The Duke & Duchess of Sussex and Family, News and Events 4: April-June 2021

[Betsypaige]

A few points:

1. Despite wanting privacy, we know much more about him NOW than we did back when he was still in the BRF, thanks to his interviews.

2. Speaking about interviews, didn't he said that the Oprah interview would be the only interview about the royals that he would done?

3. Does Harry care about the mental health of his family?

4. If royal life was so bad, why were Harry and Meghan complaining about Archie not getting a title?

5. Related to point number 4, he is free to relinquish his royal titles if it was such a burden to him, I'm sure the BRF and the parliament are more than happy to accommodate.

Harry is angry that he didn’t get his Court, he’s angry/frustrated that William gets more attention, has more position...He’s angry that he wasn’t allowed to do half in/ half out....that’s why he’s attacking the Monarchy, his family, especially his father. Royal life wasn’t as dreadful as he makes it sound until he didn’t get everything he wanted.

As to #3...No, he doesn’t. This is a very deliberate attack on his family, designed to cause them as much pain as possible. He’s justifying exposing them by claiming that he’s doing this for his mental health. Harry doesn’t care about his family at all....and frankly I could say worse about how he feels about them

On Royal Confidential, they briefly mentioned the possibility that H and M might hold future bombshells over BRFs heads (like who made the so-called racist comment) should their titles be threatened. In other words, blackmail. I’m sorry to say that I wouldn’t put it past H and M.

 

[Alison H]

None of it makes much sense. Doctors swear an oath to keep patients' information confidential. If someone in their 30s seeks help, nobody else needs to know about it. Can Harry and Meghan not use a phone?


It's quite possible that Harry raised the possibility of leaving and that Prince Charles or the Queen said that it was a very big decision to make and that he should take some time to think about it. That would make sense, but he's making it sound as if they locked him in his room and wouldn't let him out. How did anyone stop him from leaving, if he wanted to - or is this all Meghan's rubbish about how she had to "turn in" her passport again? Or does he mean that they wouldn't give him unlimited funds if he left?


How's Archie going to feel when he grows up and finds out that his mother claims the only reason she didn't kill herself whilst she was carrying him was that she thought it'd be unfair to Harry?


And what on earth has Dodi Fayed's ethnicity got to do with anything? Is he saying that the reporters would have left Diana alone if she'd been with James Hewitt or James Gilbey or another white boyfriend? What nonsense.

 

[Betsypaige]

More complaining....It makes me sick because obviously Harry was being sent where the family (I guess really HM and Charles) thought he was needed. Whining about traveling to speak to people - presumably to do some good - is disgraceful, and he hasn’t a clue how bad he looks. Also, it’s not as if HM, Charles, etc...never traveled. My god, it never ends.

Prince Harry told her: 'Towards my late 20s everything became really hectic for me, but to the point of exhaustion.

'I was travelling all over the place because, you know, from the family's perspective I guess I was the person who like ''we need someone to go there. Nepal, Harry you go''.

'I was always the yes man I was always the one willing to say yes. But that yes and yes and yes of course yes yes yes led to burnout.

'And it was like someone had taken the lid off. All of the emotions that I had suppressed for so many years suddenly came to the forefront.'

He added: 'I saw GPs, I saw doctors, I saw therapists I saw alternative therapists, I saw all sorts of people.

'But it was meeting and being with Meghan - I knew that if I didn't do therapy and fix myself, that I was going to lose this woman who I could see spending the rest of my life with.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...cumentary.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailUK

 

[Denville]

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On Royal Confidential, they briefly mentioned the possibility that H and M might hold future bombshells over BRFs heads (like who made the so-called racist comment) should their titles be threatened. In other words, blackmail. I’m sorry to say that I wouldn’t put it past H and M.

