Can't help thinking King Charles is selfish

[Eieiom]

Standing back, looking at the Harry situation, I can't help thinking that Charles is the root of all the family toxicity.

He had an affair while married to Diana, which led to their divorce and much unhappiness on her side. After her early death, his children were obviously in a lot of pain. The remote parenting style of the RF probably did little to soften this.
He's managed to marry his affair partner and now he's cutting off one of his sons.
Harry just looks like a really hurt person acting out to me. In most families, they would just be tolerated and forgiven.
I think the RF look very cold.

@PrincessTeaSet It was racism.
But I am used to white people saying racism was not really racism.

Harry seemed to be ok before he moved to the USA. I'm not sure if he is happy or is hurt but I don't think his dad is the cause of his unhappiness if he ever feels like that.

If anyone else described their adult brother or son behaving the way Harry is, we'd all be telling them to go NC. Children have gone through far worse than him and excelled in life. I think his life of luxury gave him too much free time to stew on every perceived little slight and he's just become more and more angry. He an adult with the mind of a spoiled child.

I think he's a nasty person. The affair(s), the way his sons have turned out (Harry appears to have gotten therapy which they all need imo), his random little outbursts of petulant temper - he's toxic. I think most of them are.

So Charles married an inexperienced woman 12 years younger than him while maintaining a long term affair he had no intention of ending. And he's the victim?

If your son married a mixed-race woman and your family sanctioned racist commentary on her, and asked what colour the baby would be (which is fucking disgusting, as a mixed race person - we're not a colour chart) and he went NC - would you blame him??

This.

It’s a toxic family, monarchies always are. They have always contained fall outs and rivalries and factionalism, civil wars.

The British public seem dying to cling onto them though.

Harry was shutting up and playing the media game. Then he met someone he loved and who showed him a different world (for better or worse, depends on which side you fall) and he realised the situation he was in was damaging for him. He got his wife and kid out.

He was privy to more than we know, too - who knows how he was treated. You can see the "happy trio" photo ops where he's treated like a third wheel with Kate grinning like an idiot at him, and presumably he didn't want to be spending life accompanying two grown adults around doing phony meet and greets. He at least seems to want to work properly with charities, whereas the royals have minimal impact.

Because you knew the family intimately ? You were there? Or you read a book written by one person ?

@Eieiom
Agree.
I see Charles as an individual who was terribly damaged by the upbringing he was subjected to.

You’ve hit the nail on the head.

I would say this is exactly the reason KC wasn’t available to meet Harry this week.

So Charles is never going to meet Harry again? He has gone no contact with one of his sons?

Exactly if anyone should be going NC it’s Harry. His family are vile.

We’d tell them to get over to the stately home thread, but in this case they lived in’em.

Well there were photos of them on holiday with both parents. I'd take anything twisted Harry says with a massive pinch of salt!

Are you Harry or his spokesperson. It's purely from your perspective with which I don't agree.

Harry's vile - what's wrong with you that you can't see that?!!

Harry was talking about after Diana died.

Yeah it’s not as though he has 30 full-time-equivalent staff members in the Private Secretaries Office, including an equerry and administrative staff who could quickly re-arrange a part of his schedule for him!

Oh wait ….

Charles is absolutely a victim and a product of the institution. To think you can expect a different outcome of any child born within in (especially during a certain time period) is pretty much impossible. Any child would be.

Harry is only just beginning to break the mould (though he of course was not the first), but IMO he's still an entitled and self absorbed. Everything he and Megan do is a love letter to themselves.

I think the people responsible for the current situation are Harry and Meghan. I was all for Meghan at the wedding but I think she wanted to be a Disney Princess and the biggest thing in the Royal Family. She didn’t get that 90% of it is unglamorous and that she’d be in the supporting role. Their actions since moving to the states have been those of petulant children, not leaders of the nation. Yes he had a tough childhood but many kids do. I wish he’d never met Meghan. To come from a foreign country straight into the royal family is a tough gig for anyone, but as a royal spouse you need no ego, be like Kate or Sophie.

Agree @StarsHideYourFir3s

This thread is really good because people are being allowed to express their individual interpretations of events without getting hammered from either side! 😀👍

@Hairychops77892 But he is sooo busy. And William had a 40 minute engagement in the morning and had to get back for the school run. Harry just does not understand how busy they all are. How dare he think they might come to the Invictus church service or that Charles might have a coffee with him. Stupid entitled man.