAN
STEPHEN MacLEAN

Mr. MacLean, a Nova Scotian who has blogged under the rubric of the Disraeli-Macdonald Institute, is a contributing editor of The New York Sun. He is also the author of our Brexit Diary.

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