Prince Harry is ready to reconcile with his family.
You know those apparently racist pigs who have deliberately tried to trap him and his family. The father who didn’t hug him. The brother and sister-in-law who basically tied him up and dressed him in Nazi garb. And yes, that same brother who “assaulted” him, tossing him onto a dog bowl.
To those rotten folks, the benevolent Prince Harry will see you now. After publicly airing enough grievances for two decades worth of Festivuses, he’s ready to mend fences.
Life’s too short. He’s big enough to absolve both his family and his homeland, you see.
“I love my country, I always have done, despite what some people in that country have done,” he said in the whinefest BBC interview Friday, where he repeatedly brought up reconciliation.
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The sit down took place in the wake of losing his legal appeal against the UK government after it stripped him of his publicly funded security back in 2020 when he and his wife Meghan Markle left royal life for the abundant opportunity and freedom in America.
The Court of Appeal said he made “powerful” arguments, however, his “sense of grievance” did not “translate into a legal argument.”
But Prince Harry is finding out there are big consequences from such a big decision, made in haste and out of spite.
At the time, he and his wife claimed that they wanted to be independent. They did not want to live in a fishbowl. They wanted privacy, dammit.
Plus it was clear that his craven wife Markle wanted a fabulous life that drew perks and status from her unique mix of being newly minted English royalty and American celebrity.
Of course they used their titles to leverage giant media deals predicated on them becoming spigots to the House of Windsor vault — and letting their secrets flow like a river.
Every interview, every special, every last personal disclosure, a provocation to the notoriously private family.
So much for that independence.
But the hapless “Spare” is the spoiled prince who will never be happy — no matter his situation.
In his interview, he called the denial of his request, a “good old fashioned establishment stitch up.”
Harry, who is never short a scapegoat, laid the blame at the feet of his family.
“There is a lot of control and ability in my father’s hands. Ultimately, this whole thing could be resolved through him,” Harry said.
“Not necessarily by intervening, but by stepping aside, allowing the experts to do what is necessary.”
He then alluded to the tragic death of his mother Princess Diana, suggesting some are setting him up for a similar fate.
“I don’t want history to repeat itself. I think … the majority [of people] also don’t want history to repeat itself. Through the disclosure process, I’ve discovered that some people want history to repeat itself, which is pretty dark.”
A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said that his “all of these issues have been examined repeatedly and meticulously by the courts, with the same conclusion reached on each occasion.”
Harry has a knack for sticking the knife in while his family is vulnerable and dealing with a health crisis. While his grandfather Prince Philip was fading in 2021, he and Markle sat down for their Oprah interview, which laid the foundation for how they’ll make their American fortune: by bitching about his family of ogres.
They continued their reign of terror – producing their Netflix docuseries, “Harry and Meghan” the next year as the Queen died and the Royal Family was in transition. Harry’s cringey whingey memoir “Spare” and the Netflix series were released a few months after her death.
Now, Harry is back, as his father, King Charles III fights cancer. Not that his ailing dad will speak to him, of course. How petty of the King. Really.
“I don’t know how much longer my father has. He won’t speak to me because of this security stuff, but it would be nice to reconcile.”
It’s deeply sad — for all involved.
Perhaps if Harry didn’t litigate all of his family issues in public, like some low rent Jerry Springer guest, then maybe there would room for a reunion. But the more tantrums he publicly throws, the further away he pushes them. It’s clearly not just about the security.
Harry has broken their trust – repeatedly. And how are both the King and Prince William to know he’s not there just to collect more fodder for his next outburst or project.
And yet, he is so blinded by his own victimhood, he cannot see that he is the one to blame for the gulf between them.
