Prince Harry, notoriously not the most well-read of the Windsor family, quotes William Faulkner before his autobiography "Reserve". The first lines of a poem by the English poet Philip Larkin would have been more appropriate, which read: "They fuck you up, your Mum and Dad, they may not mean to, but they do" - in German: "They ruin you, your parents , not on purpose, but they do."

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