Its very unlikely that the queen would take away the HRH, Andrew has behaved even more badly, albeit he hasn't attacked his family on TV, and he still has the Dukedom of York and the HRH. And Parliament isn't IMO likely to waste time in this crisis ridden era, on a title for anything short of treason or a very serious crime.. so I dont think that Harry is really worrying about that. I think that they still hope to get money, by being "threatening". They may reason that even if C doesn't pay their security he might restore an allowance if they keep dropping these bombshells and dragging out their various "The RF is bad" stories.
I cant help thinking that perhaps Har has always had a resentment at being the second son, and that Meghan stirred that up.. problaby with "innocent sounding questions" from an American POV about "why should you have less money than your brother" and "why are you seccond in line when you're so much more popular than he is?"

 

[Curryong]

Royal Confidential? The talkfest by journalists from the Fail who routinely bag the Sussexes week after week? Hardly unbiased in their reporting! Sister to the paper sued by Meghan!

The truth is that none of us know what went on behind closed doors in the royal family in the years between Harry and William losing their mother, and the time when Harry and Meghan decided to leave the ranks of the working royals.


You don’t know, I don’t know, nobody in this forum knows what it is like to live the life of a senior royal, brought up in the centre of a rather unemotional family, with all the strictures and conditions surrounding royal life. Harry does know. He lived it for 35 years.


What he says he felt at various points of that life aren’t necessarily untruths or invalid, just because outsiders are coming from another perspective.


Perhaps Harry didn’t feel listened to. Perhaps he did appeal for help against press persecution and was met with indifference or shrugging shoulders. Perhaps he and Meghan did feel that they were both falling apart at the seams. However many holes can be poked in various statements by the Sussexes we just don’t know what really happened, how the other royals reacted, because we weren’t there to witness any of it.

 

[Betsypaige]

Its very unlikely that the queen would take away the HRH, Andrew has behaved even more badly, albeit he hasn't attacked his family on TV, and he still has the Dukedom of York and the HRH. And Parliament isn't IMO likely to waste time in this crisis ridden era, on a title for anything short of treason or a very serious crime.. so I dont think that Harry is really worrying about that. I think that they still hope to get money, by being "threatening". They may reason that even if C doesn't pay their security he might restore an allowance if they keep dropping these bombshells and dragging out their various "The RF is bad" stories.
I cant help thinking that perhaps Har has always had a resentment at being the second son, and that Meghan stirred that up.. problaby with "innocent sounding questions" from an American POV about "why should you have less money than your brother" and "why are you seccond in line when you're so much more popular than he is?"

You’re probably right about the first part...and I completely agree about the second. I’ve always felt that way.

 

[Tarlita]

Just to clarify, as so many of you mentioned.

Harry told his official biographer Angela Levin that it was William who suggested he get professional help. Harry said he ignored the advice for a little while then he did get help and saw a therapist and was really grateful to William for suggesting it in the first place. This was before Meghan came on the scene.

There is a You Tube clip where he speaks to Angela Levin about it. She spent 2 years interviewing Harry.

 

[Denville]

More complaining....It makes me sick because obviously Harry was being sent where the family (I guess really HM and Charles) thought he was needed. Whining about traveling to speak to people - presumably to do some good - is disgraceful, and he hasn’t a clue how bad he looks. Also, it’s not as if HM, Charles, etc...never traveled. My god, it never ends.



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...cumentary.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailUK

What nonsense. He's a hale healthy young man, and he couldn't do some travelllng for his job? I remember the trip to Nepal.. and from what I can recall he seemed to be "showing off" a great deal... I think it was round then that i got the vibe that he was rather desperate to be seen and be liked.. to a degree that wasn't healthy.
but now he's complaining that he was worked too hard and he didn't want to see these awful tiresome people anyway.. so much for "Kindly lovable loving Harry who wants to help people and is so sincerely friendly..."

Moreover if he saw doctors and therapists, prioer I presume to meeting Meghan, how come he's claming that she was the one who got him into therapy?.

 

[muriel]

Royal Confidential? The talkfest by journalists from the Fail who routinely bag the Sussexes week after week? Hardly unbiased in their reporting! Sister to the paper sued by Meghan!

