[Maru]

My feeling is he takes the trips in part so that later if the Royals do tank in public reception, he has an in: "Welp, I tried." He can always benefit feeding the media whatever they need to print papers and it gives him the ability to rewrite a narrative.. perhaps some of the other family are like this when spited, keeping media in back pocket. Hard to believe it is just him with that gene as he learned at least some tactics from somewhere, surely. Wasn't Diana like this?