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MEGHAN Markle and Prince Harry have been urged to give the up the royal titles they claim to hate by furious Palace aides.
Speaking on the podcast Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard last week, Harry said he’d wanted to quit the Royal Family since he was in his 20s, adding “look what it did to my mum”.
But his comments have led to even more “anger and bewilderment” within the Royal Family – not least because Harry and Meghan are still using their royal titles to cash in and raise their profile.
Meghan, for example, used her title Duchess of Sussex on the cover of her new children’s book despite previously saying she wasn’t interested in having a royal title and that she was simply “Meghan”.
And Harry’s other comments in the interview has sparked anger too – not least the way he criticised Charles’ parenting and by implication the parenting of the Queen and his late grandfather Prince Philip.
One aide reportedly told the Mail on Sunday: “People are appalled that he could do this to the Queen when the Duke of Edinburgh is barely in his grave. To drag his grandfather into this is so shocking and disrespectful.
“The Duke of Sussex has now spent a significant amount of time emphasising that he’s no different to anyone else and attacking the institution which he says has caused him so much pain. There is a growing feeling that if you dislike the institution that much, you shouldn’t have the titles.”
Another source said: “They should put the titles into abeyance, so they still exist, but are not used, like they agreed to do with their HRHs. They should just become Harry and Meghan. And if they refuse to do that, they have to explain why not.”
Read our live blog below for the very latest updates on Meghan Markle and Prince Harry…
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‘LOST THE PLOT’
Prince Harry has been told to “get the hell out” by furious Americans after calling the First Amendment “bonkers”.
The Duke of Sussex was hit with backlash after complaining about the US constitution on a podcast, while admitting he doesn’t fully understand it.
Talking about life in LA, his family and future plans on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert, Harry said: “I’ve got so much I want to say about the First Amendment as I sort of understand it, but it is bonkers.
“I don’t want to start going down the First Amendment route because that’s a huge subject and one which I don’t understand because I’ve only been here a short time.
“But, you can find a loophole in anything. You can capitalise or exploit what’s not said rather than uphold what is said.”
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‘DEAR BOY’
Prince Harry told how he and his “Pa” could “talk for hours” in a chat three years before he criticised his dad’s parenting.
He interviewed Prince Charles in 2017 for his stint as guest editor of Radio4’s Today show.
They spoke about their shared passion for battling climate change, with Harry referencing how they would regularly discuss the issue.
After introducing him as “father, pa”, Harry said: “We could talk about this for hours and hours, which we always do, but not with a microphone in front of us.
“I totally see it and I totally understand it because of all these years and conversations we’ve been having. I do end up picking your brains more now than I ever have done.”
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MERCY MUROKI – COMMENT
I hate to say it, but Prince Harry is starting to sound like a whiny, selfpitying, grievance addict.
It is a shame it has come to this as I always liked Meghan and Harry.
As a Royal Family fan and a dark-skinned African-British woman, I thought it was wonderful we were seeing their first mixed ethnicity couple.
And with Prince George and my own daughter being about the same age, I was more than happy for Duchess Meg to pave the way for black princesses of the future.
But almost as soon as this positivity set in, they began another, to quote Harry, “journey” — this time on an endless conveyor belt of pity.
More on the story here.
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‘I JUST FROZE’
Lady Gaga broke down in tears as she discussed her mental health battle in the new trailer for Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry’s show The Me You Can’t See.
The Apple TV+ docuseries shares a glimpse into the diverse stories of mental health and emotional well-being, which lands on the streaming service this Friday, May 21.
Grammy-winning artist Gaga joins Glenn Close and chef Rashad Armstead who are opening up about their mental health in the Oprah and Prince Harry produced series.
In the two minute trailer, viewers are given a glimpse of the singer, 35, discussing her struggles thus far as she says to the camera, “I don’t tell this story from my own self-service.
“I’ve been through it and people need help.” As the teaser continues on, fans next see Gaga in tears as she recalls, “I just froze and I…”
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HARRY’S PAIN
Prince Harry’s first trailer for his mental health series with Oprah Winfrey features a clip of him with Prince Charles at his mum’s funeral.
The Duke of Sussex, 36, teamed up with the US chat show powerhouse for documentary The Me You Can’t See.
