I think Harry is quite dim and easily manipulated but with an underlying arrogance and sense of entitlement. His early years were enormously privileged but he suffered a very great loss when his mother died, and her funeral/absence clearly had an awful impact on him. He was a mixed up teenager and dabbled in drugs and drinking excessively. His father struggled to influence him, [I think Charles is almost intimidated by his sons] and there was the added complication of his de facto step mother being ‘the other woman’. He joined the Army and loved that life, but couldn’t progress because of his poor academic record. None of his girlfriends wanted to marry him and his role was to be ‘the spare’ until of course his brother had children of his own. So what went wrong?
Im not sure that Harry ever reconciled to being ‘the spare’. It seems that Diana particularly, wanted the boys to be treated as equals, with hindsight that was an unrealistic aspiration given their positions within an hereditary monarchy. They are also rather different personalities, William appears to be the brighter and more emotionally mature. Harry attending Eton seems to have equipped him for very little, he would have been far better off in a less academic and less elitist environment. So by the time he met Meghan [at which stage William was married and had children] Harry was a rather aimless privileged bloke who knew that on some level his currency was in decline. I think that Meghan’s ambitions and his frustrations were in perfect sync. She ‘rescued him’ and she became the natural successor to Diana’s title of Queen of Hearts.
Of course its all bunkum but not in their world. They wanted their own ‘brand’, that was never going to happen. They wanted to be taken as equals to W&C and that was never going to happen, and they wanted to make a lot of money, and that was never going to happen under the umbrella of the RF. Now the Sussex’s are engaged in a retrospective and its always someone else’s fault. They are the victims of a conspiracy. A conspiracy to deny them their rightful place in the world order of super heroes. They are under threat from dark forces whose sole aim is to harm and destroy them….have you heard the number of times Harry talks about his ‘security’ and the need to ‘keep my family safe’. At times its delusional. Its all very Hollywood, as are the faux charity projects. Diana wasn't a saint, but she had a genuine sympathy with the poor and marginalised and she did alot of plain old fashioned hospital visits and the like, out of a genuine desire to help people. I don't sense that the Sussex’s ever saw their future as visiting an old folks home in Stafford followed by a hospice in Wigan. I think they have exploited Diana’s unhappinesses and have adopted them as their own. The talk of self harm, of feeling unappreciated, of feeling on the outside and vulnerable.
Had the Sussex’s been allowed all that they asked for, they would be hosting their own weekly tv show, monetising their brand endlessly, constantly in the public eye and talking about world peace, inner beauty and climate change, all the while being protected by the British tax payer and flitting in and out of the RF for all the ‘big events’, always by private jet, courtesy of their celebrity chums. The deal they thought they could make was to have a separate and rival court. I think a window on what they really wanted and how they thought they would live, was the baby shower in New York. That was their dream life, being a superstar and having the best of everything. Making the truly famous their intimates and NBF. Talking to Presidents and world leaders, about subjects which do not really interest them, about which they have limited personal experience but sound good.
Harry wont be reconciling with his family, I doubt that he and M whilst they remain married will budge an inch. Of course some of the things they have encountered in the press are vile, Clarkson being a recent example, a disgusting misogynistic oaf playing to the gallery. Yes the press are out of control in this country, but M &H are not really concerned with the press per se but in controlling what is written about them. They don't want to be anonymous and left alone given that the only way to achieve anonymity would be to live quietly doing unglamorous work, living within their means. If M and H were really concerned with a more just society, a fairer society, why are they not tackling wealth inequality? Why did they choose a very public wedding, where no expense was spared [when according to Meghan, they had secretly married 3 days earlier in the garden with the Archbishop of Canterbury]? Why are they demanding titles for their children? Why are they choosing to live in one of the most privileged places on earth, surrounded by the richest of the rich and constantly moaning about their own financial difficulties? Why aren’t they campaigning for the billionaire class to pay a fairer share of taxes, or for darling Pa to pay inheritance tax and the end of off shore tax avoidance devices, the majority of which are affiliated in some form or other to Britain? Why does he love washing his subjective dirty linen in public and then talk of betrayal and a need for love and tolerance?
Does H even understand that his critics have a point?