Harry's new interview

[Viviennemary]

Harry has just given an interview quite a long one. I only heard a snippet and i'm totally incensed. Harry has said he doesn't know how long Charles has left. Who says that on TV for the whole nation to hear. What is the matter with the man. He is an absolute disgrace.

Catherine didn’t have cancer ?

I think these interviews just show how much he misses the RF advisors and the BP machine. He's a 40 year old man continuing to complain about the consequences of a decision he made years ago. In previous interviews he complained his father had cut him off financially (he's 40!) he now says he's forgiven the RF and wants a reconciliation. Surely some of his current advisors could tell him just how badly these interviews are landing with the general public. These constant snipes from a man living a life of luxury in the US are tiresome. He needs to stop the interviews, find a purpose and move on. As he gets older, his relevance will diminish, yes he was part of the RF, but he chose not to 'serve' the country. With that choice comes consequences.

Yes. I would still want a relationship. Also Charles does have to say bad things in front of Harry. He just has to be a good person. Besides be honest how many interviews has Harry done and how much substance has he given away. Not much. So that irrational fear of "he will disclose to the press" is false if that is what they fear.

It hasn't been "all these years" though. We know because Harry leaked it that he and Chas met briefly after his cancer diagnosis early last year. As other posters have pointed out his dad probably isn't allowed to talk to him due to conflict of interest in the case Harry chose to bring about. Whether they will talk again after this shambles remains to be seen but no doubt we'll find out soon enough, when H needs a few more quid and gives an interview to some quarter of the media he professes to hate.

We got the flag down by popular unrest - here in Kent we remember what the monarch did to Wat Tyler after promises made by the King were broken. Ignore the people at your peril you live in your gilded cages partly as a result of our wills.

It is also clear now that everything that they were accused of during Mexit was true:

• They wanted to move abroad to have more freedom to control their own PR (disaster so far)

• They wanted to merchandise their royal connections (going pretty badly too)
• They wanted to set up a rival court in LA to prove they were better and more popular (they have said this openly even though it is demonstrably not true).
• They wanted to keep IPP status while they did this. Harry has now said this quite clearly, even if he thinks he hasn’t.

Essentially, they wanted the British public to pay for them to exploit the British royal image overseas for profit, while at the same
tome undermining the image of the RF. And they didn’t expect anyone to protest.

The level of entitlement is obscene.

Yes. I think stepping away was about them becoming ‘celebrities’ rather than royals. The problem is the celebrity bit comes from being royal.

I hope the tiara story is true. Apparently they moved Eugenie’s wedding so Harry could get married first as Meghan was pregnant (that’s what the glances during the ceremony when children were mentioned were all about!)

Megan wanted the tiara promised to Eugenia and was told no. Harry called up his elderly grandmother shouting about what Meghan wanted Meghan gets. Now the actual Queen, the boss didn’t take too kindly and said ‘I would actually say that Meghan gets what she is given!’

If that is true then i still love the Queen as no one pushed her around.

Yep. Maintaining & improving lifestyle & status the crux & informs all.

Presumably the ones that he didn't do a hatchet job on, like Anne, Sophie, Edward, and his cousins. But he's again deluded if he thinks they won't be collectively upset that he's raking the monarchy through the mud again. I imagine Anne and Edward in particular will be appalled that he's publicly raised when Charles might die.

Agree. The interviewer last night was basically fangirling over him.

Would love to see him have the balls to take on Emily Maitliss.

It's not just what Harry might leak. It's what he might misunderstand/misinterpret/make up on the grounds that:

"Whatever the cause, my memory is my memory, it does what it does, gathers and curates as it sees fit, and there's just as much truth in what I remember and how I remember it as there is in so-called objective facts."

I wouldn't want to talk to him either.

It's the question so many have wondered about, but with the pettish response to even the mildest questions Harry's demonstrated before there's every chance he'd have walked out and that would have spoiled the BBC's "scoop"

I'm only surprised, given Harry's attitude about the family wishing to harm him and his comment that his mother was "basically murdered", that he hasn't yet accused them of doing exactly that to Diana

Maybe in a future interview ...

The UK press was positively hagiographic about Meghan and her marriage to Harry until she and he started accusing them of racism. That went down like a bucket of cold sick, because it wasn't true.

Then they preached that hoi polloi should stop flying to save the planet, before promptly hopping on Elton John's private jet to go on holibobs. THAT was the moment that it turned.

