Prince Harry is relevant imo

[FloridaCheese]

He's the son of the King.

And will be the brother of the next King

we grew up with him around during QE2's reign

the discord on here for Harry is becoming laughable. Posters desperate to dig him out at every opportunity

Id welcome him back and I'm sure there are others that would too. Not on MN though.

I think it must be awful to be born into the RF. Yes there is luxury and wealth but it’s a boring life in the public eye, which means endless criticism and an expectation of your behaviour.

I don’t understand wanting to marry into it and I completely understand Harry wanting to leave to have a private life. However, I’m not onboard with publicly trashing your family and monetising them.

Harry and Meghan never wanted to leave—they wanted half-in, half-out. That’s not from a tabloid, it’s what they announced on their website. When they didn’t get it, they acted out and went nuclear because they were angry it was denied. They also didn't want a private life otherwise they wouldn't have done all the things they have done in the last six years.

Well you could say that about this entire board...lets shut it down then. Why dont you go say this to all the other posters who start endless threads having a pop at him and Meghan then?

@Spectre8 because it would take a very very very long time to do that?? I don't trust him, he's too quick to say I need my privacy then two minutes later he's on the big TV chat show...🤷

I agree that he’s still relevant in 2025, but he’ll gradually become less relevant as William’s children grow up and have their own families.

I read that the Duchess of Kent died recently, for example. She was married to someone in the RF but I don’t really know who the Duke of Kent is, iyswim.

At one point the Duke of Kent was 5th in the LOS . Think he is now about 40 .

That's a bit unfair to William. He is the heir and was brought up accordingly. Harry as the spare has more freedom. Sadly, he has used his freedom foolishly, complaining on camera, in print and before courts of law.

Andrew was son to the reigning queen, now brother to the king.
How relevant is he?

I suspect that the majority of people don’t really consider Harry royal anymore, in that he has left the country/the job. It’s why people don’t turn up to see him anymore, he doesn’t represent them anymore.

@Mylovelygreendress Not sure who you are talking about but the Duke of Kent is 89! The Duchess was 92 from memory. She presented Wimbledon prizes for years. She worked hard when the RF was bigger but she deliberately went quiet after she became Catholic and then she taught music. By that time, Charles, Andrew, Anne and Edward were doing more though.

Of course Andrew is irrelevant. He’s not going to work again. Has the King got Andrew’s house back yet?

I meant 40 in the LOS

He’s irrelevant. He made his bed he can lie in it.

I suspect the majority of people do consider him to be royal. I wonder which of us is right?

Fifth in line and set to drop further in the next couple of decades or so.

He's an irrelevance adjacent to a growing irrelevance.

Op...you need to talk to the teenagers..any of the royal family isn't relevant to them...this might change in time...

He will be forever either the son of the monarch or in time to come, the brother.

And people need to accept that..

They're all pretty irrelevant in my eyes, but soft power, constitutional monarchy and all that jazz means they're not going anywhere. Until people get really fed up with it all. Maybe in a few generations time

I think the main reason for H coming back to England, and being seen, is because M needs the English connection to flog her tat.
The Royal tag is her USP in America where she wants to stand out
She also posted photos of her son wearing football club/ team shirt with British flag
H has no relevance: no longer a working Royal and too old to be doing the boring Cheeky Chappie routine
He probably wanted to ask dear Papa for more cash; not sure what KC is gaining from this

Exactly, @Mylovelygreendress. Someone can still be an important personal member of the RF without being hugely relevant to the general public or in the news anymore.

This, the whole concept of a royal family is outdated, archaic and totally irrelevant in the 21st century

@FloridaCheese Of course he’s Royal, he always will be. But in 10 years, when George, Charlotte and Louis are young adults, do you really think that public attention will be focused on him? I really doubt it tbh.

There were a lot of positive comments on Tiktok after his latest appearances in the UK. I’m not a fan of his but I think some people would welcome seeing more of him in the UK.

Sadly i think the reason Harry is trying to make a comeback is because thry have failed so badly in the USA and have nothing left. Their only hope now is to get back in with thr royals and leverage it. Even the royal life they so greedily trashed would be better for them than being non entity;s in the USA.

If they had been successful this wouldn’t be happening, let’s face it.

And they need to do it before William is king. So this isn’t Harry regrets his actions and wants to come back, this is Harry and Megan have blown it, the American dream is over, and they need to now do what they can to get back in with the royal family and fast. The only regret is they burned their bridges snd failed.

i think we will see a full on charm offensive playing out, and the kids will make an appearance too,I don’t think William will get involved, unless Charles forces it. When he goes unless Harry and Megan are proper come back queens, he will cut them out, rightly in my view.

From bullying staff, to monetising your family by selling gossip on them and lying about them, is not forgivable in my view, the pair of them bring shame on the royal family and I’m no royalist. And yes so does andrew, in a whole other distasteful manner,

Those children won’t even remember him to be honest.

Of course Harry is royal. He is the king’s son.

It’s possible to be both royal and irrelevant. Harry is undeniably royal by birth but he is outside the royal family and likely to remain so.

Charles can forgive Harry on his own behalf but not on behalf of the British people or the future King. William will make his own decisions about how to solve the Harry problem. So far his judgment has been better than his father’s.

It’s interesting that Amanda Platell and Liz Jones - both Daily Mail columnists - have written pretty positive pieces about Harry this week to the detriment of William.
Amanda has referred to William and Kate as the Prince and Princess of Boring.
A BBC item spoke about Williams’s stubbornness being an unattractive trait in the heir to the throne.
The media tide may be starting to turn.