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?

He’s apparently already on watch 24/7… which is why he left the uk

This sort of talk really gets up my goat, speaking as someone, who lost a parent as a child and had zero, absolutely zero emotional support. They weren’t treated badly by their family. Their family was trying to protect them. Yes, their family made mistakes but they were surrounded by love. The general public demanded to see them and were baying for the Queen’s blood. The boys made appearances to prevent civil unrest. I knew exactly what the boys were going through when their mother died. Of course it was much more traumatic for them as they were forced to be performing seals.

I feel desperately sorry for him and anyone who is now a victim of the consequences of this book.

I feel for him because it's very clear being born as the spare and always being a scapegoat for his brother has affected him.

Watching what his mum went through and her very public death at a young age has affected him.

I think he sees going public as a way to set the record straight and do to his family what has been done to him.

Except it's making it worse and damaging him further.

And due to his poor mental health around the media all the backlash to his own actions will be their fault.

And so the cycle begins again.

If you favour someone that pushes you in front of incoming traffic for the right price

MN has seen this countless times.

Coercive control, in which a manipulative person identifies a vulnerable target, love bombs them, isolates them from their previous life, family, job, friends, income; drains the money, psychologically destroys them, dumps them, and moves on to the next.

Give over

Harry inherited half his mother’s fortune, and chunk from his great granny and got plenty of financial support from his Dad (until he buggered off).

He doesn’t get the number one spot but he gets a lot more freedom to follow his interests. He could have set up any charity he wanted, got any amount of publicity for it, while living a very nice life with far less paperwork and meetings than his brother.

Of course he might feel a bit jealous, but he should also be able to see his advantages and manage that.

The reasons that PH wrote a book is the issue in the first place - it’s not an autobiography but instead a continual battle for everyone to see him as the victim - nothing more than a woe is me whinge fest.

Is this not the motivation of much autobiography? The desire to paint oneself as in the right, wronged by others, misunderstood? It was certainly Diana's motivation in cooperating with Andrew Morton's biography. I couldn't finish it but felt Blair's book was one long self justification. Also the really cringey stuff Cherie Blair said about conceiving Leo at Balmoral.

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Yes, from the Guardian newspaper. A republican reporter no less. Sounded like a ton of BS.

Harry was not scapegoated for Williams misdemeanors. He wore a nazi uniform, wasn't forced into it as he would have you believe. He took drugs. He got drunk often. Naked bathing in las vegas or some such shit (I don't read newspapers), groping someones breast. Hardly something to lay at his brothers feet. He was educated the same, treated the same and loved by both parents. He has also had years of therapy and multiple stories buried by the palace. He is not a victim except in his own mind and further inflamed by his wife. He's participated equally in events and had his own charity ventures.

His feelings of anger and resentment to his family are intrinsically his character flaws, and not something done to him. This book has shown him in the worst possible light and backfired on him massively.

I was being facetious!

I would be more worried for his personal safety from the Taliban now!!

Harry’s function in brutal dynastic terms has been to absorb criticism that might otherwise fall on his older brother

This may be true, but if Harry had just lived a quiet life like Princess Anne and Prince Edward then nothing could be made of it. No one held a gun to his head and told him he had to be a pissed up, drug taking party animal who dressed up in questionable fancy dress outfits. If the above statement is true then he played into the hands of the courtiers and the press and more fool him for doing so.

I'm more concerned about the personal safety of innocents going about their day in the UK if this fires up some madman to take revenge here.

100 per cent! It's really, really sad

Why?

Harry doesn’t care for you or know who you are.

Stop being a slave. He has two kids, wife, income and success.

So Harry is not to be held responsible for things he himself has written? Nonsense.

This too!!

I agree.

Let's not forget Harry has pocketed $100M now from dishing the dirt on his family.

There are a lot of folk who would sell their grandmother and a whole lot worse when faced with the opportunity to earn that kind of money.

I don't blame MM for PH idiotic self destruct book, but I do wonder how that marriage goes if a) she never saw the drafts and b) she can't say 'Harry, I really think this chapter should come out' and have her views taken into consideration by him. He's always told/shown how besotted he is with her. Which then implies that she read it and approved all of it.

Which means both of them are complete idiots. Who puts in print how many people they killed in the armed forces and speaks of 'chess pieces' in relation to that? Knowing that the people they were fighting are not frightened of sacrificing themselves for 'the greater good'? How is that protecting your children?

I'd hate to be in their security team now and if I were a neighbour I'd be extremely angry at the danger he (without a sensible partner standing by and saying 'don't) have put my family in just by living nearby. Perhaps that's one reason why their friends are backing away - who wants to be involved with them whilst PH is bringing down the wrath of God knows what on him and his family? The other reason being that some of them must think 'I've got to be very careful what I say to him/her in future. The state of my marriage/sex life/relationship with my in laws will be in the next book if I upset them!'

And he and Meghan were very quick to kick Thomas Markle into touch when he overstepped their boundaries. I can't think why any of MM and PH supporters would expect the RF to offer the hand of friendship when TM isn't being offered it. And don't say 'because he'd sell the story' as that's exactly what PH is currently doing.

Possibly...but I wouldn't put my kids lives in danger by sticking a target on their heads more than they already have as my kids! And that's what he's done hasn't he? Sold out his own, small, family in the process of having a hissy fit on paper.

Most people wouldn’t if they were already as rich as he is. And he could have left a lot of stuff out without Netflix knowing.

Who???

Why would PH be jealous? William and Kate will have the eyes of the press on them forever. Edward and Anne manage to live lovely lives by the looks of it, Anne does a lot of Royal visits but no-one really bothers her or Edward outside of that.

I think I'd prefer that to the goldfish bowl that Charles and Diana/Camilla and the next in line live in and which William and his heirs now have to live in. Does anyone take an awful lot of notice of Zara and Peter or Louise and James or Eugenie and Beatrice? Wouldn't that be what PH wanted for his kids rather than the glaring spotlight that he and William had as kids?

And now he's got it. All eyes on him and MM. I hope he's happy because you can't control where that spotlight goes or who it follows - even if you do keep your kids strictly out of public eyes. There's always someone willing to sell you out of for a few pounds - as PH has proved himself this week.

Do I feel sorry for him? Nope, he's a grown up. But I do feel sorry for his kids.

Apparently Harry’s book is the Number one best seller on Amazon.

Charles, Kate and William.