Why do people see Prince Harry as 'young'?

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So many people say that about him all the time.

He's nearly 40? I don't know anyone who would consider that a "young man".

Do people have an image of him of early 20s or something in their head do you think?

Because she did much younger than average. Context is everything.

@GrinAndVomit very possibly.

Interesting how you cherry picked there.

...........and yet I have just got in from dropping a Christmas card round to friends, where I stayed for a cuppa. During the conversation, they were telling me something about having to see the Bank Manager, "who was a lovely young man". I happen to know the manager of the bank, he's 48 if he's a day.

Not sure where you get "Literally no-one" from - again, I suggest you widen your social circle.

It seems to be what happens with the youngest child. My youngest sibling is 31 and my parents still fuss around after him like he’s 17. He’s a fully functioning adult with no disabilities or problems and yet they feel the need to offer to sort out his home insurance and take his car the the garage. I swear they offer him more help than they did when I (eldest child) was 16. It’s very strange.

I think they pitch themselves to different audiences. Meghan and Harry want to come across as young; they are wanting to relevant to a younger audience of the Instagram, Netflix crowd as the hip new generation of royals reinventing the wheel, calling stuff out, speaking their truth, they are desperate to appeal the woke young crowd from what I can tell.

It’s the complete opposite with William and Catherine. W will be king before very long, they want to seem older and staid and traditional and dependable and mature and all those things.

It behoves both couple to seem almost a generation apart.

So true - they both look young and could be in their early 30s whereas Will and Kate could be very late 40s.

Because he acts like a teenager.

I think Meghan is very attractive but I don’t think she looks young. She looks her age (that’s not an insult).

Because the only people that eat up all this bullshit from the press are the people who still read it.

Because he's a male in the royal family who still has some hair?

He’s a week younger than me……. I’d like to think he’s young 🤣

That photo of him supposedly receiving a text from William and showing it to his wife - he looks like a sulky 10 year showing something to his mum. He is a man-child.

Because we don't really know him, until the documentary we only knew what the media have shown us. Our image of him is a bit stuck in the past.

Oof that's probably true. I can't see William as young because he's changed so much since he was 20. Harry has not changed so much.

He likes to portray himself as “young” or he liked to. Now he’s had children and met Meghan he still thinks he’s “young” but matured since he’s had kids and got married.

because he and Meghan seem to think of themselves as very young? I've only seen the trailer (or it might have been an except) of the doc when it came up on a newsfeed but it was of her narrating "this is the story of a girl who some people called an actress and a boy who some people called a prince....the boy and the girl fell in love" (or something). I was thinking, hang on didn't you meet when you were in your mid/late thirties, just say a man and a woman ffs!

Agree he also seems very immature - kids are always seen as self-centred because they lack the emotional ability and life experience to put themselves in other people's shoes and emphathise with them/consider different points of view. most people gain that as they get older. With H&M they seem very in tune with their own emotions in a californian guided mediation 'my truth' kind of way but very very bad at seeing anyone else's POV, or even just assessing something objectively. e.g. the complaints about prince charles cutting him off financially and the MET not providing security - his concern about needing to pay for protection for his family is of course valid but most people would also understand why it wouldn't be appropriate for someone no longer living in this country and being a working royal to continue to get the pay and benefits of one, plus the optics to the general public of a multi-millionaire whining about daddy no longer paying for him during the middle of a cost of living crisis.

They also seem to express every thought they have in their heads without a filter (particulalry when contrasted to the Queen's famous reticence), which is if course, another trait associated with young children.

Meghan thinks she looks in her 30s but agreed with @WaddleAway she looks her age. considering the help she has of course she looks her age as she still wants to look nice and younger for Harry.

Compared to photos of her as a child/teen she looks quite different - makeup or?

Because he acts like a teenager maybe.

I’ve worked in care for elderly most of my working life and at 49 I’m still a “ young thing” 😁 to a lot of people over a certain age 38 is young

Because he is throwing the world's biggest tantrum! He's acting like a 5 year old. Extremely difficult to take him seriously or see him as an adult when his actions are at best teenage, but often more toddler like.

This

Yes, got to agree here.
He's very entitled and demanding of money, respect etc otherwise he'll throw his toys out the pram and spit his dummy out and tell all the family tales of when he felt wronged - except it's all entitled spoilt brat stuff. I want I want I want ... like a toddler ... and if he's told 'no' apparently he doesn't understand reasonings or won't tolerate ... bollocks!
MM on the other hand wants to be the top princess and was knocked off that ivory tower she built herself so is trying to be princess of America by telling tales of how crappy the British are are and how racist (etc) to build herself another ivory tower
They both belong in a playground