Next year the Invictus Games, the sporting competition for wounded veterans that Prince Harry launched more than a decade ago, is to be staged in Birmingham. And he is planning to fly in from California to be there.It’s reported that he is also coming here next month for a series of promotional events.All with the support of King Charles, who hopes the Games will be a great success. Jolly good.Harry wants to bring Meghan and their children Archie and Lilibet with him. There’s always been a sticking point though, something he made clear in an interview last year when he said: ‘I can’t see a world in which I would bring my wife and children back to the UK at this point.’That sticking point is security for him and his family – and he made the comments after losing a legal battle to ensure he would be given it whenever he visited this country, courtesy of the taxpayer. Yet this week my colleague and royal expert Richard Eden revealed that Harry would be offered police protection on his visits where Invictus-related events are concerned. Which could mean he’ll bring his family with him next year.The Games are a deserving cause and by far the most respectable of the charities he has left. But why on Earth should any of us pay a penny so that he can swan about with security at taxpayers’ expense?It is true that many members of the Royal Family get protection paid for by the state but only if they are working royals carrying out public duties.But Harry is no longer a working royal; he’s given up his royal privileges so that he and his self-aggrandising wife can monetise their connections with the monarchy by launching spiteful and vicious attacks on the institution and his own family. The idea that we should be asked to pay for the errant Harry to return alongside his selfish wife Meghan will only fuel taxpayers' anger, writes Amanda PlatellIt is beyond outrageous for him to expect us to stump up for him.What is more, it will only damage the monarchy if we do. The Royals are in a highly precarious position. The recent report by the National Audit Office into their privileged living arrangements, showing they pay peppercorn rents to live in palaces – if they pay anything at all – will have infuriated countless millions struggling with high rents and increasing mortgages.The idea that we should be asked to pay for the errant Harry to return alongside his selfish wife Meghan will only fuel their anger as well as the republican cause.King Charles is a kind man. He must be heartbroken by Harry’s self-imposed exile and the fact he has never seen his grandchildren Archie and Lilibet. Little wonder he’s so ready to express his support.But that support must not mean taxpayers funding Harry’s protection. And I believe the King should expressly say so.Otherwise the Royals risk coming across as tone deaf, basking in their privilege at a time when Britons are struggling in a cost-of-living crisis.The Government has already committed as much as £26million in public funds to support the Invictus Games, via the Office for Veterans’ Affairs. And we should not begrudge them that sum.But it is all the more reason for us not to fork out any more for the privilege of having Prince Harry, his wife Meghan, and their children on British soil.If they want to come here, they should pay their own way out of their diminishing Netflix millions. Or else just stay away.Although a visit by them might allow us a precious glimpse of Archie and Lilibet’s faces, which have been absurdly kept out of public view. Could that be the real purpose of Harry’s visit, another Netflix documentary this time revealing the faces of their children?As their reputation palls in America, I wouldn’t put it past them. Perhaps it’s the only ace left up their sleeve.I am a staunch monarchist – but my loyalty has been sorely tested in recent times. For me, a security detail funded by the taxpayers could be the last straw.Film's Lo on laughsNo wonder Jennifer Lopez is desperately promoting her new romcom Office Romance. She needs to as it is – spoiler alert – utterly devoid of romance.The C-word is used repeatedly, as is ‘f******’. Her love interest Brett Goldstein is as sexy as a deflated football and her orgasmic moments are unconvincing as her face can’t move any more.And the scene when he gets aroused just shaking hands with J.Lo might have been funny once – when the same joke was performed by Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy in Anchorman in 2004.Say what you like about twice-divorced ex-Match Of The Day host Gary Lineker – and I have – but it is depressing that a hot 65-year-old man like him says he will never re-marry and can’t even imagine living with a woman again. Maybe that’s a blessing, though – how could any woman fit into a home filled with that gigantic ego? Westminster: The view from abroadWhat must the world think of the UK when Defence Secretary John Healey, a Labour loyalist, quits and accuses the Government of so underfunding our Armed Forces that we are no longer in a position to defend our nation in this terrifying world?Particularly when we will spend £333.7billion this year on welfare, putting benefits before bullets.How can we call ourselves a civilised society when an asylum seeker allegedly tries to behead someone in the street, leading to rioting?And when will our leaders acknowledge the protests were ignited by anger over unchecked migration and a system that puts refugees before residents? Taylor Swift at the premiere for Toy Story 5In a world of violence and fear, is there not something wonderfully uplifting about a star-struck Taylor Swift at the premiere of Toy Story 5, for which she wrote a song, giving a VHS tape of the film she had as a kid to Tom Hanks (Woody) and Tim Allen (Buzz Lightyear) to autograph?It may not have taken us to infinity and beyond, but in this dismal world it was certainly a ‘reach for the sky’ moment.Slim-line Serena's a smashWonderful to see the once Amazonian but now staggeringly slim mum of two Serena Williams, 44, return to Queens Club.She had to withdraw after doubles partner Victoria Mboko was injured. But it was a win all round as millions got to watch the greatest female player ever and she got to promote health company Ro – credited with her 34lb weight loss and backed by her husband.Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford’s £10million divorce fight is heading for court, him wheelchair-bound after a stroke and in debt to HMRC and her making a fortune from an online fashion empire. Whatever happens, betrayed Ruth can console herself knowing it is Eamonn’s girlfriend Katie Alexander who’ll have to care for him. Explaining his rise to hot-sauce entrepreneur, Brooklyn Beckham, 27, says he’s been so busy perfecting his sauce he hasn’t worked in five years. Someone tell this soft lad he hasn’t actually worked a proper day in his life – having spent it sponging off the family name.Rugby League’s Kevin Sinfield is to be knighted for raising more than £11million for research into Motor Neurone Disease in honour of team-mate Rob Burrow, who died of the disease. Jolly good. But how about a posthumous knighthood for Rob for bravely going public about his illness and highlighting the need for research?Take it as red... Three Lions will flop Declan Rice has caught sun since joining his England team mates in the USEngland midfielder Declan Rice is chastised by his mum for getting sunburnt and appearing embarrassingly red-faced in his promotional pictures for the World Cup.As a long-suffering fan, I fear he’s not as red-faced as the rest of the Three Lions will be when England crash out, having so far ‘distinguished’ themselves with a 3-0 victory in a friendly against Costa Rica who haven’t even made the World Cup, and a 1-0 win against New Zealand, the lowest ranking team in the tournament.Councils warn England footy fans not to hang St George’s Cross flags on public property in a bid to ‘maintain a welcoming and cohesive community feel’.No problem, just put them on your cars, and hang them in pubs and your home, as I certainly will. Flying the national flag cheers all of us while we still have a tiny sliver of hope of bringing the World Cup home.Joy amid the tearsIn Channel 4’s documentary Jon Snow: A Last Big Story, the news presenter movingly reveals he still finds joy in life with his wife Precious and children – despite his Alzheimer’s.That’s why many of us who have been through the disease with a loved one hate the Alzheimer’s Society’s Long Goodbye campaign which says: ‘With dementia, you don’t just die once. You die again and again and again.’ Many folk including my Mum had years of half-being with us, but often filled with laughter, nonsense and joy.Bizarre that the US refused entry to Somali football referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan, due to officiate at the World Cup. Maybe doddery, migrant-hating Trump, who is 80 tomorrow, got confused and said: ‘We already have too many Somali referees in this country!’ Instead of refugees.