Best Prince Harry Interview so far by GMA

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Some serious questions were at last asked by the interviewer - he did a better job in ten minutes than any other has done in 90, but Harry is so brainwashed he somehow manages to bat them away? He really cannot see any wrongdoing on his part.

I am buying the book because I'm seriously interested to hear these 'examples' of leaks.

If this is the case, Harry needs to have the balls to say he and Meghan were being thrown under the bus to deflect from Andrew and actually say who it was doing this. Because the only office I can think of who would be interested in protecting Andrew is the Queen's. Instead, he is making out that Charles & Camilla and William & Kate are briefing against Meghan and him to make the old firm look better.

I just don’t understand how you can say you want to protect your wife and kids from intrusive media attention then invite this sort of scrutiny . He’s doing the rounds of interviews, using the very media he hates so his book sells more and he gets more money.

This is something I've found difficult to follow. He's done the book (written by a ghost writer but presumably approved by himself) and several interviews, with reasonably sympathetic interviewers some with pre-agreed questions. At this point there is no need for anyone else to leak info or brief the press. It's all out there, for consumption, in the open, all from the horses mouth.

And there's a lot of new and some pretty shocking (both in a major way - Taliban and in a more mundane way - feeling aggrieved about having a small bedroom) details that would fill the tabloids and social media for weeks
This is surely what they moved to get away from...??

The Ghost Writer of Spare has liked this tweet - I think that says a LOT.

I've tried to get my head around this - see it from his point of view. But if it's true that close family members were deliberately leaking private information to make him and his wife look bad, all he needed to do was explain that that was the reason he left - either through a leak or an interview. Why sink to their level and reveal all this private stuff? If he hates the press so much, why does he keep feeding the monster?

www.mamamia.com.au/kate-and-meghan-fight/

Wish we knew how the bridesmaid story got out. I can't see Catherine letting that story out or Meghan for the obvious reason that Catherine knew she'd nit reacted well (hence apologising and bringing flowers over) and Meghan isn't going to tell a story that makes her look bad and wasn't accurate anyway

Also it's all a bit bluergh anyway - who couldn't appreciate the situation for both women.

It's likely someone with bits of the story that they put together the wrong way round.

I think it was one of the dress maker's staff that it came from originally.

Why, thank you 😁

I mean I wrote that tongue-in-cheek, but in what ways is it untrue?

Clearly the modern RF no longer resorts to head-chopping, but nevertheless its members live in a bubble of phenomenal "privilege" (which, actually, I consider inhumane) that isolates them from normal life and permits poor choices to be indulged to excess. Prince Andrew is a case in point.

Re the casual cruelty of the upper classes, I'm referring to traditions that might have improved somewhat since WW2 but nevertheless have shaped Harry's background - such as boarding school, nannies, debutantes, the Stiff Upper Lip, etc; an emphasis on preserving wealth and power at all costs. As for blatant depravity, obviously I don't mean the entire upper-class population, but look at freaks like Colin Tennant, whose psychopathic antics seem to have been tolerated without question.

Harry has grown up in this weird environment (I'm not surprised he lost his virginity to some horse-mad spanker 😋) and also takes it for granted that the press are waiting impatiently in the wings of his daily life. Talking to the press, for him, is probably our equivalent of a quick Facebook post.

He is the Pub Bore. Imagine having to spend more than 10 minutes with him.

This may already be on the thread, but the 'GMA interviewer' is Michael Strahan. He's really a great guy as well as a good interviewer and NFL commentator.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Strahan

I've got this vague rescue fantasy of meeting him when we were younger, and him being rather hot in bed, and me sorting him out emotionally and mentally for life, despite my lack of qualifications for that particular task 😋

Thank you for the info. I really liked him. His voice was really warm and soothing. Obviously NFL isn't a big thing in the UK, but his career looks impressive too.

Very impressive, he's a 'Hall of Famer' which is a big deal.

We like him too. His various news pieces have done everything from put us in stitches to make us cry.

When he first started his news career people thought "Oh no, here's another former athlete who thinks he's a 'broadcast journalist'. But he's made people eat those words!

Can’t find any evidence of this tweet, if J.R.Moehringer did like it, (but admit I got sick of scrolling back through all the posts on his twitter page complementing Harry’s story and Moehringers writing).

