Britain spurns the Harry and Meghan pity party and strikes a blow for freedom

What a rotten week Prince Harry has had.First he found out that British taxpayers wouldn’t be footing the security bill for his trip to the UK.This meant Meghan and their two kids, Archie and Lilibet, had to stay home in Los Angeles as “H” jetted around Britain to promote his Invictus Games.Sorry, Your Highnesses, but we Brits have better ways to spend our hard-earned money than on bouncers for two preening ex-royals.If we can dine out without government-funded heavies watching our backs, so can you.Then Harry was refused a room at Buckingham Palace because, palace officials said, he responded “too late” to their invitation.Oof — things must be rough between King Charles and his prodigal son.Buck Palace has 775 rooms and not one could be spared for the ginger whinger, as our tabloids call Harry.Then came the prince’s most devastating blow: He lost his long-running legal battle with Associated Newspapers, publishers of the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday.And he lost in spectacular fashion.Harry and some celeb chums had accused the Mail newspapers of gathering information about them “unlawfully.”But the judge threw out every one of their claims, ruling they had categorically failed to prove their “suspicions” that the Mail had hacked their phones and bugged their homes.Harry and his pals have been left with an eye-watering $67 million legal bill.And he won’t even be able to drown his sorrow at the drinks cabinet in his dad’s sprawling palace.But don’t feel sorry for him.His court humiliation is a momentous victory for freedom of the press — and a brutal defeat for the tyrannical self-pity of celebrity narcissists like Harry and Meghan.The prince famously hates the British press, in part because of what he sees as its “hounding” of his late mother, Princess Diana.He had been preparing his case against Associated Newspapers for years.When it finally came to the High Court in London in January, the BBC hailed “Harry’s war” on the...