Harry took a pop at the British media using him and him not being in control of the narrative and how unfair it was.
Harry was well aware of the hangers on around his mother. He was aware of the media backlash with his mother. And how everything was analysed.
Yet when Harry tries to control the narrative by spilling every intimate detail he has, it's his very own words and stories coming back to him. That's it. No dodgy PR throwing him under the bus here. This is a mess of his own making at this point. And the worst of those are the Taliban comments which put him, his family and his security team's lives at greater risk. It's alienated himself from many in the military who had remained loyal to him and had continued to admire him. It has implications for his pet project, his games for vets too. This was a comment he wasn't forced into. It's an unforced error of a scale which is huge and has diplomatic implications too. That's unforgivable on all levels tbh.
He's so far out of touch with reality he's beyond help of anyone but his closest and even then he's probably going to have to learn the hard way now.
Take this as a good example of where he's at. Imagine this as a thread on mn.
After their engagement, he said he was left thinking about his own bachelorhood, and his desire to settle down only grew stronger.
He confessed he had always felt he would be the first to get married.
After the wedding in 2011, Harry claims William and Kate were granted more staff, more cars, a larger residence and a more imposing office.
While he says he 'wasn't bothered' about the advantages, he said the 'respect' mattered to him.
He claimed he felt like an outsider and a 'non-person' because he was a bachelor.
His move to Nottingham Cottage came in 2013, and he said he was overjoyed to be living opposite William and Kate.
However he claimed despite being 'half a football field away', he wasn't ever invited over to the Cambridges' home in Kensington Palace.
Despite 'assuming' he'd receive an invite, he said he was left disappointed and believed they felt 'three is a crowd'.
Elsewhere, Harry detailed telling Kate and William about excitement over Meghan and saying how it had been his 'dream for a long time' to become 'a foursome.'
However he claims William told him 'it may not happen' and that he would 'have to settle.'
When the two did decide to marry, Harry claims William told him on the eve of their wedding in 2018 that he was spending the evening with Kate and their children.
The duke writes that it was a sensitive time, because it had been their 'tradition' and that William 'cancelled at the last minute.'
And then the drip feed:
The above leaves out the important point that in 2013, when he moved to Nottingham Cottage, his brother and sister-in-law had just had a baby (July 2013). The last thing they probably wanted to do was baby sit a 28 year old grown man too.
And then on the eve of his wedding William wanting to stay with his wife and children might not be such a snub. They'd just had another baby. And there were obviously arguments going on and maybe he didn't want another one the day before the wedding.
The idea of hanging out as a foursome wasn't necessarily realistic from the off. There's no thought given to establishing his own life. Even now it's all about him and comparison with William.
Harry looks like hard work - the world revolves around him in his head and he doesn't like it when people don't orbit around him. And his own identity is only about William. Most people get through this stage in their life in their early twenties and certainly before they marry. His immaturity is staggering. It looks like William, by Harry's own admission, was trying to tell him he needed to be independent and to have his own life and identity apart from William.
We don't know the impact on the mental health of others here. I suspect the Queen may have been aware of the issues. Obviously the whole family set up is claustrophobic and isolating - but this is something William could have been feeling too. All those years of feeling responsible for looking after his young brother after the death of their mother... We know that the impact on Harry has been huge. But what about William?
Harry hasn't learnt the lessons of his mother despite seemingly being fixated on it either. He's clearly surrounding himself with hangers on who aren't concerned about his welfare. And his mother baring her sole didn't exactly win everyone over either. The pedestal he put his mother on doesn't reflect the reality of the time.
I think there is an argument here about how he learns the lessons he needs to regardless of his mental health. He needs to face up to be reality once and for all because all this shielding him from it, has been counter productive.
He has to learn when to shut up, for his own good, quite frankly - he's not demonstrating how unfairly he's been treated. He's demonstrating how much of a manchild he is. The only remedy for that is to grow the fuck up.
The Royal Family definitely has it's flaws in terms of status, racism and coldness but this is being blamed on every single thing in his life. He's just not realistic in his expectations.
Even if his family do take the moral high ground and go for a reconciliation, it runs the risk of pandering to nonsense which won't do Harry any good anyway. And if the whole family have to constantly run around pandering to Harry what about their own families and mental health? I fail to see how William prioritising his wife and kids over his brother is as bad thing, especially when Harry apparently did exactly the same thing!
The problem with pride and arrogance on this scale is that comes before a fall. The public could not post a single meme and the outcome would be exactly the same because this isn't really about the media, or the public. This is Harry just not getting on with his family and being incapable of seeing things from their perspective at any point. And that's effectively what he spells out in his own words.
Why does his brother have to hang out with him constantly? For some one who says the family was suffocating to him, the idea that his older brother's social life - as well as his working life -must also revolve his little brother ahead of his young family is kinda nuts.
I think I'm at the point of thinking that Harry needs to have some kind of epiphany / breakdown on this and people close to him need to stop being yes me for their own benefit and tell him straight that none of this is going to fix any of his grievances or beefs with the institution.
I'd argue that he's not been 'unloved' and treated as second best. I'd argue the opposite. He's been over protected as the vulnerable younger brother who lost his mother and was shielded from a lot of bullshit and never learnt the skills or had the intelligence to work out how it all worked. Then he met a woman with her own massive issues who projected them onto his family and her ignorance of the institution and British life compounded it (a little cottage in London is a massive culture shock to an American used to the rich living in big houses. The British upper class children living in small period cottages is the norm but that's a world away from the US LA set).
Honestly whatever happens next isn't going to be any different regardless of memes. It's about whether anyone can talk sense into Harry (unlikely to happen around Meghan because of the culture differences), how the fall out from the Taliban comments plays out and how advertisers decide to play with unwise PR in the long run.
The ball is in Harry's court to respond to a backlash. he has created this situation and power. No one else can do much to change that. He has a week of TV interviews where he can choose to double down or take on board a reaction.
I suspect he's incapable of the latter because he's trapped himself into a victim complex. Until he - not the public - starts doing positive affirmations nothing will change. The Royals can't protect him from this one either...
So in the meantime, crack on with the memes because at least it gives people who live in the real world something to laugh about rather than get angry about his out of touch attitude. There is not enough eye rolling in the world to counter the nonsense he's coming out with. The alternative is abuse imho given economic hardship and uncertainties facing many. How can you identify with a grown man whining at being given a free cottage and having IKEA furniture when you can't feed your kids, put on the heating, pay the rent, buy school uniform and never mind buy a second hand bed for your children. An angry backlash rather than a meme backlash is far worse ....