By eschewing living in Buckingham Palace and suggesting ‘the firm’ be heavily scaled back, the prince has a survival plan that might workThis was a good week to bury bad news. But why bury good news? No banner headline announced that the Prince of Wales is to move house. He is to go from Adelaide Cottage in Windsor Home Park to the nearby Forest Lodge.That was not the real news. “Sources” said the switch was the outcome of Prince William’s “brutal” past year, in which both his wife and his father, King Charles, received treatment for cancer. This had led him to ponder the future of the monarchy, no less. He means to “reshape the institution he will lead … to be fit for purpose in the modern era”. Continue reading…