Harry can be seen chatting to Oprah in an official trailer released today.
He says: “To make that decision to receive help is not a sign of weakness. In today’s world more than ever, it is a sign of strength.”
The trailer includes poignant archive footage of Harry stood next to Prince Charles at Princess Diana’s funeral.
A voiceover says: “Treating people with dignity is the first act.”
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HARRY & MEG ‘HYPOCRITICAL’ WITH ‘CEASELESS NEED FOR EXPOSURE’
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s “ceaseless need for exposure” is hypocritical when they beg for privacy, a royal expert has said.
Meghan and Harry have faced huge media attention from around the world after stepping down as senior royals and moving to LA.
However, the couple have signed deals with Netflix and Spotify – and continue to do high-profile interviews despite their desire for a life out of the spotlight.
Royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams told the Sun Online: “His opening up in the past as a form of therapy has been beneficial to others. But why does he do it so publicly now? Why bare your soul in this way and to what end?
“The need for this ceaseless exposure to the media is obviously hypocritical for a couple who are supposedly obsessed with privacy.”
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PRINCE OF WAILS
Prince Harry has become a ‘moaning victim’ who is editing out all the good the Royal family have done for him, according to his biographer.
Angela Levin, who wrote Harry: Conversations with the Prince, believes that his complaints about Charles being a bad parent and their fallout being connected to the queen are largely groundless.
Here, she analyses Harry’s recent gripes and gives them a moan rating.
Angela tells us: “When I spent 15 months with Harry, he was charming and full of mischief. He has changed to become this moaning victim.”
She also fears that his latest comments, made on the Armchair Podcast, were “a publicity stunt” to attract more attention.
More on the story here.
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MERCY MUROKI – COMMENT
I hate to say it, but Prince Harry is starting to sound like a whiny, selfpitying, grievance addict.
It is a shame it has come to this as I always liked Meghan and Harry.
As a Royal Family fan and a dark-skinned African-British woman, I thought it was wonderful we were seeing their first mixed ethnicity couple.
And with Prince George and my own daughter being about the same age, I was more than happy for Duchess Meg to pave the way for black princesses of the future.
But almost as soon as this positivity set in, they began another, to quote Harry, “journey” — this time on an endless conveyor belt of pity.
More on the story here.
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‘I JUST FROZE’
Lady Gaga broke down in tears as she discussed her mental health battle in the new trailer for Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry’s show The Me You Can’t See.
The Apple TV+ docuseries shares a glimpse into the diverse stories of mental health and emotional well-being, which lands on the streaming service this Friday, May 21.
Grammy-winning artist Gaga joins Glenn Close and chef Rashad Armstead who are opening up about their mental health in the Oprah and Prince Harry produced series.
In the two minute trailer, viewers are given a glimpse of the singer, 35, discussing her struggles thus far as she says to the camera, “I don’t tell this story from my own self-service.
“I’ve been through it and people need help.” As the teaser continues on, fans next see Gaga in tears as she recalls, “I just froze and I…”
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HARRY’S PAIN
Prince Harry’s first trailer for his mental health series with Oprah Winfrey features a clip of him with Prince Charles at his mum’s funeral.
The Duke of Sussex, 36, teamed up with the US chat show powerhouse for documentary The Me You Can’t See.
Harry can be seen chatting to Oprah in an official trailer released today.
He says: “To make that decision to receive help is not a sign of weakness. In today’s world more than ever, it is a sign of strength.”
The trailer includes poignant archive footage of Harry stood next to Prince Charles at Princess Diana’s funeral.
A voiceover says: “Treating people with dignity is the first act.”
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HARRY & MEG ‘HYPOCRITICAL’ WITH ‘CEASELESS NEED FOR EXPOSURE’
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s “ceaseless need for exposure” is hypocritical when they beg for privacy, a royal expert has said.
Meghan and Harry have faced huge media attention from around the world after stepping down as senior royals and moving to LA.
However, the couple have signed deals with Netflix and Spotify – and continue to do high-profile interviews despite their desire for a life out of the spotlight.
Royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams told the Sun Online: “His opening up in the past as a form of therapy has been beneficial to others. But why does he do it so publicly now? Why bare your soul in this way and to what end?