The British press knew things about Meghan that the Palace also knew and asked them to keep to themselves, which they obediently did. But when, in journalists' minds, she failed to uphold her end of the bargain by painting them as little better than quislings writing for the Voelkischer Beobachter, they quite reasonably decided the gloves were off. They weren't going to spill the stuff they'd discovered about her behaviour towards Royal staff, or in the run up to the engagement announcement, because the Palace had asked them not to. But they weren't going to treat her with kid gloves anymore either.

Same with Harry. The media obediently spiked the many stories about his, shall we say, less than Royal behaviour over the years, and went with the carefully crated cheeky chappy image the Palace demanded. But now that he's been drgaging them through the courts, they're understandably less keen to toe the line, and since he's not a proper royal anymore, they don't have to fear losing access.

Sure they'll keep Liz Jones and Bryony on the payroll to write the odd sympathetic piece, just in case he has any British fans left. other than that, though, that particular ship has sailed.

There are many people that would delighted to have Harry and his family to come to visit.

Among the general public? No, really, very few people give a shit.

Most importantly, this is Henry's s country and he is entitled to come to visit with his children whenever he wants.

Who's stopping him?

By virtue of who he is, is also entitled to life- long security which is not a Royal perk.

That's simply incorrect, but facts are petty useless here.

It didn't get as far as popular unrest, and Wat Tyler was positively licking Richard ii's arse at the London Bridge meeting.

Tyler was killed by William Walworth after he attacked John Newton, unprovoked, when the King had offered him assurances and safe passage.

They can visit if adequate notice is given. It's Harry wanting his own way as usual. And if he doesn't get it he gives an interview listing his grievances

He says that if he returns for non Royal duties he doesn't get security. Not sure that's the case? He says if he is invited by his family he gets security, if he comes for any other reason he doesn't. He is blaming Charles, who can "step aside" to let the process happen and let his personal risk assessed properly. He is blaming the Royal household for stopping this from happening.

He does seem to enjoy being the "most at risk", he mentioned QE2 having a lower risk than him. That feels narcissist as I suspect his behaviour (such as parties etc) caused higher risks.

He also mentioned that he wanted an official role , after leaving, but it was rejected by the "household"..it was the Queen who rightly saw he would milk the brand for cash.

He says "from disclosure some people want history to repeat itself, which is pretty dark" He won't say who they are "at this point". Another threat for Spare2?

He said his family "not only didn't keep me safe but signalled to every other government around the world not to protect us"

This is yet another damming interview to add to his previous "truths". It is in no way offering an olive branch and I can imagine his family are glad they are NC.

Absolutely agree with this

He says that if he returns for non Royal duties he doesn't get security. Not sure that's the case? He says if he is invited by his family he gets security, if he comes for any other reason he doesn't.

I imagine this probably is true though? The bit he has deliberately not said is “If I return for non-royal duties I get the same deal as my aunts and uncles and cousins”. Which is the way it works (unless in the 28 day notice period RAVEC identify a higher threat level which requires more security).

No-one else in his family other than Charles, Camilla and the Wales family get anything more than that (unless they are on royal duties). If the extended family is with the King, or at one of their residences, they are under the same security blanket as the King then, but not otherwise.

By that sentiment, then surely Meghan should find it in her heart to forgive her father and allow her children to meet their maternal grandfather before he dies?

After all, her love language is feeding people and making them feel welcome.

Surely she needs to do the decent thing and extend an olive branch?

The Royal photographer Arthur Edwards has nailed it:

'When Harry was a full-time royal he lived in the most secure place in the country. It was his choice to give all it up to move to a country where gun crime is rife. The truth is Harry does have security because he has employed an ex-Met officer to protect him — but the Duke has to pay his wages.'

That's the issue in a nutshell. Harry, who no longer pays taxes in the UK, wants UK taxpayers to fund his lifestyle choice.

I think it’s unacceptable that the BBC just allowed him to spout a lot of untruths and misleading statements without any challenge. It is the job of news journalists to do exactly that. Anyone watching that interview without knowing anything else about the case would think H and his family were being thrown to the wolves.

Yes, it's double standards. H&M can say what they want to the media and the RF should forgive them.

But Thomas Markle is excluded because he spoke to the media.

It isn't a consistent approach...

@Viviennemary Harry has said he doesn't know how long Charles has left. Who says that on TV for the whole nation to hear.

"I don't know how much longer my father has." does not mean "My father is dying soon." It means that he does not know how much longer his father has.

In other words, the standard of communication is so poor that Harry has no idea whether Charles could be around for 2 more years, or 20 years.

In other words, whatever Harry is told might be sold to the media, so tell him nothing.

That's because of his actions