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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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Lockupyourbiscuits · 17/02/2024 08:51

The day someone came up with Invictus ( I don’t believe it was Harry ) and let him head it was the biggest mistake of the Royal Family
They should have kept it under the monarch and let individual members including Harry support it so it boosted the Royal Family as a whole

He has basically run off with something brilliant set up by the Royal Family and is living in PR heaven off it

Without Invictus Harry and Meghan would have very little
They basically elevated the spare above the heir by giving it to him - no wonder he thought he was better and could do a flounce

Lifestooshort71 · 17/02/2024 08:58

I watched the interview with H on the snowy slopes yesterday and my thoughts were....he thought before he spoke and chose his words carefully so as not to offend anyone, he is very happy in the USA with Meghan and their children, he hopes to pop in and see his family when he's in the UK or en route somewhere else and his conversation with his father KC was a private one. All very admirable and well handled. I like the way he spoke without Meghan being there as attention would have been centred on her (was she smiling, what did she really mean, was she pulling his strings? Etc etc) because he seems to have been portrayed as her plus one recently - not a good look. My biggest take from the interview though was how he constantly turned it back to the reason he was there. I thought he did well.

LipstickLil · 17/02/2024 09:03

I suspect it's true. The RF is looking very thin at the top with only Anne (age 73), Camilla (age 76) with a husband having treatment for cancer, and William, who has a sick wife and three kids at home, holding the fort. And what all of that does is to present Harry with an opportunity to make himself look important - here comes Harry to the rescue of the RF!

What's more, the timing couldn't be better - he and dear old Megsy haven't exactly been overwhelmed with work and opportunities of late. She's attended some bullshit awards ceremony, the red carpet of which she milked for every flashbulb, and he presented some bullshit award at a ceremony in Las Vegas for what? Something to do with American football - hardly fitting work for a prince. And then this week they're in Canada, Megs posing in a million different outfits and grinning like the Cheshire Cat, while both of them try desperately to look relevant. A high profile return to the RF is exactly what Harry needs ...

I hope William says 'No' or 'Fuck off' or both.

Prydddan · 17/02/2024 09:16

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!

In addition, if the role he wants to come back to were to be distilled into a job description - he has shown that he is constitutionally (in both sense of the word) unsuited to fulfil that role.

notimagain · 17/02/2024 09:20

@Lockupyourbiscuits

The day someone came up with Invictus ( I don’t believe it was Harry ) and let him head it was the biggest mistake of the Royal Family
They should have kept it under the monarch and let individual members including Harry support it so it boosted the Royal Family as a whole

Invictus was always Harry’s own train set from almost the get go. It’s arguable who actually came up with the current set up but somebody, supposedly Harry got the idea having seen the (? ) Warrior Games in the US,

AFAIK it wasn’t set up by the RF, and they certainly didn’t pass it on to him or give the leadership to him.

Spectre8 · 17/02/2024 09:22

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.

Exactly, just goes to show these sources are bs most of the time. They got it wrong. It was just an opportunity for the media to continue to generate money as they know people click through to the article.

Spectre8 · 17/02/2024 09:25

Lifestooshort71 · 17/02/2024 08:58

I watched the interview with H on the snowy slopes yesterday and my thoughts were....he thought before he spoke and chose his words carefully so as not to offend anyone, he is very happy in the USA with Meghan and their children, he hopes to pop in and see his family when he's in the UK or en route somewhere else and his conversation with his father KC was a private one. All very admirable and well handled. I like the way he spoke without Meghan being there as attention would have been centred on her (was she smiling, what did she really mean, was she pulling his strings? Etc etc) because he seems to have been portrayed as her plus one recently - not a good look. My biggest take from the interview though was how he constantly turned it back to the reason he was there. I thought he did well.

💯

He did well bringing it back to invictus and stop the continuation of questions about Charles. You could see the reporter trying but it was well responded

Lockupyourbiscuits · 17/02/2024 09:29

notimagain · 17/02/2024 09:20

@Lockupyourbiscuits

The day someone came up with Invictus ( I don’t believe it was Harry ) and let him head it was the biggest mistake of the Royal Family
They should have kept it under the monarch and let individual members including Harry support it so it boosted the Royal Family as a whole

Invictus was always Harry’s own train set from almost the get go. It’s arguable who actually came up with the current set up but somebody, supposedly Harry got the idea having seen the (? ) Warrior Games in the US,

AFAIK it wasn’t set up by the RF, and they certainly didn’t pass it on to him or give the leadership to him.

Edited

I understood it was set up with the help
of the Royal Foundation- who did set it up?
Can someone explain how it came about - I’m sure Harry on his own didn’t have wit or means to do it

MintyCedric · 17/02/2024 09:31

foghead · 17/02/2024 07:32

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

It’s been less than a fortnight and Harry is already planning and interview in the US discussing his father’s cancer diagnosis.

He really is a repulsive little twerp.

caringcarer · 17/02/2024 09:35

After everything he's said about RF and done, I don't think he'll be welcome anymore. They don't trust him. I read at the time of Queen's funeral that the only thing Sophie Wessex would speak to him about was the weather.

