I'm feeling a bit sorry for Harry

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I feel like he needs his mum more than ever. To put an arm round him and say "enough son".

He needs guidance, he's never had maternal guidance. Its well documented that Williams life has been really enhanced by Kates parents. Harry has never had that and i feel sorry for him.

He’s lost the run of himself, that’s for sure. I had a lot of sympathy for them doing their side of the story but the book, as reported, sounds OTT.
And suggests he isn’t doing too well.
Id want to read it though before judging it or him. It possibly isn’t as daft as it’s being reported but no idea why so many uber personal stories are being put out there.

His mum wrote her own kiss and tell book about being Royal through Andrew Morton so probably not the best to advise him on when to keep quiet!

I’m not really sure Diana would have been best placed to do that even if she was alive. She was not exactly putting the boys first in the later years.

I absolutely believe him and Meghan on what they’re saying

I just am not sure they should be saying it

He’s living in a mansion, publishing a bestselling book, has a Netflix deal, a wife and 2 kids and private jets everywhere. Whatever his issues he can afford the best care and professional help to address them. All the choices he makes are his own.

I can think many of others more deserving of my sympathy than an insanely rich and privileged adult with self inflicted problems.

I don’t think Diana would necessarily have been a great help to him. I always felt sad for him but he is not a young man anymore, he is a married man with 2 kids approaching 40, he presumably has his wife supporting him and if reports are true they are close to her mother.

Let’s be honest, Diana wasn’t exactly an expert on knowing when enough was enough…
He is embarrassing himself, let’s not blame it solely on losing his mother.

Yeh, he's just shown himself up more and more and more. He thinks he's got his side across and yet, I think he's made himself look worse.

I find it hard to believe that he's had any kind of epiphany, has he really been having therapy or did he give up on the therapy?

And although he's made a lot of money, that house of his costs 15 million a year to run! I think I remember reading that. I'd love to see him move to a much smaller house that was much cheaper to run so that he didn't need to make so much money. He could set up a bootcamp in Montecito. As an ex army type who has been very fit in his past that is something that rings true and wouldn't be hard to buy. I think that could work. Even if their ambitions are for politics in the future, I think 20 years of leading simpler more hardworking lives would serve that agenda well.

My feelings exactly. I don't think he would lie risking complete breakup of relationship with family. I'm just bit fed up that this is all over news.

I think he is certainly in a bubble or echo chamber where there is no one to say “enough” as you say OP. Anyone who might have talked sense to him would have been cut out years ago as “anti-Megan”.

Lord knows what kind of influence Diana would have been - I’d like to think calming but who knows. but this is so embarrassing now.

With every further revelation met with dignified silence from KP & BP - he just looks more & more unhinged.

I believe that this is their perception of things, but it’s incredible one sided. We may never hear the other side.

And, with breaking news that the Taliban is now taunting Harry, I think he’s fucked up big time. Nothing good will come of any of this, apart from him feeling he’s got things off his chest. Sad all round.

But do you think he's telling the whole story? Because it's possible to lie by omission.

I think that many of the things he describes did actually happen - but I think he's left out key facts which don't reflect well on him.

Take the story about Prince William losing his temper - the sequence of events doesn't add up. Harry is a renowned hot-head and has lost his temper in public. He wanders into the kitchen calmly to pour his brother a glass of water while PW is "piping hot" and ranting about Meghan being rude, etc? The PW calmly places the glass of water down and launches himself at Harry? The same Harry who's a trained soldier, and is far more physically fit, athletic and strong than his brother?

There's a nub of truth in there but there's definitely a lot missing.

Same as the story about Meghan having to buy Ikea furniture on her credit card but PW and Catherine having an apartment full of fine art. So multi-millionaire Harry lived in an empty cottage prior to Meghan's arrival and had absolutely no access to cash to furnish a cottage before or after? Really....?!

There's so much missing from his story - and from their previous Oprah interview and Netflix series. They may be truths - but they're incredibly misleading because of what has been missed out.

As for feeling sorry for him - no, I don’t. I do feel very worried about his mental health though and the fact he’s clearly being exploited by the American media (yeah you, Oprah and Netflix - if he ends up dead I’m blaming ya)

I hardly think Diana would have given the best advice, given her track record. He’s a very sad little man though. He clearly needs help from someone.

I feel sorry for him too. He's clearly in a huge amount of pain and is not handling it at all well. Details about dog bowls and frozen todgers and shagging in fields just mean that no one will take him seriously ever again. It's really tawdry and undignified. Seems like he wants to be really seen and heard and taken seriously, but that is just not going to happen. What a mess

I think Diana would probably have loved this and egged him on. Of course were she alive, he wouldn't have her death to blame things on.

He is an adult
He made his bed
he can lie in it
Bored to death with this a hole

I feel like he needs his mum more than ever. To put an arm round him and say "enough son".

Well apparently he knows someone who can put him in touch with his mother and who can let him know what she thinks.

He's ill for sure.

I think he's on some sort of addiction roundabout and can't get off. Instead it's spinning faster and faster until he breaks.

MM, isn't a good partner for him either, she seems to fuel some of ttheanger against his own family...

He'll look back on this in years to come and will be very embarrassed.

It’s bloody difficult to feel sorry for him, but I see what you mean. It’s clear that, despite being privileged and wealthy beyond imagining, he has had a very dysfunctional and damaging time of it. But then surely he can see that so has his brother, so I can’t see why he’s the one he’s mostly railing against. And because of who is brother has been born to be, he knows he is hamstrung in terms of he can do and say about it.

For goodness sake, he’s nearly 40 years old. He is not a child who needs bus mum

I feel very sorry for him.

Unravelling like this in public is awful.

But it's entirely self-inflicted and voluntary.

Goodness only knows how he'll pick his way through the aftermath

I don’t feel sorry for him at all. I think he’s a completely out of touch, deaf loose cannon and a malicious one at that.

I used to have a colleague who was raised in foster homes after parental abuse, standing on his own two feet out of necessity from the age of 16. He had very little support as an adult. No access to the sort of things Harry’s privilege brings. Lovely lovely man who struggled at times but somehow managed. I’m far more inclined to direct my sympathy at someone like him.

What a big manbaby. William had a bigger bedroom with a nice view, NottCott was too small, my brother hit me - just a chip on his shoulder because he's the spare, not the heir. That's no one's fault is it?