I am genuinely worried for Harry's mental health now after this

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Give it another week of worldwide chewing over his words and all the drama it's creating, I'm genuinely worried for Harry. How can you go anywhere and hold your head up after you've opened yourself to such ridicule? He might want an un-royal life but he is a prince non-the-less. Where's the dignity? He really, really needs help. I sincerely hope it gets it. The fallout from this won't be forgotten in a hurry. And to top it off, how can he make his family truly secure now?

I very much agree with this, but unfortunately it's about making as much money as possible.

He's released a gigantic book, over 400 pages, but all I know from the headlines is how he lost his virginity and about his frostbitten penis! There surely must be more interesting information in it about the incredible and bizarre life he's (no I'm not buying it to find out), but the press are using these quotes to make him a laughing stock.

I think he was hoping it would make him seem more human and relatable, and also to bring down his family- if you kick us out, we'll retaliate. But it's not quite worked out that way.

And yes I think Meghan will divorce him. She's certainly gone very quiet.

But the point is, he doesn't think for himself. She rules, she courts the attention, she got him into this and absolutely went over that book in detail.... She is so detail focused and controlling, particularly when it comes to their 'image' of course this was her responsibility. He is utterly clueless and vulnerable.

Is he not like 37, 38.Thought william was 40.

I think he was seriously naive and had no comprehension of what he was being protected from when on the inside of the Royal Family. He thought the cure to his problems was to be allowed to say what he thinks in public without censorship. The reality, however, is that this has not solved any of the real causes of his unhappiness, it has just made him more vulnerable and caused indiscriminate harm to others.

He's 38. Most people are working and supporting themselves, and often families, at that age.

Omid Scobie has put up two pages of the English version of the book. How did he get a copy of that if it's not released til Tuesday? It couldn't come from HA - they don't know him.

It's such a mystery isn't it? Who could have given to to him?

I'm wondering if Scoobie will write a new updated version of Finding Freedom?.

Families are starving to death in Afghanistan and women are being denied the right to work and study and yet here you are posting about your concerns for an exceedingly wealthy young with man with an over inflated ego, who’s been given opportunities most of us couldn’t ever dream of?

For gods sake, get some perspective! 🤦🏻‍♀️

@Maireas of course I agree. Just a previous poster said Harry was 40 and I was just double checking he wasnt.

Harry was beginning to have some of my sympathies from the Netflix episode that made me think about how intrusive the paparazzi were into his childhood. The Taliban comments though… now that’s not a hornets nest you go poking! Who knows what trouble he’s stirred up with that.

He thinks he was only pretending to be best man at William's wedding. We all saw him go down isle with William, hand over rings, and walk back down isle with chief bridesmaid Pippa

This reminds me of those car chases on police programmes. Driver brought to a halt and dragged out and first thing he says? 'It wasn't me driving.' 'It wasn't me driving.' It as if they - and Harry - think that all you have to do is deny reality often enough and it magically re-arranges itself.

I think I they are both in serious trouble. Whether you think M is a scheming minx out for what she can get or an innocent caught in the royal machine, she is still in what looks like an unsustainable marriage with a mentally unwell man. Either the marriage will end because she set it up that way and wants the $$$$ or she will be under gigantic and ever increasing pressure and walking on eggshells around a man who feels utterly dependent on her. Every petty squabble about who forgot to flush the loo will descend into “don’t you love me anymore?” and she will have to walk away for her own sanity. Five minutes on the Relationship Board will find women who just can’t carry on in similar (albeit less monied) circumstances. Take her and the kids away and you have a very unwell and lonely man with nowhere to turn. That rarely ends well.

Poor Harry's children - they are almost certainly going to be ridiculed relentlessly at school about his stallion prowess and frostbitten weener

It pays the bills. I doubt her podcasts are generating much income. She knows he has to do this to pay for their lifestyle. The lifestyle she wants. He wasn’t bothered about having a mansion and designer clothes before he met her.

Oh, right. Yes he was born September 1984.
I remember Charles and Diana emerging from the hospital with him, and how happy they looked.

I think you have to have strong self-esteem to handle a marriage like that. You need to recognise what the marriage gives and doesn’t give you.
Weirdly I think these marriages improve over time. The Beckhams over share but spend lots of time together, the Clinton’s seem devoted as health issues occur.
Harry and Meghan don’t seem like secure individuals, to put it mildly.

I could well imagine that he has been told that the only way forward to a proper relationship with his family is to lay out absolutely all his grievances and his pain for them to see. Once they see how badly they have treated him they will apologise and hug ( or not) and they will all move on with a beautiful new, clean slate. He doesn't seem to grasp that he also has to accept that he has hurt people, been a prat, acted in ways that have caused enormous hassle( drug and poor behaviour as a young man etc) and damaged other peoples mental health whilst supposedly treating his own. His level of self absorption is off the scale.

So true.

People can hold more than one thing at a time in their heads, even if you can't.

Amd yet despite your outrage, here you are.....

I don't know how not discussing what's in the news is going to help women in Afghanistan. But if it offends you so much, don't read the thread.

Off you pop to solve the world's issues then.

Oh definitely. Their costs must be utterly eye watering

Looks like 'families starving in Afghanistan and the women are being denied an eduation, get some perspective' is today's 'you're all racists and haters.'