The truth is that none of us know what went on behind closed doors in the royal family in the years between Harry and William losing their mother, and the time when Harry and Meghan decided to leave the ranks of the working royals.


You don’t know, I don’t know, nobody in this forum knows what it is like to live the life of a senior royal, brought up in the centre of a rather unemotional family, with all the strictures and conditions surrounding royal life. Harry does know. He lived it for 35 years.


What he says he felt at various points of that life aren’t necessarily untruths or invalid, just because outsiders are coming from another perspective.


Perhaps Harry didn’t feel listened to. Perhaps he did appeal for help against press persecution and was met with indifference or shrugging shoulders. Perhaps he and Meghan did feel that they were both falling apart at the seams. However many holes can be poked in various statements by the Sussexes we just don’t know what really happened, how the other royals reacted, because we weren’t there to witness any of it.

I agree none of us really know what went on within the family. But there are so many inconsistencies is what H&M have said, as have been pointed out by so many posters here. What I really do not understand is how washing this linen in public actually helps Harry? Or anybody else for that matter? Also, the question that Harry has never addressed is why the BRF did not help him, and why they turned on him?

 

[Betsypaige]

Yeah, well you don’t have to listen to them, Curry, but I like both Richard Eden and Rebecca English. Just because they’re critical of Harry and Meghan, like much of the media, doesn’t make them wrong....and I agree with them.

 

[Heavs]

Harry also said "travelling the world" for the BRF left him burned out. He was never in the top 5 workers for the family and foreign tours are hard work and stressful but it didn't do them often because in his 20s he was still in the Army. He only left the army in June 2015 and it was his choice to join The Firm full time. He had options. Many of the family work much harder for a fraction of the coverage and praise that he always got.

And later whilst he and Meghan did three tours during their time as working royals, one was essentially a private tour to see if they could see themselves settling in SA. They also managed to jet all over the world to Google Camp and other events and holidays when they didn't have to.

He just keeps on giving the impression that he resents having to do any work for the money and privilege, especially meeting people who are less fortunate than him. Which is ..unfortunate.

 

[Betsypaige]

What nonsense. He's a hale healthy young man, and he couldn't do some travelllng for his job? I remember the trip to Nepal.. and from what I can recall he seemed to be "showing off" a great deal... I think it was round then that i got the vibe that he was rather desperate to be seen and be liked.. to a degree that wasn't healthy.
but now he's complaining that he was worked too hard and he didn't want to see these awful tiresome people anyway.. so much for "Kindly lovable loving Harry who wants to help people and is so sincerely friendly..."

Moreover if he saw doctors and therapists, prioer I presume to meeting Meghan, how come he's claming that she was the one who got him into therapy?.

Harry claims he wants to help people, but all he keeps doing is ???? on the people he’s asked to help. I find him to be incredibly disingenuous. Yeah, he had that look of someone who loved people, who honestly cared, but his true colors are emerging now. He had to grit his teeth to get through engagements with those less fortunate, he was upset at having to travel to poor countries to try and do good...It helps explain why he’s moved to Montecito and befriended big name celebrities - I’m sure he doesn’t have to grit his teeth when meeting them.

 

[Alison H]

Harry also said "travelling the world" for the BRF left him burned out. He was never in the top 5 workers for the family and foreign tours are hard work and stressful but it didn't do them often because in his 20s he was still in the Army. He only left the army in June 2015 and it was his choice to join The Firm full time. He had options.

And later whilst he and Meghan did three tours during their time as working royals, one was essentially a private tour to see if they could see themselves settling in SA. They also managed to jet all over the world to Google Camp and other events and holidays when they didn't have to.

And I suspect he'd be complaining even more if William had gone on all the overseas tours and he'd been left visiting factories and some of the other rather less glamorous jobs the Royal Family do. Isn't he supposed to have whinged about the Queen asking Meghan to accompany her to open the new Runcorn-Widnes bridge?


Has he got nothing to say about anything that isn't a complaint?

