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Harry wants to come back and ‘help’

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Gottseidank · 16/02/2024 22:55

Harry “is willing to return to a temporary royal role in support of his father during his illness, sources have revealed. In an attempt to help heal the rift in the family, the King and Prince Harry are said to have had several “warm ­exchanges” since Charles ­received his cancer diagnosis.
The duke is now understood to have told friends that he would step into a royal role while his father is unwell.”

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/prince-harry-return-royal-role-king-charles-cancer-dn8tcm8nd

Revealed: Prince Harry ‘seeks royal return to heal rift with King Charles’

Duke said to have had warm exchanges with King after his father’s cancer diagnosis

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/prince-harry-return-royal-role-king-charles-cancer-dn8tcm8nd

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IwishIcouldfinishabook · 17/02/2024 07:43

I thought Harry said this in his interview, but no, unnamed 'sources', which means made up bullshit.

milveycrohn · 17/02/2024 07:44

This story is clearly made up.
Harry did not like being in the royal family.
Imagine him doing an investiture, etc Not happening.

Lampslights · 17/02/2024 07:46

I suspect this is true, he’s offered to undertake royal duties. It’s just a continuation of his self important attitude, the fact William is stepping in or supposed to be, won’t have Harry delighted. He will feel the need to compete.

and let’s face it, Harry and Megan need the royal connection, leveraging is fathers Illness to get back in would shore up their ability to commercialise in the USA.

yesmen · 17/02/2024 07:48

Clearly this a story from Prince Williams people. ]

Now people will stop talking about his disappearence!

Good one Wills!

allthemiddlechildrenoftheworld · 17/02/2024 07:50

@Gottseidank would any association want to be associated with Harry now, after all he has done???? I very much doubt it!! I would not go to watch him opening a paper bag!

unloquacious · 17/02/2024 07:54

foghead · 17/02/2024 07:32

Maybe his dads cancer diagnosis has made him re-evaluate things and given him a better perspective?

Yes, the perspective of not getting an inheritance from Charles.

unloquacious · 17/02/2024 07:55

yesmen · 17/02/2024 07:48

Clearly this a story from Prince Williams people. ]

Now people will stop talking about his disappearence!

Good one Wills!

Are you ok?

Lampslights · 17/02/2024 07:57

milveycrohn · 17/02/2024 07:44

This story is clearly made up.
Harry did not like being in the royal family.
Imagine him doing an investiture, etc Not happening.

I really doubt it’s made up. If he’d not dashed over for 30 min visit. If he’s not rebranded as royal. Not moved from just call me Harry to its prince to you, then maybe, if he’d not done an interview talking about how grateful he was for that 30 mins with his dad, about how he loved his family. Then maybe you’d be right. But clearly in the context of them coming over all royal and loving, it is likely to be true.

Yirk · 17/02/2024 07:59

I think Harry knows that should he lose his Dad any royal returns will not be welcomed by other family members, and he might find himself totally exiled !

mamacorn1 · 17/02/2024 08:01

I would really like Harry and Meg to just go and enjoy their life in The USA…. And hopefully not come to the UK ever again.

IwishIcouldfinishabook · 17/02/2024 08:08

Surely if they needed someone to ' help out' William would be doing more? He's hardly overwhelmed with state duties as far as I can see. Harry won't be coming back, because his children are in the US.

RobinEllacotStrike · 17/02/2024 08:08

It makes sense. Harry needs more material for books.

Devastatedandblindsided · 17/02/2024 08:11

unloquacious · 17/02/2024 07:54

Yes, the perspective of not getting an inheritance from Charles.

Actually hadn't thought of the inheritance angle. God that's depressing.

Lampslights · 17/02/2024 08:16

IwishIcouldfinishabook · 17/02/2024 08:08

Surely if they needed someone to ' help out' William would be doing more? He's hardly overwhelmed with state duties as far as I can see. Harry won't be coming back, because his children are in the US.

Yes but they can try to do the half in half out they always wanted, using their royal half to make money in the USA half, be rich and famous.

Mummyoflittledragon · 17/02/2024 08:17

Gottseidank · 16/02/2024 23:20

What’s ‘largely fabricated’?

William’s utter contempt for Harry and Meghan is evident

Contempt? When did this contempt start?

BounceHighBaby · 17/02/2024 08:18

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BarelyLiterate · 17/02/2024 08:18

What makes the Ginger Whinger think that anyone in Britain wants him back? The Americans can keep him and his trashy wife.

