At least we have a break over the holidays, right?
Fresh from this six-hour Netflix whinge-a-thon – which started streaming just three weeks ago – Prince Harry is back with another round of interviews, with trailers for both dropping Monday morning.
Do you want to guess the topic?
You know, right before Harry and Meghan sat down with Oprah Winfrey — two years ago this March — the couple declared that this interview would be their “final word.” You wouldn’t have anything else to say, and would everyone please just respect their privacy?
Then they wonder why the general public has trouble believing everything they say.
Her buddies in the media – that’s another story though, as we see with H&M friend Tom Bradby and Anderson Cooper.
British ITV and CBS News’ 60 Minutes breathlessly advertise new, allegedly bombastic interviews.
Finally – this time for real, I promise and a small oath – will Harry tell “his” truth? Will he reveal all the gruesome, gory details — you know, stuff we hadn’t heard in her six episodes on Netflix, the Oprah interview, Meghan’s Finding Freedom podcast, Meghan’s cover stories on The Cut and Variety, or any of that ? their numerous leaks to the media?
If past is prologue, that’s highly unlikely.
Now Harry is off to flog his forthcoming memoir, and like everything else the Sussexes have tried to sell us, it looks like little substance, heavy on victimhood, lacking personal responsibility and, worse than anything else – hackneyed, hackneyed and unoriginal.
Finally – this time for real, I promise and a small oath – will Harry tell “his” truth? If past is prologue, that’s highly unlikely.
Britain’s ITV (above) and CBS News’ 60 Minutes breathlessly advertise new, allegedly bombastic, interviews.
In other words: In the spirit of Brand Sussex, a disappointment overall.
When your publisher drops the price of your book by 30 percent as a presale before it hits the shelves, it seems like your book is in trouble. If no major printing house releases an excerpt before publication – well, that’s an indication that nothing’s really in it.
Harry should have been on the cover of People this week, a four page sample of it.
Instead: nothing.
Harry seems unfamiliar with the concept of diminishing returns. He also seems unfamiliar with the stupidity of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
“I would like to get my father back. I would like my brother back.’
This is the headline of Harry’s interview with Tom Bradby, a snippet that also contains more malice towards – who else? – his father and his brother.
“They feel like it’s better to keep us as villains in some way,” he said. “They have shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile.”
Harry and Meghan need absolutely no help looking like the villains here. You’re doing great all by yourself. It might actually be her only truly measurable success.
Once upon a time these two had so much goodwill. Harry was once the favored prince, considered more charismatic, down-to-earth, and outspoken. Now we see what a great job the Palace has done in managing its image.
And we see how much gratitude Harry has for all that hard work: None.
As the Netflix reality show made clear, these two are spoiled megalomaniacs who, despite defiance and jealousy, marinate and try to cling to the sleazy poles of fame (Beyoncé texted me!), ridiculous accolades (a humanitarian honor bestowed by a celebrity who accidentally shot his colleague) to death) and hypocritical virtue signs (“Be nice!”) while selling Harry’s entire family.
Hypocrisy at its most stunning.
When your publisher drops the price of your book by 30 percent as a presale before it hits the shelves, it seems like your book is in trouble.
Just before Harry and Meghan sat down with Oprah Winfrey – two years ago this March – the couple declared that this interview would be their “final word”.
The moment Meghan mocked the late Queen with her theatrical curtsy – well, it’s hard to see how to come back from that. A beloved queen who says she treated her with nothing but warmth and motherly guidance, realizing the obvious: Meghan’s success in the family would only add to Harry’s happiness.
Oh, and Harry was implying that his brother wasn’t allowed to marry for love. That was a particularly ugly statement.
All of this begs the obvious question: why on earth would King Charles or Prince William – or any member of the royal family – trust that a private conversation with either of them would remain private? It’s clear that Harry and Meghan have no other merchandise than royal secrets and are not ashamed to sell them to the highest bidder.
So what makes more sense, in the interests of protecting sentiment and reputation, than for royals to stay away from the very two people bent on destroying family and institution?
It’s clear what’s going on here. Harry and Meghan won’t be satisfied until they burn down the monarchy and drag every family member they envy to their subterranean realm.
Really – despite all his mental health efforts, doesn’t Harry seem to be full of anger? He tries to sell his newfound life in California as some kind of self-actualized nirvana, a “live, laugh, love” existence unavailable to him as a working king, but he’s never seemed angrier, unhappier, or more distracted.
He insists on the very family he lost through his own words and actions. He and Meghan take no responsibility whatsoever for their role in these fractures. They run petty scores and post a photo or gossip every time Kate and William have a big event or win. They tell blatant lies, big and small. Remember Meghan lamented her decision not to wear bright colors to dull her light against the future queen and shed a tear, didn’t you?
Oh, and Harry was implying that his brother wasn’t allowed to marry for love. That was a particularly ugly statement.
Will he reveal all the gruesome, gory details — you know, stuff we hadn’t heard in her six episodes on Netflix, the Oprah interview, Meghan’s Finding Freedom podcast, Meghan’s cover stories on The Cut and Variety, or any of that ? their numerous leaks to the media?
It’s intellectual dishonesty and emotional immaturity at its most intolerable, and a weary audience has heard enough of it.
But here’s Anderson Cooper, from another famous wealthy family, entertaining Prince Harry in a trailer for Sunday’s ’60 Minutes’ interview. Let’s watch these two stroll through a large, sun-drenched garden while Harry tells his ordeal like the boring, droning clockwork doll he’s become.
The palace leaked against him and Meghan, he says to Cooper. They were used as red meat for the tabloids, and when they asked for help, they were stone coldly turned down.
If it’s really true, as Harry says, that his father and brother “leaked and planted” stories against Harry and Meghan – why would he ever trust them? Why would he want to make up?
“If for the past six years we’ve been told, ‘We can’t make a statement to protect you,’ but you’re doing it for other family members, it gets to a point where silence is treason,” says Harry.
Does anyone else remember the whispers from Meghan bullying palace staff, from an internal HR investigation, from Prince William and the late Queen reprimanding them for such behavior? If the palace really wanted to hurt Harry and Meghan, you get the feeling they might.
But not her. Your silence actually seems to be a kindness here. A kindness Harry will no doubt repay with future betrayals.