Shortly after the most recent VE Day event, which celebrates the unconditional surrender of Germany’s armed forces, as well as those of its allies from WWII, Prince Harry’s isolation in the US became a hot topic once more.
Royal author Robert Jobson Royal photographer Arthur Edwards got candid about the apparent struggles the Duke has been facing.
They discussed it all on an interview for The Sun’s Royal Exclusive show and Mr Jobson was the first to hypothesize this ‘sadness’.
“Maybe there was a degree of that bitterness in what he gave that interview with the BBC, a sense, again, he wasn’t there – and he knows he should be there,” the expert started by saying.
Because while “a lot of people blame Meghan for a lot, I don’t blame her at all. I think he’s got to be man enough to make his own decisions and some of the decisions he’s made have been absolutely got wrong.”
Because in the eyes of Mr Jobson, “nobody said you shouldn’t go away and have a private life but if he hadn’t done the book and if he hadn’t done the Oprah interview, there’s no doubt in my view that he would have been invited back to do certain things.”
Mr Edwards even chimed in near the end and agreed, stating “And when he had the chance to correct a lot of it, he didn’t do that. He didn’t say ‘look, I probably got that wrong, Dad, and I’m sorry, William.’ mean, what he did, it was pretty treacherous.”
For those unversed with these ‘treacherous’ remarks The Sun’s photographer mentioned. One example was in his interview with the BBC after loosing his appeal for taxpayer funded security.
In that chat he had said, “I have no idea how much longer my father has – he is no longer speaking to me – but it would be nice to reconcile,” among other things.
There were also some accusations in the mix, like when he spoke to 60 Minutes and said, “They will feed or have a conversation with the correspondent, and that correspondent will literally be spoon-fed information and write the story. And at the bottom of it, they will say that they’ve reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment, but the whole story is Buckingham Palace commenting.”
“So when we’re being told for the last six years ‘We can’t put a statement out to protect you,’ but you can do it for other members of the family, there becomes a point when silence is betrayal.”
Or the Apple TV+ series The Me You Can’t See, where he again took aim at the Firm’s silence over Meghan’s issues and said, “I thought my family would help, but every single ask, request, warning, whatever it is, just got met with total silence, total neglect.
However, that is not all, there were more interviews done throughout the years, from a sit down with Oprah in 2021, to Harry: The Interview with ITV in 2023, or the 2024 interview in NYC about his fears regarding history having a ‘repeat’ with Meghan Markle, etc.
