Prince Harry - sounds articulate and quite intelligent

[pigalow27]

There seems to be an accepted view that Prince Harry is very dim and unintelligent but he seems to be to be really quite articulate and have a wide vocabulary (antagonist, complicit.) I've thought this before when he made a speech at the Invictus games but assumed it was written for him and he was reading it but the answers to the questions in the interview couldn't all possibly have been learnt,

He has a posh accent and a way with words. He is not being intelligent at the moment. If he usually is then this is one extremely long brain fart he is having.

He obviously hasn't got a good memory, he seems to have completely forgotten the allegations 'they' made in the Oprah interview, or doesn't it count if Megan said it🤔

I am also wondering why when he spoke to his therapist after being 'attacked' by his brother he didn't ask advice for Meghan. Does he think the general.l public are as forgetful as he is?

I'm absolutely sick of the word 'narrative'. Thesaurus please.

YYY @Crosswithlifeatm

All rehearsed for months

I don’t think he’s dim, average I’d say. Somebody in the press likes him:

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jan/08/harry-the-interview-review-so-horribly-sad-it-could-have-turned-the-queen-anti-monarchy

Good evening Meghan, nice of you to drop by. He is reasonably articulate but he also has tunnel vision and a very unhealthy obsession. Intelligent? No. He appears to have learnt that empathy is something he should feel, and is using terms to Illustrate that he's acquired some, but his actions demonstrate he has little or none for his family.

He has a posh accent and a way with words.

This. He's had the best possible level of education and a ton of media training so, of course, he's eloquent but that's not the same as intelligent.

His private tutor (when asked if Harry is bright) said it wasn't appropriate to criticise someone he taught as a child.

I agree. Emily Maitlis' interview with Prince Andrew was excellent. She was polite - no annoying abrasive Laura Kuensberg style- but intelligent and asked the right questions and let Prince Andrew unknowingly dig himself into a bigger and bigger hole.

Exactly this! He has had an expensive education. I would expect him to speak with a posh accent and be relatively eloquent and confident.

This!!!

Emily M conducted that interview perfectly. Might be her last royal interview though!

He comes across as what he is. Expensively educated, pumped full of confidence and arrogant as all he’ll. he comes across like Andrew to be honest. I have a friend, state school, who went to Cambridge and she said she learnt pretty quick that it didn’t want what you did and didn’t do you just stood up there and tried to sound like you know what you were talking about.

I thought he was fine when talking about Diana, and then it just was incoherent. But you know look at his parents. They liked to blame everyone else too. He was actually today defensive and irritated with Bradby…who is surely now back in royal fold.

He's as thick as mince but has a posh accent. I thought he has very little to say other than making it crystal clear that he hates the press. The interview seemed very over-rehearsed and didn't go into much detail. Lots of waffle and non-answers. He said Catherine and Megan never got on but wasn't asked to explain further.

All I took from it is that he needs proper therapy/treatment and that it's apparent that he's done a lot of drugs.

She does a podcast now with Sopel…who has long been her down park husband. The two have some seriously appealing chemistry. She no longer interviews really or appears on TV.

I'm not a fan but thought he came across well enough. He stated his life's work was to bring down the tabloid press. I actually wish he could / would. It's thoroughly corrupt and irresponsible.

It will have been so prepared and rehearsed. Won’t have been done in one take, will have been reshot multiple times until he was happy with it.

He wore me out.

Poor William, he must be very worried for his younger brother.

The interview was not exactly incisive was it? And why would it be, it's to promote his book. Harry knew what questions he was going to be asked, and the answers were pre prepared, whether by himself or another or both.
The contents of his book I have seen would not indicate a high level of intelligence, though I concede that what I have read so far are as reported by the press, so are taken out of context. Amongst other indiscretions, a person who needlessly puts a lifelong target on their own and others backs can't be too clever.

This.

He sounds well-spoken & fluid. He has jargon & therapy-speak at the ready.

But he says nothing of substance or meaning. (Tho better than Meghan, at least)

Yes exactly. I keep reading over and over again people saying he's unintelligent and "very unwell". He came across as very intelligent and completely lucid!

With input from the teachers don’t forget.

Yeah right Meagan

This is like a Black Mirror episode where we’re being fed alternate realities… what he was saying was for the most part ridiculous and basic? I’m no royalist but this man is really not intelligent. The stupidest thing was “I never intended to hurt my family with the book” point… know of cause and effect, of boundaries?

@pigalow27 Boris Johnson might have an act that he is a buffoon, but I think he has a first from Oxford, which they don’t give out in a lucky bag. Most mere mortals do at least three a levels. Harold only did two and didn’t excel in either despite having access to the most expensive, intensive education in the world. I think he comes across as quite thick. That’s why he swallows everything anything says to him with authority. Also in my experience intelligent people don’t respond with the naked defensiveness that Harry did when even lightly pressed. No serious person could find this man intelligent from this interview. The fact that you equate intelligence with ‘big words’ and a good vocabulary says it all.