Ingrid Seward, author of recent royal biography My Mother and I, notes that the late Diana, Princess of Wales was “proud of her Spencer heritage as is Viscount Althorp and as is Harry”.
“He is close to what he calls his ‘red aunts’,” she says, a reference to the family hair colour.
The Duke of Sussex, as he left St Paul’s, had a spring in his step. Launching into a walkabout, he fell into the tried-and-tested pattern of handshakes and snippets of conversation: “Very nice to meet you. How are you? Have you come on holiday?”
When one member of the public told him they were in London for a wedding, he turned to point at St Paul’s and joked: “Not in here?”
Shown the two cameras held by another, he exclaimed: “You’ve got two cameras? That doesn’t even make sense!”
He and the Duchess will fly to Nigeria for a three-day trip, also based around military veterans, arriving on Friday.
The image, as Harry leaves Britain once again, is still of a divided family.
The Royal family, as ever, will remain silent. The Spencers, by turning up, have said it all.