Harry Fatigue…

I’ve written a lot of words and had a lot of thoughts about Prince Harry in the past six years but with the never ending chaos surrounding his trip to the UK, it’s time to fully call a spade a spade. Harry has proven himself time and again to be a manipulative, petty, entitled, untrustworthy, disingenuous, volatile, spoilt asshole with the emotional intelligence of a toddler. He has absolutely zero empathy or respect for anyone who isn’t himself. He is incapable of seeing anyone else’s point of view and doesn’t give even the tiniest fuck about the chaos and hurt that he causes others.

His mother has been gone for almost thirty years, yet Harry still expects the world to see him as that poor little boy walking behind her coffin. He expects the sympathy and understanding and compassion that people felt for him to unconditional and limitless. We’re supposed to make endless allowances and think “poor Harry” for the rest of his life.

His life is now one constant incongruous battle between proving he hated royal life and is better off without “the institution” but at the same time constantly and desperately trying to recreate that royal life that he has supposedly left behind.

He preaches and pontificates endlessly about service and duty and helping others. Yet is perfectly happy to let the incredible work done by the few charities still willing to work with him be completely overshadowed (and put at risk) by his never ending personal drama.

He trashes and sues and denigrates the British press, yet somehow always finds a new media lapdog to do his bidding.

Throwing a tantrum to get what you want is slightly amusing in a three year old, dramatically less so in a forty one year old. Yet here we are - Harry is still trying the same tactic that one suspects he has been using his entire life. He tried it when he and Meghan left royal life (remember the statement and ridiculous website stating what they would be doing/receiving?) and he’s been trying it ever since with his security and to get what he wants from his family. The problem is that the law of ever diminishing returns has very much come in to play. The tantrums don’t work anymore. The press briefings and playing out his private battles in public to get sympathy and what he wants are no longer working. He has come to the UK this time without his family as he stated would definitely happen, without the security that he wants and without a Buckingham Palace bed to sleep in.

There comes a point in everyone’s life when you release that you are capable of fucking up and making mistakes, that you are not the centre of the universe and that everything that goes wrong in your life is not everyone else’s fault. Apparently Harry skipped over that chapter of emotional development. He is in a perpetual cycle of victimhood and self pity, completely incapable of self reflection.

Harry is stuck. He is stuck in 1997. He is stuck in 2020. The problem is that the world, and the royal family have moved on. Harry is still complaining and whinging about security, telling us how us important he is and demanding to be given every privilege that his older brother has - six years after he left royal life. Harry is aimless, focus-less and bitter. He is living in a permanent delusion that the world owes him and loves him, because in his mind he’s still “Hero Harry the larrikin prince”. The one who everyone loved and whose every indiscretion was laughed off and forgiven. That ship has sailed, the mask has slipped and the shine has most definitely worn off the cheeky Harry act. He has exhausted every ounce of goodwill that most people had left for him.

It’s also time to stop blaming Meghan for everything. She’s certainly not blameless but it’s time to stop treating Harry like an innocent victim and see him for who he truly is.

I’m exhausted by him - I can’t even imagine how William and those forced to deal with him feel.