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Harry’s latest interview - I want my father back

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Rinoachicken · 02/01/2023 12:22

news.sky.com/story/prince-harry-says-he-wants-his-father-and-brother-back-as-trailer-for-tv-interview-is-released-12778357

Think that ship might have sailed…and sunk!

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bakalava · 02/01/2023 12:44

Sadly, this is a very common line to put out. He wants them back but not unconditionally. He wants them back on his own terms or more precisely, the terms put together by Meghan which involve doing things to her approval and handing over large wads of cash to them. It is not as heart wrenching as it sounds and definitely very complicated and has emotional blackmail/manipulation written over it. The royal family need the help of a qualified professional. I am not talking about lawyers.

IcedPurple · 02/01/2023 12:44

I wonder if the same people who criticised Camilla for attending the same lunch as Jeremy Clarkson days before his offensive article was published will also be so disdainful of Harry giving an interview to the channel which pays Jeremy Clarkson millions a year?

IcedPurple · 02/01/2023 12:46

Maireas · 02/01/2023 12:42

I hope that there will actually be an interview, that is a journalist questioning, looking for more, rather than just agreeing. Anything in magazines/podcasts/Netflix/Oprah whatever has gone completely unchallenged.

This is the same person who did the 'not many people have asked how I am' interview, so I doubt it.

Every question will have been approved in advance, and I also expect that Harry will have requested, and got, the right to preview the final interview before release.

Georgeskitchen · 02/01/2023 12:47

Nothing was really revealed in the netflix pity party. "William shouted at me"
About what?
"Charles lied to me"
About what?
Someone questioned the colour of Archies skin. Who?
What did william say in his text after the Oprah carcrash that was so shocking?
I think if the RF do agree to a meeting as H&M wish, they would be well advised to record everything, by audio and video.
Just so there are no "misunderstandings "

AngelicaElizaAndPeggy · 02/01/2023 12:47

Well if you lot would stop wittering on about every single move this man makes, sky news will stop commissioning interviews with him and then he will magically disappear.

BethJ62 · 02/01/2023 12:47

SlowHorses67 · 02/01/2023 12:28

Stop giving interviews (selling interviews) would be my advice.

Agree .

Hbh17 · 02/01/2023 12:48

I don't doubt that The King loves his son, but how can he trust him when everything is passed straight back to the media? Harry is completely deluded and, sadly, he has brought all of this on himself.

Maireas · 02/01/2023 12:50

AngelicaElizaAndPeggy · 02/01/2023 12:47

Well if you lot would stop wittering on about every single move this man makes, sky news will stop commissioning interviews with him and then he will magically disappear.

Who are "you lot"?
Why is commenting on a news story "wittering"?
I strongly suspect that Harry will never shut up, he has a media career to pursue.

Rhondaa · 02/01/2023 12:50

AngelicaElizaAndPeggy · 02/01/2023 12:47

Well if you lot would stop wittering on about every single move this man makes, sky news will stop commissioning interviews with him and then he will magically disappear.

Ah yes it's all our fault on mn Grin.

It is all over the news, Twitter etc. This stupid man keeps blabbing to the media, it is not unusual for folk to comment in these situations.

Ohnonevermind · 02/01/2023 12:52

I would have said to Thomas Markle if he wanted any chance of reconciliation with Meghan - say nothing more to the media, give it some time and then baby steps to reconciliation

biographies and interviews isn’t the way to do it. He is as bad as Thomas Markle now.

what a tool

Wonnle · 02/01/2023 12:52

It's as if he's got a book out to plug isn't it

"Oh go away and let me live my life in private but watch all the interviews I do and don't forget to buy this book ! "

Ifulikepinacoladas · 02/01/2023 12:53

Beside the point, but I cannot watch Tom Bradby. His news reading style is so smug and opinionated (I can't explain it any better than that, it's his tone).

BethDuttonsTwin · 02/01/2023 12:53

Ohnonevermind · 02/01/2023 12:52

I would have said to Thomas Markle if he wanted any chance of reconciliation with Meghan - say nothing more to the media, give it some time and then baby steps to reconciliation

biographies and interviews isn’t the way to do it. He is as bad as Thomas Markle now.

what a tool

Good advice but sadly I think the estrangement is mostly about his face not fitting, rather than how he mishandled the press.

Ylvamoon · 02/01/2023 12:55

Airing his dirty laundry in public rather than washing in private... some kids just never grow up.

JoyPeaceSleep · 02/01/2023 12:55

Blimey, he is all over the place, an absolute mess. For all his talk about mental health is he actually seeing a therapist now?

I doubt it.
My therapist advised me against sending a letter I had written to my mother on the grounds that I would then have to deal with the fall out instead of the wound.
In a lot of ways I relate to harry as my family hurt me. Although they did the smear campaign, for free!

AutumnCrow · 02/01/2023 12:57

PicturesOfDogs · 02/01/2023 12:32

It just doesn’t make sense, all he has been taking about is how awful they are, and how they basically ‘wouldn’t stop until Meghan was dead’
So why does he want them back in his life?
Surely he’d want to be as far away as possible from them if that were true?!?

I'm personally starting to wonder if this unhappy, angry and paranoid man might represent a real danger to his wife. He is very invested in likening her to his dead mother, with whom he is obsessed.

If I were risk profiling this family I would be very concerned about the adult male being clearly mentally distressed, becoming isolated from his family of origin, making grandiose statements and claims, and - on camera, ffs - showing contempt in his face towards his wife on occasion.

This is not a well man. This is not a nice man. I think his wife took an opportunity with him but has got herself into some very deep water here, and is herself isolated in many ways. 'We don't get out much', laughed Harry to the cameras at that award ceremony. I bet you don't, H, I bet you don't.

KatherineParr · 02/01/2023 13:01

If even half of what Harry has said is true then I don't really understand why he wants to reconcile?

BethJ62 · 02/01/2023 13:02

Maybe Harry wants his family back but does Meghan ? How on earth would it work ?
Also , why would H and M want to be back with such a “ toxic” family who made their lives so miserable.

Farmageddon · 02/01/2023 13:03

BethDuttonsTwin · 02/01/2023 12:35

I’m sure he does. Just like he wanted to stay close to QE while bitching about his father and brother. He knows where the power lies and that his father like most parents will do anything to be back on good terms with his child and have access to his grandchildren.

This struck me as well - when the Queen was alive the blame was put on Charles & William. But now he's moved up in the ranks, the blame is squarely on William & Kate.

They seem to be cosying up to whoever is in charge.

IcedPurple · 02/01/2023 13:03

If this snippet is an accurate representation of the interview and book, Harry surely can't attend the Coronation. Can he?

Ch3wylemon · 02/01/2023 13:04

I wonder what first attracted him to the idea that he should reconcile with his powerful billionaire father?

Rhondaa · 02/01/2023 13:06

IcedPurple · 02/01/2023 13:03

If this snippet is an accurate representation of the interview and book, Harry surely can't attend the Coronation. Can he?

Oh they will, brass necked as ever. He'll frown and glare and she'll takes notes for vols 3, 4 etc.

CocoLux · 02/01/2023 13:08

There's lots of navel gazing but no actual reflection, no thought that he may have been in any way at fault

whynotwhatknot · 02/01/2023 13:09

i dont get him at all-how can you publicly slag off your own family several times then say i want them to have a relationship with me

MarshaMelrose · 02/01/2023 13:10

Maireas · 02/01/2023 12:36

Maybe, Janiie! Stranger things have happened....

Hmm, not sure they have!

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