Harry just protecting the other "spares"

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Shocked to see in this mornings Telegraph that Harry is concerned for the other "spares" He just wants to break the bad parenting pattern and stop it happening to Charlotte or George. If I was W&K I would be absolutely LIVID by now. What does anyone else think?

www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/prince-harry-interview-bryony-gordon-spare-book/

Yes it is a worrying new tactic that he has started to weaponise William's children. And this is about William and not about the children, or their futures.

Funny how Harry seems immune to the fact he’s continued the pattern by having a “spare”” himself. Except, of course, that is different. Not.

how disgusting to stick his nose in like this. Who made him the parenting expert?

wonder how Harry feel if he was told his upbringing made him unsuitable as a parent and so his kids were going to be removed?

I think Harry has implied (without mentioning the specific rumour) that it actually came from Camilla. But he also blames her for the original BM dress crying story when the author of that story suggests that the source was different. Timing does make the Sussex camp prime suspects

It's completely possible that W had an affair, but there seems to be zero evidence, just rumours being repeated and reported.

Good grief. Harry has no idea what he's talking about. The Prince and Princess of Wales are doing a great job of raising their children. Let Harry near them and he'll undo all the good they've done.

I used to think he seemed like a nice enough man, but since he left the palaces and their specialist teams there, he seems very silly.

Just shows how hard the palace worked at protecting his image.

Harry is clearly desperate for William's attention and isn't getting it. It is the way of the narcissist. I hope William hasn't even bothered to block him, just continues to ignore him.

Perversely, I wonder if Harry is enjoying the thought that his words mean that the RF have to have more security, have less freedom than they might otherwise have in an evolving, more modern version that Charles may have been interested in introducing. Is he trying to ensure that the Cambridge kids have a shit upbringing due to needing to be protected?

@Ridemeginger

Maybe but he is the one they will end up hating for it in the long run.

He is acting like a child having tantrums. He is the most negative person I can think of. If he would just turn the coin he would see he has many more advantages in life than most

True. But now he's implied W&K are not bringing them up properly, they will be forever scrutinised in their every move for signs of resentment, rivalry, unhappiness - signs that they have "Spare Syndrome". The nasty fucker has already done the damage.

I laughed when he told everyone the queen bought a waffle maker for them, she had a wicked sense of humour. They've been producing waffle ever since.

The "save the monarchy" thing confuses me. Save it from what, its inherent concept? Its whole premise is "unequal birthright"... Surely if you're concerned about equality, the only way is to abolish it?

Like I'm truly confused. Does he want everyone to get a chance to be King? How far does this opportunity extend? Family? Extended family? Nation-wide lucky dip?

Sadly, I think you’re right.

Isn't that doormat from the eponymous high street shop?

Did he actually say that or is it just reported that he did? Sounds batshit.

I wonder what kind of life Harry's kids are going to have?

Brought up surrounded by other millionaire children, needing constant heavy protection both security and media.

Becoming aware as they mature that they are linked to the royal family, & trying to understand their identity within this dynamic separate from their parents drama.

They'll be expected to do great things with all their privilege. Go to Harvard/ become actors/ be celebrities in their own right.

And we know the stories of the privileged children of Hollywood celebs is often tragic as they find it hard to form their own identity.

Yes being a royal child is hard but it does also have a built in role, which can be useful for structure, and some built in protection in the respect for the role & institution.

Harry is deluded thinking he's taken away the risk for his children he's just replaced it within a different context.

The more he talks the more unhinged he comes across, the more William has my sympathies for having had to put up with this spoilt brat moron all these years. It’s got to a stage where I can’t physically look at Harry for more than a few seconds as he makes me feel urgh. His smug face, his smirks, the evil glint in his eye are just 🤮. He has gone from my favourite royal (pre M days) to me being absolutely repulsed by him. I even felt slight envy (not sure that’s the right word, maybe wistful) at her getting him. 😬🥴

I'd be rather stupid to expect them to.

But if they're publicly being talked about, I can form an opinion.

If my sister and I were famous, and I went on TV, saying that the culture of toxic competition around board games in her house was damaging my nephews, Kate might well hear and think, "Christ, she's a knob".

Same difference.

He actually needs them to grown up as whiny self pitying arseholes with a total lack of self awareness to validate himself

Louis wasn’t even 2 years old when Harry & Meghan moved overseas, how much can they really know about his life and how he’s being parented?

How can he support the monarchy as he claims he does, without the role of the spare existing??
He's so simplistic in his thinking.

He's basically saying: I'm a good person, I see where everyone else is wrong, if I point out everyone else's faults I can make the world a better place.

What idiotic grandiose dangerous unkind thinking.

He's a terrible advert for therapy.

Some sort of talent show maybe, like the Eurovision Song Contest but with Commonwealth juries voting first and then throwing the phone lines open for the public vote.

The winner gets to be monarch for a year.

The contestants would have to demonstrate their prowess in a number of categories: writing and performing an original song; obstacle course; making a speech; and swim wear.

I think that has Harry's level of gravitas about it.

I don't think logic features in many of Harry's claims.
I do wonder what he thought when he saw Louis sitting happily on Pa's lap during the jubilee parade.

Expressed in totally the wrong way but a very valid concern. Look at the previous four 'spares':

George V- probably the one who was successful, even though thrust into it in late twenties.
George VI- became King and then essentially chain smoked himself to a premature death aged in his fifties.
Princess Margaret- a failed marriage, great deal it seemed of unhappiness and died a premature death aged 71.
Prince Andrew- an alleged sex offender, who settled a claim out of court and this has damaged the monarchy as much as anything.