Turns out he's been a national hero all along.

He's been doing what all royals worth their palace have done since Harold took all three points at Stamford Bridge and spent the last few weeks bringing Johnny Foreigner down a peg or two.

Personally, I'd have preferred it if he'd have got a gang of marauding old Etonians on horseback and invaded Scotland to put an end to this devolution nonsense.

But the Taliban's as good as any target to stick one on.

Or at least that might be what I believed if I was inclined to agree with the British media right now.

Is it me or – with all this talk of heroism and Young Wales having a jolly time until his fun was spoiled – did someone forget to mention that, actually, war's a bit rubbish, isn't it?

Especially when it's your money that's funding the aggressive occupying force.

People die. Lives are ruined. Landscapes get destroyed. It's just generally pretty uncivilised.

So I understand anyway.

I'm relying on hearsay, here, because, unlike Harry, I've never been in a war zone and – also unlike Harry – I hope it stays that way.

I wouldn't be any good handling a piece of military hardware. I can barely work my kitchen blender without losing a finger.

No, words are my weapon.

Not as impressive as a Typhoon F2, for sure, but they allow me to battle with a vicious overdraft.

Well... perhaps "battle" is overstating it a bit, but they allow me to put up a staggered retreat each month.

And perhaps "words as weapons" is overstating it a bit too. But if you need 300 words on a burst sewer, I'm cocky enough to believe I'm as good as the next man.

Unless the next man is Ernest Hemingway or someone. But he doesn't count because he doesn't live in Calderdale. And he's dead. And he spent his early 20s in a war zone so he probably has more in common with Harry than a hack on the Courier anyway.

There's a bottom line here somewhere and it's this: some people fight stupid wars and some people write stupid words, and both those things can bring change.

Little is changing in Afghanistan. Other than citizens and leaders want British troops there less and less.

Farmers still grow opium, women are still second-class citizens, ultimately Taliban officials – now under a different name – still hold positions of power.

So instead of cutting secrecy deals with the MoD, maybe the British media should have told them to stick their Typhoon F2 in the hanger and printed the following words: "Harry has been dispatched to Afghanistan when, in actual fact, none of our troops should be there."

Maybe then we could have seen change.