armchair psychologist alert.
I've watched the speech from last night and it was both sad and troubling.
H ( as I call him
) seems stuck. Stuck as a victim. There was a lot wrong with that speech ( not least the oddly inaccurate read out reproduced in the media) but what struck me most was the phrase ' as you have watched me grow up' .
Admittedly he was addressing the audience beyond the event, but he is now 35, a father, a married man.
Harry has been failed dreadfully in helping him come to terms with the death of his mother, who was herself, partly responsible for her own demise. That must be a near-unbearable truth for him. And also, by the way, for his brother, who let's not forget is a mere two years older than he was when she died.
There is a communication model called victim-perpetrator-rescuer
I suggest Harry is the first, he perceives the second as the media, and the third he perceives as his wife.
The first (Harry as victim) is correct. the second ( média as perpetrator) is in his own mind an inalienable truth, but in reality has been explosively exacerbated by the very actions of both of them.
I suggest he wrongly perceives M as his rescuer and his Mummy ( for whom he 'has waited all his life') I suspect that she has exploited that, probably even without knowing it.
And the réal rescuer?His very elderly 'commander in chief' and his estranged family, from whom he is , as we speak, jetting away.
It is all very sad.
He has behaved disgracefully, but my main sympathies remain with him. He is so very vulnerable.
Time will tell, I suppose. I do hope - genuinely - that it works out for them both.