“The need for this ceaseless exposure to the media is obviously hypocritical for a couple who are supposedly obsessed with privacy.”
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MEG ME SMILE
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry can be seen beaming together in a new video clip for Harry’s mental health series with Oprah Winfrey.
The Duke of Sussex, 36, teamed up with the US chat show powerhouse for the upcoming documentary The Me You Can’t See.
The first trailer for the series, which begins later this week, was released today – featuring new footage of Meghan and Harry together.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex can be seen smiling from ear to ear, with Meghan peering over her husband’s shoulder as he sits at a computer.
Harry appears to call her over from the other side of the room – possibly from a study in their sunny California home – before showing her something on the screen.
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HARRY ‘ALWAYS PUSHED BOUNDARIES’
Even the late Diana’s patience was tested by the young Prince Harry.
Inspector Ken Wharfe, who looked after the young princes and Diana, says the angriest he ever saw her was when she was telling off Harry for hitting William with a snooker cue while they stayed on Richard Branson’s Caribbean island, Necker.
He said: “Harry was always pushing the boundaries. That was never the case with William.”
Harry was not academic and struggled with his schooling.
The fallout of Charles and Diana’s marriage ending had a big impact on their sons. But Diana’s death in August 1997, when Harry was just 12, changed him for life.
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ROYAL U-TURN
Phillip Schofield has admitted he wanted Prince Harry to “shut up” before he listened to him on the Dax Shepard podcast.
The 59-year-old was expecting to hate listening to what the Royal had to say, but actually came out of it very impressed with him and his attitude to mental health.
However, the This Morning host thought the podcast itself, which has sparked a lot of debate, was “dreadful” as he made his feelings clear during a debate on today’s show.
Defending Prince Harry, he said: “I thought the podcast was shockingly done, they are dreadful interviewers. Just shut up and let him speak. So I didn’t think that was any good anyway.
“What was interesting was that when you listen to the full podcast you see the headlines. When he was in the Truman Show – big headline, no he was fed that line and then he repeated it. So there was a lot that was very unfair.”
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PRINCE HARRY ‘TOO SELF-OBSESSED’ – DOCTOR
Prince Harry has become too “self-obsessed” and has likely had “too much therapy”, an NHS psychiatrist has said.
The Duke of Sussex opened up about his upbringing last week, claiming he moved his son to the States to “break the cycle” of “genetic pain” from his own childhood.
Dr Max Pemberton suggests Harry is over-analysing his troubles – and may have had too much therapy.
“He is starting to embody the characteristics of those who’ve had too much therapy,” the doctor writes in the Daily Mail.
“Self-centred, self-obsessed, aggrieved and resentful. While a bit of self-obsession is acceptable inside a therapist’s office, it is unbecoming in public,” he adds, “especially from someone who has — and continues to have — a life of almost unparalleled luxury and privilege.”
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HARRY ‘HARBOURS DEEP RESENTMENT FOR DAD’ – SARAH VINE
Prince Harry has “for a long time hated being a Royal,” notes Sarah Vine in the Mail on Sunday.
She writes: “Not only that, it seems he has always harboured deep resentment for his father and that whole ‘Firm’ side of the family for the unfair way he felt his mother was treated.
“However much Meghan may have seen Harry as a way in [to the Royal family], he saw her as a way out, an opportunity to escape from a role that he clearly considered toxic.”
The duke’s claim that he stepped away from his Royal duties and moved to the US to protect his family has also been questioned by Vine.
She says: “He did it to pursue his dream. His own dream of freedom – which is fast becoming the Royal Family’s nightmare.”
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‘IT’S NOT MEGHAN’S FAULT’
Although royal fans have been blaming Meghan Markle for taking Prince Harry from his family in the UK, that’s not the case, according to Sarah Vine in the Mail on Sunday.
She says that “no doubt” however that “Pre-Meghan Harry was very different to the post-Meghan model.
“And there’s also no doubt that since they moved to America, she has wasted no time cashing in on her royal connections.
“But I don’t think she’s the only one to blame. I believe Harry is just as complicit.
“Far from being brainwashed by Meghan, I think he’s just starting to be himself.”
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‘DEAR BOY, I’M PROUD OF YOU’ – PRINCE CHARLES TO HARRY
Prince Harry told how he and his “Pa” could “talk for hours”, during a chat three years before he criticised his dad’s parenting.
