Harry wants to come back and ‘help’

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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

wildernesssw · Today 18:06

The Commonwealth is Empire 2.0 remember, according to Harry's NF series. So of course they would not want or accept a Commonwealth role.

Such an insult to the memory of his grandmother who held the Commonwealth so dear!

@Overtheatlantic So, hang on, your dream life would be to appear on Oprah trashing your family and then produce a documentary series giving the entire world a voyeuristic sight of all your imagined problems and complaints? That's the best possible life you could imagine for yourself? Wow. Have you considered therapy?

Hasnt he got another couple of books to reel out as part of the Spare publishing deal.

Didnt he accuse membersof yne Royal family of questioning the color of Archie's skin in a negative way...and said Royals were named by 'accident'.

Didnt he say he was waiting for an apology before even contemplating healing the rift.

Didnt he call The Queen a villan.

Wow....just wow!!!

Well rebutted it was an odd take

what I cannot understand is breaking away to only continue the dysfunctional tradition that places them on birth above others, placing titles on children, and to insist on forms of address. To choose to be addressed in an archaic and privileged manner

Yes I don't think generational dysfunction disappears overnight - I think it takes self reflection and hard work. I also think in situations where estranged family members are ill or struggling with their own stuff it's temping to return and offer to help out. Hope he can continue to focus on his own unit.

Well they were happy enough to accept them before deciding to leave

Perhaps, like so much else, they only decided the Commonwealth was less admirable when they didn't get their own way?

Is that it?
I thought he was stepping up

I suspect what Harry wants is all the bells and whistles with no scrutiny and no negative press intrusion. The rest of the Royals know that they need to do deals with the press because they all depend on the Monarchy surviving for their own benefit. Harry wants what all the ' spares' and minor Royals have- enormous privilege, never having to worry about putting food on the table no worrying about their kids getting a good job, or a decent education etc and never having to even know what a bill looks like but doesn't want the ( pretty minor)down side. . The only difference between Harry and his family is that they know what they have to do to keep the Monarchy alive. Harry doesn't.

@Puzzledandpissedoff didn't Meghan have Commonwealth symbols in her veil lace 😂

I don't expect consistency from those two, or their supporters!

We pay the royal family to have private lifes. The more I read and listen the more I think we are selling ourselves short and we are mugs for letting it continue. What effing privacy the amount of money they get from the public and now they want privacy.

Am not a great fan of either of the brothers and think Harry has handled his move to America so badly but…William is not exactly oozing with charm and charisma.
Ok so Catherine has been unwell and is recuperating ,but William really has been hiding away using the excuse of caring for wife and kids.
With all the help, domestic and otherwise you would think he could manage to get out and about a bit more,especially with his Father being off duty as well!
The RF PR machine is not doing very well at restoring any kind of damage to reputation/ relevance.
Think they have all given up TBH .

Didn't Meghan have Commonwealth symbols in her veil lace 😂

She did, yes - all 53 of them

The Times literally told you where the story came from lol

No he hasnt ….

He has had MULTIPLE interviews in Canada over the last week

He hasnt once said this. Have a google and see what he says

Their credibility went a long time ago and it weren't because of Harry and Megan. Young people are not interested in the royals. I think they are a bunch of benefit scroungers. I think Harry is leaning more Megan than she is on him. Harry and the royals have been supported by the British public throughout their lives. It's not easy to build a life from scratch it takes a lot of graft. I think the royal family will have to become self sufficient eventually and they know it.

I am a royalist, but the return of Harry to royal duties would turn me into a republican. I find the idea of him undertaking royal duties utterly repugnant. He has made his disdain for Britain extremely clear. He has embarrassed us abroad, criticised his family, undermined the monarchy and made lots of money from it.

He was brave to tell his story it couldn't have been easy for him.

In terms of wealth short term (as in their lifetime) Charles doesn’t need the monarchy financially if it was abolished and the same if William was King. For Charlotte and Louis it would be in their interests for the monarchy to be abolished in William’s reign as the inheritance would go three ways

Lol! Guess who else is going to the Baftas? People who are going thete for a night out, alongside doing an actual job in the film industry. Going to a glitzy dinner is not ' work'!
Anyway I can't believe I've got caught up in this Royal nonsense. I'm off to slap myself on the wrist!

Carpediemmakeitcount · Today 18:43

Teentaxidriver · Today 18:36

I am a royalist, but the return of Harry to royal duties would turn me into a republican. I find the idea of him undertaking royal duties utterly repugnant. He has made his disdain for Britain extremely clear. He has embarrassed us abroad, criticised his family, undermined the monarchy and made lots of money from it.
He was brave to tell his story it couldn't have been easy for him.

"Brave" isn't a term I'd apply here at all. He's cowardly, mean, and avaricious.

you nailed it

totally agree with this

This is one of the problems when you publicly lie about your family. Defame them. Tell "your" truth and not "the" truth. You lose credibility and if you were to try to do something noble, no one is going to believe you have any good intentions. Harry F'd up big time

I mean... a cynic might posit that they didn't have a problem with the original concept of hereditary hierarchy per se, just where they ranked in it...

Land and estate they have inherited because of their royal status and money that they have had from the sovereign grant £86.3m. They want a private life no one can sell stories about them they must remain a mystery while they take money from the people. What is wrong with us it's only a book and an interview with Opera?

There has been many scandals that have come out of the royal family and Andrew being one of them. Harry struck while the iron was hot.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-interactive/2023/apr/05/revealed-royals-took-more-than-1bn-income-from-controversial-estates-king-charles-queen-duchies-cornwall-lancaster

https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-57559653