What the hell is his end goal?

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So Harry is worried about security and yet has written in his book that he’s killed 25 Talibans.
He is dangerous. He is dangerous to the UK, to his family and to himself
He seems intent to be stirring up hatred.
I am so glad that HM The Queen isn’t seeing this 🥹 All her years of service being trashed by someone she loved so much

school year 😂

How goal is maximum damage to the RF and maximum cash to him. Fortunately he has now scored an own goal in his stupid book and he has made himself look ridiculous.

I would think if Kate seemed uncomfortable it was because she was part way through her third very difficult pregnancy in a handful of years.

Or maybe as she was pregnant and suffering from hyperemesis she was worried about infections or cold sores or just anything that might be an irritant . How he can make a pregnant woman’s reluctance to lend a lip gloss about him beggars belief

@cyclamenqueen I agree, I would be unhappy about sharing a lip gloss, bleugh. How the hell does that indicates I am wildly jealous of that person. Harry must be such hard work to be around.

I'm sure if there Mum was still around,she'd bang there heads together and tell em to bloody behave themselves!!!! Such a shame it has come to this.Where Will it end??

He is pathologically self absorbed with a persecution complex.

Surely someone can get him some MH help ?

He is totally focused on how ‘hard done by’ he has been without realising that he is one of the more privileged people on the planet.

I truly believe there is no ‘goal’. It’s just a pile of whatever deals they could make with no particular plan to follow.

Re: lip gloss - yeah, I think I’d be caught off guard if someone asked to borrow my lipgloss. It’s just a bit weird, certainly in a TV studio which I’m certain would have contained make up artists. Comparisons of lips wouldn’t have crossed my mind.

I don’t think he was ever privileged. His mother whilst a fantasy loving figure in his head was categorically not a good mother. His father was useless, he was no doubt pitted against William from said parents so does not have an authentic sibling connection. It was a damaging and a highly, highly unusual upbringing for which he is rageful and I don’t really blame him….. to an extent.

I do think going to America and genuinely “living well and having genuine happiness” would have been the best revenge for him though. I do think he could have dealt with it with more integrity and in a way that actually would have probably made William quite envious.

His end goal is cornering his father into funding costly private security, being funded to the tune of $millions per annum, and basically agreeing to STFU with a long overdue NDA.

Think the dictionary definition is "blackmail".

He genuinely wants some kind of grovelling, public apology on bended knee from everyone.

In the book, he talks about having a dinner with Charles, and telling him all these anecdotes about how he felt traumatised and second best, and he relays that Charles actually put his head in his hands and said how deeply sorry he was.

That wasn't enough.

What a way to ransom and blackmail your family via the medium of publishing all this crap.... the unsaid threat that this is just the beginning and he will bring them down.

Seld-serving snake.

Meghan is a narcissist. Using the future queen’s lip gloss is probably some bizarre “goal” on her list of grandiose achievements in life. It’s not an american thing as just as many americans will be grossed out by the idea.

Harry was always mentally unwell, in denial that his relationship is abusive, isolated in a country without any real friends and now being slaughtered by the press.

There is no end game. He just wants to make as much money as he can and will carry on talking about this, as long as people are paying him. He is motivated by money, jealousy and bitterness towards his family in the way he feels he has been treated.

news.sky.com/story/prince-harry-cuts-a-sad-self-indulgent-and-naive-figure-in-his-memoir-spare-12780825

I read somewhere that a great deal of Harry’s problems before he married were dealt with by the RF and Buckingham Palace. That William and Catherine had encouraged him to seek professional help for his mental health issues and that the ‘Men in Grey’ managed to block the press from reporting the stories concerning his behaviour. Which sort of makes sense - perhaps what we are seeing now is the way he’s always been? This would easier to understand than him having a sudden and dramatic change of personality when he married Meghan. She may have unwittingly encouraged him to face his issues, fed into his insecurities, but ultimately, this is the real Harry and it’s only now the palace are no longer protecting him that the public are seeing it.

Not getting a hug and being left alone is not right.

But it's also not the whole story. He also talks about how Charles sat on the side of his bed, woke him up, put his hand on his knee and said "My dear son, mum has had a car accident. There have been complications. Mum has been seriously injured and has been taken to hospital, my dear son."

He talks about how Charles would call him Dear Son regularly but said it a lot on that occasion and seemed in shock.

Of course Charles could have handled that better and Harry clealy felt hurt but not getting the hug he really needed in those moments But to leave out the full story makes it appear as if Charles didn't give a shit, rather than to be trying to do what was right and failing.

@cyclamenqueen . Exactly. Coldsore was my first thought too. But everything is about him. Everyone is out to get him or Meghan. Exhausting.
Victimhood is strong in this one.

Sharing lip gloss- boak. I'd have said just take it, I'll buy a new one. I wouldn't use it again after someone else had.

Asking for it is pure CF.

In the book, he talks about having a dinner with Charles, and telling him all these anecdotes about how he felt traumatised and second best, and he relays that Charles actually put his head in his hands and said how deeply sorry he was.

This is so sad.

He also talks about how Charles would leave little notes under the boys' pillows telling them how proud he was of them.

And in almost all the anecdotes where he quotes Charles, Charles refers to Harry as Dear/Daring Boy/Son.

I agree with the pp who said, it's like Harry never grew up beyond the age when the trauma of losing his mum happened. All this talk of being second best and a spare - it's like he cannot see through that to the important thing: he is not the spare in his own life. And now he's not the spare to his wife and children.

There comes a time for the best 'revenge' of a life well lived.

This is so so sad to watch.
I don't think he's well at all, it's astonishing his brother appears as well grounded as he does.

What on earth will he do next?

I hate to say this but it appears he's very much his mother's son. Unbelievable sad to stand by and watch this unfold.

Do all second-borns have the spare complex? I’m the third-born, goodness knows the issues I must have under the surface 🤔

"Am I glad I read it [Spare]?

Mostly I'm left feeling a little bit guilty that someone clearly so troubled has felt compelled to share so much."

Very poignant.

I think you’re probably bang on the money there @Dropzonefourpleaseben. Unfortunately it gives credibility to some of the more disturbing gossip that has circled for a few years now. I think that’s possibly more damaging to the RF since if there’s any truth in those rumours and they’ve sought to protect him it will have immense consequences.

The conclusion I've made he's a bit dim. Doesn't understand the consequences of giving out this narrative or perspectives.