While interviewing Prince Charles in 2017 for a stint as guest editor of Radio4’s Today show, they spoke about their shared passion for battling climate change, with Harry referencing how they would regularly discuss the issue.
After introducing him as “father, pa”, Harry said: “We could talk about this for hours and hours, which we always do, but not with a microphone in front of us.
“I totally see it and I totally understand it because of all these years and conversations we’ve been having. I do end up picking your brains more now than I ever have done.”
Charles happily called him “dear boy” before adding: “Well darling boy it makes me very proud to think you understand.”
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WHAT DID PRINCE HARRY SAY ABOUT ‘GENETIC PAIN?’
Speaking on the Armchair Expert Podcast last week, Prince Harry, 36, told host Dax Shephard his dad, 72, “suffered” due to his upbringing by the Queen and Philip, then “treated me the way he was treated”.
He said: “I verbalise it, which is, ‘Isn’t life about breaking the cycle’?
“There’s no blame, I don’t think we should be pointing the finger or blaming anybody.
“But certainly when it comes to parenting, if I have experienced some form of pain or suffering because of the pain or suffering perhaps my father or my parents suffered, I’m gonna make sure that I break that cycle so that I don’t pass it on, basically.
“There is a lot of genetic pain and suffering that gets passed on anyway. As parents we should be doing the most that we can to say, ‘You know what, that happened to me, I’m gonna make sure that’s not going to happen to you’.”
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‘DAMAGE DONE’ TO PRINCE CHARLES’S RELATIONSHIP WITH HARRY
Prince Harry will never have a loving, caring and fun relationship with Prince Charles again, a former royal butler has claimed.
The Duke of Sussex dealt further blows to his dad last week – blasting Charles’ parenting skills and claiming he moved to the States to “break the cycle” of “genetic pain” from his own childhood.
Former royal butler Grant Harrold, said: “The damage is done. And that makes me sad because the relationship that I knew which was a loving, caring, fun relationship can never be like that again,” he told Channel 5’s Charles & Harry: Father and Son Divided.
Royal author Tom Quinn added: “There is no doubt the gulf between Harry and Charles had widened considerably.
“I mean I think if they are not careful it will be very difficult to bridge that divide in future. I can’t see how they can do it.”
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‘SPINELESS’ HARRY – PIERS MORGAN SLAMS ROYAL
Piers Morgan has slammed Prince Harry as a “spineless self-pitying twerp” after he said the First Amendment was “bonkers.”
The Duke of Sussex was hit with backlash after complaining about the US constitution on a podcast, while admitting he doesn’t fully understand it.
The ex-GMB presenter, 56, has claimed that Harry is on “very dangerous territory” by bashing the US Constitution while living in America.
Blasting Harry, 36, Piers said: “Like so much of the absurd Meghan-inspired psychobabble that spews out of his mouth, none of this makes any sense, and he clearly doesn’t understand what he’s saying either.
“Though we can safely assume that he just hates anything which affords any protection to journalists to say things he doesn’t like, because that has been a familiar theme from the indignant media-loathing Prince for the last few years.”
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PRINCE HARRY ‘WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER’
Prince Harry’s first trailer for his mental health series with Oprah Winfrey includes poignant archive footage of Harry standing next to Prince Charles at Princess Diana’s funeral.
A voiceover says: “Treating people with dignity is the first act.”
Harry explains: “We are born into different lives, brought up in different environments, and as a result are exposed to different experiences.
“But our shared experience is that we are all human. The majority of us carry some form of unresolved trauma, loss or grief, which feels – and is – very personal.
“Yet the last year has shown us that we are all in this together, and my hope is that this series will show there is power in vulnerability, connection in empathy, and strength in honesty.”
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WHAT IS HARRY’S MENTAL HEALTH SERIES ABOUT?
The Me You Can’t See is a multi-part documentary series from co-creators and executive producers Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry, explains Apple TV+.
It features “illuminating stories that help lift the veil on the current state of mental health and emotional well-being.
“Oprah and Harry guide honest discussions about mental health and emotional well-being while opening up about their mental health journeys and struggles.”
It premieres on May 21 on Apple TV+.
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