 

[Curryong]

I agree none of us really know what went on within the family. But there are so many inconsistencies is what H&M have said, as have been pointed out by so many posters here. What I really do not understand is how washing this linen in public actually helps Harry? Or anybody else for that matter? Also, the question that Harry has never addressed is why the BRF did not help him, and why they turned on him?

Perhaps he doesn’t know the answer to either of these questions. Perhaps he’s never been told or has just been blown off by them. We know the Queen for one is non confrontational and tends to ‘ostrich’.


And as far as other senior royals not helping and assisting Harry with the constant and incessant attacks on Meghan by the British tabloids I would suggest that perhaps nobody wanted to tackle the editors because they were afraid the full blowtorch of criticism would be turned on themselves.

 

[Denville]

Harry claims he wants to help people, but all he keeps doing is ???? on the people he’s asked to help. I find him to be incredibly disingenuous. Yeah, he had that look of someone who loved people, who honestly cared, but his true colors are emerging now. He had to grit his teeth to get through engagements with those less fortunate, he was upset at having to travel to poor countries to try and do good...It helps explain why he’s moved to Montecito and befriended big name celebrities - I’m sure he doesn’t have to grit his teeth when meeting them.

It IS off putting,. I never thought Harry was bright and I thought that perhaps he had some problems.. but I thought that he was sincere in wanting to do his job, both in the army and also in his royal duties, because he liked people. People have said that he was "so obviously warm hearted and genuine" in dealing with kids and people esp. those in trouble.. and that that could not be faked... and now, it appears from his OWN LIPS that he WAS faking.. that he didn't like meeting people who were less fortunate than himself- NOT it seems because it upset him to see them but because he was less free than they were and he just didn't want to do those awful tours.
So I'm kind of thinking that my feeling that he was going over the top a lot of the time in his "look here, I'm jolly warm hearted Harry the friendly Prince" was a correct instinct.... and that it was pretty much all an act.

 

[shopgirl44]

Its very unlikely that the queen would take away the HRH, Andrew has behaved even more badly, albeit he hasn't attacked his family on TV, and he still has the Dukedom of York and the HRH. And Parliament isn't IMO likely to waste time in this crisis ridden era, on a title for anything short of treason or a very serious crime.. so I dont think that Harry is really worrying about that. I think that they still hope to get money, by being "threatening". They may reason that even if C doesn't pay their security he might restore an allowance if they keep dropping these bombshells and dragging out their various "The RF is bad" stories.
I cant help thinking that perhaps Har has always had a resentment at being the second son, and that Meghan stirred that up.. problaby with "innocent sounding questions" from an American POV about "why should you have less money than your brother" and "why are you seccond in line when you're so much more popular than he is?"

I think these interviews and bombs are their way of bullying the RF and Charles into giving them everything they want.

There were so many inconsistencies in this interviews. If he so resents all these duties that comes with being members of the Royal family, why did they want to be half-in still? Why did they want a title for Archie if having a title and being a working member of the family is such a burden?

I was flabbergasted by his claim that Diana was chased because she was with a person of color. Wasn’t Diana followed by the paparazzis no matter who she dated after Charles? She was followed everywhere. It wasn’t about Dodd’s race.

 

[Heavs]

And I suspect he'd be complaining even more if William had gone on all the overseas tours and he'd been left visiting factories and some of the other rather less glamorous jobs the Royal Family do. Isn't he supposed to have whinged about the Queen asking Meghan to accompany her to open the new Runcorn-Widnes bridge?

Yes, they even got Robert Lacey singing the tune that Meghan was far too much of a super star to go and open a provincial, northern bridge. They should have given her more glamourous jobs. As if Meghan was better than HM.

Sigh. Even if he wasn't very happy, Harry used to show up to engagements looking like he wanted to be there, meeting people, connecting with them, joking around and that he had Diana's so called "magic touch" even if he did showboat a bit. I liked that Harry, but apparently he didn't exist.

In their engagement interview they said they wanted to "hit the ground running" and Harry was also furious a couple of months ago when he claimed it was suggested Meghan *work* for a living and they take it slow with royal life. This is more revisionist history.

