Harry's 'candid remarks', I suspect, are a deliberate if somewhat oblique rebuke of the Queen and Prince Philip. Can anyone doubt that, as he and William matured, they came to understand how badly their mother was treated by the House of Windsor. It was their grandparents who aided and abetted that shabby treatment - first in life and then in death.  

Normalcy, however much he pines for it, is not something Harry is likely to find in a gilded cage - something his mother learned the hard way. The 'British public' might or might not 'need .... the monarchy' (that's for them to decided), but my guess is that after 150 years Canadians could get by without it. 

I'm all for strong commercial, cultural and trade ties between Canada and the U.K. Given our histories, we're a natural fit. But I don't see a shared monarchy as a healthy, let alone essential element in that relationship. Like William and Harry, we're fully grown now and it's time we embraced our own identity.