Harry and Meghan are not short of bathrooms

Harry and Meghan bless them have bought a house in Santa Barbara which has 16 bathrooms. Now I believe it's always a good idea, if you can afford it, to have a couple if not three bathrooms if you have a medium-to-large family to avoid the interminable wait outside the loo door when a member of the family is inside trying to complete a Sudoku. But 16 bathrooms!!! Now I appreciate that being a prince means you come from a long line of multiple bathroom owners. Buckingham Palace, for exampe, has 78 bathrooms. But then Buck House has a total of 775 rooms and they are often filled with frightfully important visitors and their flunkies. But Harry and Meghan have truly gone to town with their house purchase. It has nine bedrooms, more than enough to invite a near-neighbour Oprah Winfrey over with all her cousins. The mansion to be the new home for the prince and his Hollywood wife cost more than $14.5 million which we are told breathlessly by local estate agents is a snip because the previous owner had wanted $34 million. It has everything a young couple needs these days: large swimming pool, tennis courts, gymn, games room etc etc. I would say that's a touch more upmarket than their previous residence at Frogmore Cottage in Windsor Great Park, although even that property apparently had ten bedrooms. The point of all of this is that their purchase of what is called The Chateau in Santa Barbara makes their break from the Royal Family and from us lot still living as subjects of Her Majesty the Queen in Great Britain even more permanent. There is no going back and that makes me sad and probably will eventually make Prince Harry very sad and homesick as well.