As for the "smear campaign" against Meghan, well her employees should be able to have their say as well. They aren't going to a newspaper they're giving their accounts to an independent law firm.

I don't know Harry, maybe Kate woke up in the middle of the night crying because Meghan singled her out in a petty way during Oprah, William is clearly furious but hasn't gone on GMB to give his side about how awful you made his life. Maybe they're out of her mind with worry about what that stupid cartoon version of Prince George will do to their son. But you're too busy cozying up to one of the actors involved and bragging about it (Orlando Bloom) to worry about the media ripping a child apart in that instance.

 

[Denville]

I think these interviews and bombs are their way of bullying the RF and Charles into giving them everything they want.

There were so many inconsistencies in this interviews. If he so resents all these duties that comes with being members of the Royal family, why did they want to be half-in still? Why did they want a title for Archie if having a title and being a working member of the family is such a burden?

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he wanted to be "half in half out" because without the "half in" doing royal duties, who the heck would know them? Meghan wasn't well enough known until she dated H and got engaged. She had to do at least a couple of years of full time royal work, to get her profile raised in the US and be able to do the interviews and so on that she's done now. and if they had managed to keep the "HIHO" they could tell little stories about the queen and how Archie played with his Granddad P Charles and wore little blue shoes.. and called Princess Anne Ganny Anniie... and the like.
but when they were told they couldnt be HIHO, they got annoyed, ran off to Canada, and then tried to get Charles to pay for them still. He wouldn't so now I suppose they figure they mgiht be able to scare/shame him into restoring some monetary relationship....

 

[muriel]

Perhaps he doesn’t know the answer to either of these questions. Perhaps he’s never been told or has just been blown off by them. We know the Queen for one is non confrontational and tends to ‘ostrich’.


And as far as other senior royals not helping and assisting Harry with the constant and incessant attacks on Meghan by the British tabloids I would suggest that perhaps nobody wanted to tackle the editors because they were afraid the full blowtorch of criticism would be turned on themselves.

I still do not know how airing in public whatever disputes Harry has with his family, real or otherwise, are meant to help Harry, or anybody other than the media he so despises.

 

[Denville]

Perhaps he doesn’t know the answer to either of these questions. Perhaps he’s never been told or has just been blown off by them. We know the Queen for one is non confrontational and tends to ‘ostrich’.


And as far as other senior royals not helping and assisting Harry with the constant and incessant attacks on Meghan by the British tabloids I would suggest that perhaps nobody wanted to tackle the editors because they were afraid the full blowtorch of criticism would be turned on themselves.

because H and Meghan are the only Royals who had criticism? Charles has had years of it. He worked hard, did his job, and it still doesn't stop him from some criticism. So maybe he figures that there's not much that can be done in a democratic society, to stop press criticism and he shrugs it off, does not read it and leaves it alone.
And clearly there were discussion about what to do with Meg and Harry if they wanted to get out or partly get out of royal life. There was clearly a plan of maybe sending them to Africa where they could lead a quiet life some of the year. But its not that easy to arrange for "time out" once a royal has taken on full time responsibilities. and its certainly not possible to give them "half in half out" time to make money on the side. but do you really think that the queen just went "I dont like them very much esp. since Harry's married this American girl and I dont want to bother myself with their problems?"

 

[Mbruno]

So if they are so cold and unfeeling how come a few years ago, Harry said that William had kept on trying to help him and persuade him into therapy? Now it is Meghan who got him into therapy. (and he could not help HER because he was ashamed of her being depressed). that doesn't sound very feeling or loving on Harry's part to me.
how come the unfeeling Charles stepped in and escorted Meghan when she had her father let her down at the wedding and looked like he was making a special effort to be nice to Ms mother....
How come William says the unfeeling Charles works too hard but is a good grandfather? How come the unfeeling Charles took Harry on bike rides.. when Harry says his father never did this?