Prydddan · 17/02/2024 09:38

@Lockupyourbiscuits
The Games were launched on 6 March 2014 by Prince Harry at London's Copper Box arena, used as a venue during the 2012 Olympics. Having seen a British team competing at the US Warrior Games held in Colorado in 2013, Harry wished to bring the concept of a similar international sporting event to the United Kingdom.[2][3][4][5] With the backing of Mayor of London Boris Johnson, the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games and the Ministry of Defence, the event was put together over ten months.[6][7] £500,000 of funding for the project came from the Endeavour Fund, an arm of the Royal Foundation Prince Harry had created specifically for veterans' recovery, with an equal amount being pledged by Chancellor George Osborne from Treasury funds generated by fines imposed on banks as a result of the Libor scandal.[6][8] The Games were also sponsored by Jaguar Land Rover.[5] Boeing was announced as a sponsor in 2018 and became a presenting partner in 2023. Speaking at the launch, Prince Harry said that the Games would "demonstrate the power of sport to inspire recovery, support rehabilitation and demonstrate life beyond disability".[9] He also said that their long-term objective was to ensure that injured troops are not forgotten as Britain's involvement with the War in Afghanistan comes to an end.[6][10]

FunnyMoone · 17/02/2024 09:47

Harry can't do right for doing wrong. Damned if he does , damned if he doesn't

TerriPie · 17/02/2024 09:52

I don't think we'll ever know the true story, most of the 'a source said' articles tend to come from media outlets that have been sued by Duke of Sussex so they have points to score.

I just wish all the haters would stop clicking on all the articles about H & M, better to just totally ignore everything about them and maybe they'll stop selling out on RF all the time, it's everyone buying the books, watching Netfix, reading the articles etc that are perpetuating the car crash that Harry has become.

That lost little boy we all took into our hearts has become a very disturbed and lost man and I can't see a happy ending especially now he's trapped in America until his kids have grown up.

Devastatedandblindsided · 17/02/2024 09:56

TerriPie · 17/02/2024 09:52

I don't think we'll ever know the true story, most of the 'a source said' articles tend to come from media outlets that have been sued by Duke of Sussex so they have points to score.

I just wish all the haters would stop clicking on all the articles about H & M, better to just totally ignore everything about them and maybe they'll stop selling out on RF all the time, it's everyone buying the books, watching Netfix, reading the articles etc that are perpetuating the car crash that Harry has become.

That lost little boy we all took into our hearts has become a very disturbed and lost man and I can't see a happy ending especially now he's trapped in America until his kids have grown up.

So true

YetMoreNewBeginnings · 17/02/2024 09:56

unloquacious · 17/02/2024 07:54

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

Harry will already know if there is a trust fund set up for him from Charles as these are set up years in advance.

There will be no inheritance from his father. The royals don’t give out inheritances - William will inherit everything because of the clause that means a sovereign to sovereign transfer attracts zero inheritance tax. Just as Charles inherited absolutely everything from his mother, William will inherit absolutely everything from his father.

unloquacious · 17/02/2024 09:58

YetMoreNewBeginnings · 17/02/2024 09:56

Harry will already know if there is a trust fund set up for him from Charles as these are set up years in advance.

There will be no inheritance from his father. The royals don’t give out inheritances - William will inherit everything because of the clause that means a sovereign to sovereign transfer attracts zero inheritance tax. Just as Charles inherited absolutely everything from his mother, William will inherit absolutely everything from his father.

Even private properties etc (if they have them)?

YetMoreNewBeginnings · 17/02/2024 09:59

unloquacious · 17/02/2024 09:58

Even private properties etc (if they have them)?

Yes. Everything goes from one to the other.

It’s why things like jewellery are loaned for life as it means it all comes under the zero banding.

Flopsythebunny · 17/02/2024 10:00

Mummyoflittledragon · 17/02/2024 08:17

Contempt? When did this contempt start?

When Harry married a "woman of colour" who was not only American, but had been divorced

unloquacious · 17/02/2024 10:01

YetMoreNewBeginnings · 17/02/2024 09:59

Yes. Everything goes from one to the other.

It’s why things like jewellery are loaned for life as it means it all comes under the zero banding.

So he really is a Spare then 😂

HaverStockHere · 17/02/2024 10:04

Harrys had enough I think of being an outcast and trying to forge his new life very unsuccessfully although they do have pots of money.

Especially maybe after not being invited to one his best friends weddings the Duke of Westminster

Harry's finally growing up

He won't ever be trusted though

And as for Megan well she's burnt all her social bridges

IwishIcouldfinishabook · 17/02/2024 10:07

unloquacious · 17/02/2024 10:01

So he really is a Spare then 😂

Yes tax avoidance by the super rich is hilarious 😂 👍

HaverStockHere · 17/02/2024 10:08

Barely anyone gives a shiny shit that Megan was a woman of colour in the UK

That is absolutely not why we hate the woman

She went on Oprah and said the whiney stupid things she said

Can't be trusted and chatted shit about the royal family

Stupid woman

Samcro · 17/02/2024 10:09

its all a smoke screen so that no one says wheres william.

goingdownfighting · 17/02/2024 10:10

God it's like Edward and Wallace

(I'm sure it isn't but he was a bit of a whinger too)

AgnesX · 17/02/2024 10:10

foghead · 17/02/2024 07:32

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

Family relationships can be so twisted but despite Harry's bitterness at being the younger brother and his subsequent antics, Charles is still his father. The prospect of Charles' death (sooner rather than later) may well have given him a shock and brought him up short.

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