Paris Hilton teaches Prince Harry a lesson

Paris Hilton's new memoir, Paris: The Memoir, is trend-buckingly unapologetic.

There is no privilege-acknowledging and there is no self-flagellating liberal guilt.

Paris Hilton isn’t sorry for her privilege, but for herself, either.

In a world where so much cultural currency resides in narratives of victimisation and oppression.

Both celebrities embody a peculiar type of celebrity: fame was guaranteed long before they did anything attention-worthy in their own right.

Both were notoriously troubled teens who responded to the pressures of a privileged upbringing by rebelling, often as publicly and messily as possible.

Both, too, experienced genuine trauma in their lives, the pain of which no amount of money could soften.

Yet, if someone had said 10 years ago that only one of these people would ultimately build a multimillion-dollar brand on the foundation of his or her victimhood — who’d have guessed it would be the Prince?.

Paris Hilton came of age at the same time as Nicole Richie.

She is almost exactly one year older than me.