He literally told Oprah in this new interview, which is way worse than the first one, that Charles told him and William when they were younger that their fate was to suffer as he suffered as young man. Harry's actual recollection of what his father allegedly said was something like that: "‘Well it was like that for me so it’s going to be like that for you’. Then he added to Oprah that: “That doesn’t make sense. Just because you suffered doesn’t mean that your kids have to suffer, in fact quite the opposite."


He also spoke candidly about how bad his drinking and drug problems got. For example, he said: " I was willing to drink, willing to take drugs. I was willing to try and do the things that made me feel less like I was feeling". Then he added: “But I slowly became aware that, okay, I was drinking Monday to Friday, but I’d probably drink a week’s worth on a Friday or Saturday night."


Eventually, he summarized his reasons to leave in the following words: " “That was one of the biggest reasons to leave, feeling trapped and feeling controlled by fear, both by the media and by the system itself which never encouraged the talking about this kind of trauma." But then he added: "Certainly now I will never be bullied into silence"

I don't know if that is all a big act, but he is certainly doubling down, and it is messed up.


EDIT It is interesting that Harry claimed that: "Every single ask, request, warning, whatever it is, to stop just got met with total silence or total neglect" after, however, telling Oprah before that he didn't talk to his family about Meghan's mental health problem because he was ashamed of it.

 

[PetticoatLane]

I actually genuinely worry for Charles and his wellbeing right now. He worked for decades to make a difference to his nation and rebuild his reputation from the gutter, only for his own son to take a wrecking ball to the whole thing in the space of a few weeks and with a kind of cruel glee that's deeply unsettling.

I hope Charles has the support he needs, that he can try not to let this affect him too much, although I suspect that's too much to ask anyone really. I hope he can seek mental health support if he needs it as he attempts to get through this and make the difficult decision to try to rebuild what's been destroyed once more.

 

[Denville]

So although Charles DID make efforts to make their life easier than his had been, and far easier than Philip's had been.. H is having a go at his fahter.
Charles wasn't perhaps the most attentive dad at times but he was not, AFAIK taunting his kids with "I suffered so you've got to suffer". He was just busy with his life and left them to their mother. When she died, he probably COULD have done more, spent more time with them but he did see more of them, tried to see that they had a nice affectionate fun "big sister nanny" whom they liked.. and he sent them to a different easier school than the one he had gone to...
He was IMO too indulgent with boht of them, rather than saying "I've worked hard and suffered so you have to as well." He and the queen allowed Will to take time off royal duties whne he had finished wiht the army, to do a job he liked for a few years and to get married and spend time with his children. Harry was not happy in the army, so he was allowed to leave, and AFAIK, he spent a year or do not doing much Royal duties but off in Africa working with animals for a few months at a time. so this is Harry being expected to suffer?

 

[muriel]

So although Charles DID make efforts to make their life easier than his had been, and far easier than Philip's had been.. H is having a go at his fahter.
Charles wasn't perhaps the most attentive dad at times but he was not, AFAIK taunting his kids with "I suffered so you've got to suffer". He was just busy with his life and left them to their mother. When she died, he probably COULD have done more, spent more time with them but he did see more of them, tried to see that they had a nice affectionate fun "big sister nanny" whom they liked.. and he sent them to a different easier school than the one he had gone to...
He was IMO too indulgent with boht of them, rather than saying "I've worked hard and suffered so you have to as well." He and the queen allowed Will to take time off royal duties whne he had finished wiht the army, to do a job he liked for a few years and to get married and spend time with his children. Harry was not happy in the army, so he was allowed to leave, and AFAIK, he spent a year or do not doing much Royal duties but off in Africa working with animals for a few months at a time. so this is Harry being expected to suffer?

Or perhaps Charles wanted to communicate that life in public service can be hard, and you will probably get criticised like I was. And of course, his dim wit of a son contorts it into the message that he is now spouting!

 

[lirienn]

I have one simple question. I know he's talking about the past as well but...
Is he happy now? Because he seems miserable, stuck in the past and going ballistic on his family again and again and not able to let go and live happy live while his wife is expecting a second child.