Spectre8 · 17/02/2024 08:18

Just more gossip crap, funny how when the news was only about kate and Charles medical attention was suddenly diverted away as per usual slew of Harry and Megan articles came out.

Happens everytime! Last year they didn't have anything new to report and judt rehashed alot of old stuff.

They certainly make plenty of money off these clickbait articles of pure speculation, citing sources as a wya to make it credible.

Lampslights · 17/02/2024 08:25

Spectre8 · 17/02/2024 08:18

Just more gossip crap, funny how when the news was only about kate and Charles medical attention was suddenly diverted away as per usual slew of Harry and Megan articles came out.

Happens everytime! Last year they didn't have anything new to report and judt rehashed alot of old stuff.

They certainly make plenty of money off these clickbait articles of pure speculation, citing sources as a wya to make it credible.

This is such a lame response when it doesn’t fit the narrative for Harry supporters.

anyway, I think where Harry continues to fall down is it is his side leaking all these stories, about warm exchanges, offering to help etc. the latter of which is simply a continuation of his self important grandiose behaviour..,making sure the right people are around the queen, collaborating with her, now offering to step in when his father is ill.

its the same old self important shit that he wants to make sure the public know about. He would have a chance of success in getting back in if he stopped leaking stories. But they seem simply unable to stop themselves.

Prydddan · 17/02/2024 08:28

Perhaps he was hoping for the BAFTA gig.

But seriously, given that working Royals represent the Head of State, how could H be trusted in a diplomatic role, given his tendency to kiss and tell? Would it be fair to, for example, seat a foreign head of state next to H at a state banquet, given his kiss-and-tell proclivities?

Outthedoor24 · 17/02/2024 08:34

I can see H wanting to get his foot back in the door half in - half out is what he wanted in the first place so he could trade of the Royal connections.

The RF saw through that, and have cut his ability to trade of those connections. Everything from seating positions, reducing the hoards from the balcony, to feathers 🪶 and candles 🕯 he's not been able to get decent photos of him and the senior Royals in years.

So really I can't see William or Charles wavering in their stance now. So much trust has been lost.

CoffeeCantata · 17/02/2024 08:34

mamacorn1 · Today 08:01

I would really like Harry and Meg to just go and enjoy their life in The USA…. And hopefully not come to the UK ever again.

One hundred percent this!

Some rifts can't be healed - what's been done and said can't just be put back in a box. Harry and Meghan were young middle-aged people when they did what they did, not hormonal teenagers - there really is no excuse for them throwing grenades into both their families and then expecting to be able to 'move on'.

William and Catherine will never forgive them, and neither would I in their shoes. Harry's only hope is/was KC, and I expect he's now panicking that KC might not be around for as long as he might have expected. But even if KC gave in to sentimentality over his wayward son, it could never be 'as it was before' because of what he's said about Camilla. I don't see a way back.

If the marriage lasts, then I wish them (and especially their children, who are the ones I feel sorry for) a peaceful private life in California. If it doesn't, I think it will be awful for Harry - he'll want to come back to the UK for at least part of the year and I guess KC will give him a cottage somewhere to live in, But he'll never be allowed to be part of the working RF again - respect and affection for him has drained away amongst royal supporters in the UK. No-one would welcome him cutting their ribbon! And of course he'd need to spend a lot of time the US to be near his children. Meghan might not allow him to bring them to the UK - she'd have to agree, surely?

Only the misty shadows in my crystal ball!

Samcro · 17/02/2024 08:37

who are the sources?
only yesterday we had the interview where H was going to tell all about KC, didn't happen, now this.

MooFroo · 17/02/2024 08:39

Nope don’t want him back thanks
little snake

Coronateachingagain · 17/02/2024 08:46

Samcro · 17/02/2024 08:37

who are the sources?
only yesterday we had the interview where H was going to tell all about KC, didn't happen, now this.

I doubt the The Times will disclose

But this looks carefully choreographed

1- go and make a 30 minute pitch to the King about "helping" (and coming back to the fold)
2- let it sink for 1-2 weeks
3- go embark in a new privacy tour in one of the Commonwealth countries. Launch new regal website at same time
4- do some royal like engagements like visiting a local center that has nothing to do with Invictus but puts your profile in the "right place"
5- Leak something to the media so people start to get used to the idea of you coming back

Generally trying to do a bear hug.

😅 I am not a royalist but like the Palace won't notice the moves - when they wrote the book in the first place

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