To feel sad for Prince Harry

[OldManRivers]

Have been looking at the photos today of Harry in the car being driven from the airport in America back to his home. He looks so sad. It must be very difficult for him to attend a huge family occasion like that with his role drastically changed, and to see all of his family but now he's on the sidelines popping in so very sporadically.

Also I can't help but think he must feel sad to think his children won't grow up around their cousins, and extended family. Meghan doesn't have any family except her mother so they don't have any in America either.

Originally he and Meghan wanted to carry on being part of the royal machine and do appearances etc but also have some independence so it's not as though this life was their original plan, where it seems like they're sidelined and alienated. AIBU to think regardless of what's gone on it must be very hard for him to be in another country, away from his ailing grandmother who he is very close to, and feel like a bit of an outcast?

I can sadly see a divorce happening in the future. When the children are older and Meghan is completely self sufficient Harry and her will argue over his requests to take the children over to see their grandparents/uncle/cousins etc, and she'll have to deal with 3 people being connected to the UK, at the moment it's just Harry who has agreed to do as she wishes.
Harry must feel sad and if Meghan is aware of this the cracks will start appearing.,,

I have no strong feelings about Harry and Megan either way but I do think if you distance yourself both geographically and emotionally from your family then you can’t complain when you get what you said you wanted

The booing was out of order , although I didn't really hear it and I was watching the tv on Friday morning when they first appeared at St. Paul's. I wasn't listening out for it though.
It must have been a very tricky situation all round.
William was probably upset that they said all those things about his wife and dad on national tv in order to get out ' their truth' , but it's done now. Other Royals have had interviews and criticized 'the firm ' , but that attack on her was personal and most people would be upset by that.
If they made up , it would still be hard to get past it all and this new book might be explosive.
Maybe he is regretting it all a bit , but you make your bed in life and you lie in it.

I had every bit of empathy and sympathy for them and their situation until the Oprah debacle. You can’t insist you need privacy then spill your guts on the worlds biggest chat show.

It’s a crying shame that they’ve left so soon though. I was hoping for some nice family pics, seeing all the kids and cousins together.

He’s got what he asked for!

He looks normal. Nobody goes round smiling every minute of every day.

Also now his children are a bit older and at the point where it would be nice to have family get together where they all play together he must feel it - all the other cousins will be close and his won't have the benefit of those relationships. They have no family except Meghan's mum in America.

I don't feel sad for him. It's not like he's been banished for evermore. It's in his control if he wants to rekindle relationships.

I think you can see the cousins (Tindall/Phillips/Cambridge children) and the parents, have quite a good easy relationship with each other. I feel the Sussex children are missing out on that.

Agreed, you could see at the concert the other night that Zara's little girls were chatting away to Charlotte and George. Also Harry would watch that knowing they have taken his and his children's place.
He'll have moments of "what have I done?" "Is Meghan worth it?" "Does she really have my best interests at heart?"

I imagine he is a bit sad the children wont grow up close to cousins and second cousins but delighted they arent all over the press in the way Louis is as there is no way the press coukd be sympathetic to his children looking bored or whatever.

He is an Adult! The way he lives his life is his own choice.

He chose to marry a strong,independent woman he barely knew.

No feeling sorry for him here.

I was disgusted by the booing and felt sorry for the both of them on that one level. I also generally feel sorry that they both have had or maybe still suffer from such significant mental health issues. Harry seems to be someone who will never be happy or just content, it seems.

It was a funny old weekend. I didn't feel a huge sense of pride in this country, even though I don't mind the royal family. I can't get worked up about them in the way that some Republicans do. I think there were too many events and it was a bit overdone, and too many expectations on Her Maj to attend so much at her great age.

No sympathy here he burned his bridges

I feel sorry for anybody in the public eye (except politicians) as their whole lives are picked apart and scrutinised by people who don't know them and know nothing except what the tabloids spout.

So, you saw a photo of him sitting in a car? Caught a snapshot expression of his face and thought it worthy of some intense yet impotent speculation?

You have no idea what is in his head, none of us does, and to navel-gaze and feign sadness is pathetic.

There's a Royal board for this crap too.

I think he has burnt his bridges so badly that it will take a heck of a lot for trust to be rebuilt.
He's like the family gossip smile nicely at him but tell him nothing you don't want the world to know.

I would have thought the thing he would feel most sad about is his Grandma. She is looking very frail.

It's strange that one of my colleagues hasn't a good word to say about either of them , moving away , what a cad! They moved away from family for nearly a decade the other side of the world , but that's fine as they are not Royal.
It's the double standards that are weird, but a lot of it is also because they can't get over he fact he didn't marry a Katherine / Sloane clone type of person who would have toed the line.
He must be a bit lonely over there I suppose , but many people emigrate or move on and have to make new friends and just get on with it.
He made that decision.

Nope. He trashed his family, made awful accusations which he knows they can't respond too, so I think he's lucky to be there at all. Not one jot of sympathy and I don't think he looked particularly sad. Nobody smiles all the time.

No sympathy- the Oprah interview was so crass and below the belt!!!

"o it's not as though this life was their original plan, where it seems like they're sidelined and alienated."
They alienated themselves by slagging off the royal family.
That insane publicity stunt with Witney as well.

Did they expect to be welcomed with open arm,s and presents?
They made their bed they can lie in it.
No respect fir them

"the wearing of a racist brooch in her presence"
Grow up little snowflake

I feel more sorry for all the parents who are struggling to make ends meet, having to endure the daily grind and face losing everything when they can no longer afford to pay the mortgage.

I feel more sorry for the children whose parents can’t afford to feed them properly, and who face weeks and weeks of hunger during the school holidays. Who won’t ever get to experience a holiday, who won’t have anything to look forward to.

Harry had every advantage given to him. He made mistake after mistake after mistake. So no, I don’t feel sorry for him.

Doubt he wanted his mum to be hounded by paparazzi so much it caused a crash and she died while someone took press photos of even that moment....then he had to walk behind the coffin in front of the world when he was 8. What a bloody grotesque circus.

Then being scared to death it's happen to his wife who has been subject to endless racist abuse. I'm sure he wishes none of that happened and I'm sure it all makes him sad.

He's just protecting his family as best he can, and sadly if the racist comments made within the family are to believed, he's probably miserable as hell to feel an outcast from his family just because he married someone they didn't approve of.

This is true. They can’t be trusted. No doubt we will hear the Sussex side of this weekend at some point. It’s understandable if the rest of the family feel guarded about what they say and do around them.

I don’t know why people claim to know he’s sad. The only things we know for certain are that he moved to his wife’s home country and they gave up their jobs as working royals. So, I think, we can’t have a clue about how he’s feeling. If he appeared to look sad at the service, it’s more likely that he was looking serious as it was a formal event.