 

[AC21091968]

He literally told Oprah in this new interview, which is way worse than the first one, that Charles told him and William when they were younger something like: "‘Well it was like that for me so it’s going to be like that for you’. Then he added to Oprah that: “That doesn’t make sense. Just because you suffered doesn’t mean that your kids have to suffer, in fact quite the opposite."


He also spoke candidly about how bad his drinking and drug problems got. For example, he said: "
“But I slowly became aware that, okay, I was drinking Monday to Friday, but I’d probably drink a week’s worth on a Friday or Saturday night."


Eventually, he summarized his reasons to leave in the following words: " “That was one of the biggest reasons to leave, feeling trapped and feeling controlled by fear, both by the media and by the system itself which never encouraged the talking about this kind of trauma."


I don't know if that is all a big act, but he is certainly doubling down, and it is messed up.

Perhaps Harry & Meghan should have take multiple leaves out of other royal family members' book especially those who have faced relentless attack by the press. I'm not just talking about senior working royals, but also the York Princesses, especially when Palaces do not release public statements in shutting down "freeloader, spongers, ugly stepsisters, snobs" stories. In an interview, Princess Eugenie was asked about the negative press/tabloids and false stories. She did not complained that the royal family institution did not protect Beatrice and herself. Instead she said that one could either take it or simply just rise above it. (Relevant part starts at 31:06 and ends at 32:09). I actually watched the whole interview and throughout the session, Eugenie had praise her family in shaping the person she is today. She also mentioned the great honour in supporting The Royal Family and representing her country.

For me personally, I think this AppleTV documentary, The Me You Can't See is worse than the Oprah's interview in May and the Armchair Expert podcast. At this rate, it would not surprised me if Harry & Meghan continues to throw the Royal Family under the bus or airing dirty laundry in their future projects. I thought the Oprah's interview was the only or last time the Sussexes would talk about the Royal Family, but then how naive was I ...

 

[Roderick]

I actually genuinely worry for Charles and his wellbeing right now. He worked for decades to make a difference to his nation and rebuild his reputation from the gutter, only for his own son to take a wrecking ball to the whole thing in the space of a few weeks and with a kind of cruel glee that's deeply unsettling.

I hope Charles has the support he needs, that he can try not to let this affect him too much, although I suspect that's too much to ask anyone really. I hope he can seek mental health support if he needs it as he attempts to get through this and make the difficult decision to try to rebuild what's been destroyed once more.

Very well put. Harry has been a father for two years. When his children are grown or at least much older, he will find he is not a perfect parent either. We all think we will be before we have children or whilst our children are young. Later on is when reality sets in.

 

[Mbruno]

I have one simple question. I know he's talking about the past as well but...
Is he happy now? Because he seems miserable, stuck in the past and going ballistic on his family again and again and not able to let go and live happy live while his wife is expecting a second child.

A mental health expert actually said exactly what you said above in an interview to The Express, i.e Harry's behavior is not consistent with someone who is presumably happy and in a good place in his life right now. It seems that he has a lot of anger.

 

[Denville]

I have one simple question. I know he's talking about the past as well but...
Is he happy now? Because he seems miserable, stuck in the past and going ballistic on his family again and again and not able to let go and live happy live while his wife is expecting a second child.

I remember thinking before he and Meg left that he was coming across as depressed and unhappy.. and that it was odd when he had just married, was presumably happy with a loved wife and that they were both keen on their new duties. Now, he's left royal life and yes, it seems like he's if anything MORE unhappy. but then, all he has to talk about, it seems is his unhappiness and how badly he was treated. AFAICS they hardly said a word about their charity work in the Oprah interview.. so clearly that wasn't the focus of their lives.

 

[lirienn]

A mental health expert actually said exactly what you said above in an interview to The Express, i.e Harry's behavior is not consistent with someone who is presumably happy and in a good place in his life right now. It seems that he has a lot of anger.

Thank you. I don't see how Meghan helped him because he seems worse now. I don't know whom is more unhappy now. But I totally see him as egoistic person who sees things in black and white. Or actually only black. Happy memories erased.