But if he did like it, this was what he was liking, (I went to the ‘original tweeters’ page and the you tweet posted here )- he was ‘liking’ the fact that the book was reduced in price (like most places) and placed up the front of the store. Hardly the put down you think it is.

if you have a look at Moehringer’s twitter page he’s getting incredibly good feedback about Harry’s story and his writing. He’s not bagging the book, or Harry, far far from it.

What is the point posting something like this to support your point, when it’s so easily questioned and found not to reinforce your point at all?

Are people so desperate to hate on someone they don’t even know, that they will use any supposed evidence to support that hate and not check the validity of what they are posting? I’m starting to see this practice more and more on here. If you think hate is a strong word, I’ve just started using it now, after reading so many very nasty texts on here about Meghan and Harry, and also Kate.

He did like it, then unliked it, so perhaps was accidental. Today he’s been retweeting lots of praise for the book so seems all ok there.

Oh no, I take that back, that was not the one I saw.

He's at it again. He's now saying that the media have put a"dangerous spin" on his words about the number of Taliban fighters he killed. He doesn't take accountability for anything. He has written in his book that he killed 25 Taliban fighters. Regardless of what spin the media put on it, he has told the world that he was complicit in the active killing of the Taliban so he has potentially made himself and his family a target. Not the media, not the Royal family - him!! The media will take comments and spin them until the end of time - they always have and they always will but ultimately he is responsible for putting that information out there this time.

I really feel for him as he is clearly dealing with a lot of trauma but this blame game is not going to end well for him.

Yes it is everyone else's fault that he has written a really dangerous, spiteful little book that has huge consequences for everyone but him.

@ mathsanxiety.
Disagree - were he plain old Mr Windsor I doubt there would be as much interest in him or his story.

Have you read it, Swissmountains?

Disagree - were he plain old Mr Windsor I doubt there would be as much interest in him or his story.

@Bjarnum
Correct, there wouldn't be interest in him if he were Mr Mountbatten Windsor, but he wouldn't be where he is if he were Mr M-W either.

But it was the question of the many hereditary titles and ceremonial military ranks that I was commenting on. Americans don't care at all that he is the Earl of Dumbarton or Baron Kilkeel, or what difference all of that makes, or why being stripped of any of the titles including Duke of Sussex would matter. He lives in America now, so why would it, is the shrugging question. It's all a bit silly really., if you think about it. Also, and completely in contradiction, if he is stripped of the titles, Americans would probably still consider him the Duke of Sussex just to be contrary.

When he keeps banging on about a "competition" between W and himself (and K and M) when the competition appears to be totally one sided.

His facial expressions and body language are completely off in relation to what he is saying. He needs to stop doing interviews if he wishes to be credible. You cannot be easily coached in these aspects of communication.

His family are the least of his problems. He needs psycho-sexual help in particular from an experienced professional to break the phallocentric thinking, not a quack therapist. In his book, he reveals how he forges these links between his penis and his brother, his penis and his heart, his penis and his dead mother and so on. It's all there, from Harry himself.

If you haven't already seen them, @bakalava , the Behaviour Panel on youtube have a back catalogue of body language analysis on Harry, from the Oprah interview onwards. They've just posted one on the Anderson Cooper interview, and I hope they cover the GMA and the TB ones soon too. Your observation that his body language doesn't match his words chimes with much of what the panel observe. More startlingly, that he has displayed a number of hostile expressions towards Meghan.

@Ridemeginger I have heard only good things about them on here. It is a fascinating subject. I remember when behaviour experts were analyzing the behaviour of family annihilator, Chris Watts. He was nodding at the times when he was denying specific allegations and smirking in response to seriously tragic statements. He was terrible at lying but poor Harry is much worse.

He should really hold his ghostwriter to account for tarnishing his image. If you were making serious allegations about antagonism and bullying then why on earth would you choose to bring your dick into your story?

I know, I don't understand it either. Was thinking today, he'd have so much material to write about his feelings about his mum's death, time in the army etc, in a really sensitive and helpful way to others going through the same. I gather the ghostwriter really is a beautiful writer, and between them, they could have come up with something authentic and important, and even if it didn't paint him in the greatest light or have all the answers, it could highlight the importance of talking about these things and working through your feelings to find your best life. Instead, it seems to be a bitter, vindictive and puerile tome that does nothing to promote therapy or encourage moving on to a better place. And he can't move on because he is still stuck trying to rescue/recapture/embody Diana.