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Americans hate that Harry betrayed his family – Spare earned him millions but cost him so much, expert says
By Matt Wilkinson,
4 hours ago
PRINCE Harry is hated by Americans for ‘dissing his family’ and Spare cost him everything, claimed a royal expert.
Esteemed royal biographer Ingrid Seward told The Sun’s Royal Exclusive show how the duke is still “paying” for the consequences of his explosive memoir.
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Speaking to The Sun’s Royal Editor Matt Wilkinson, the royal expert claimed people find his estrangement from both his and Meghan’s family members “alienating”.
“I think what people really dislike is that he dissed his family. The book Spare may have earnt him millions but gosh he’s paid for it.
“He’s paying for it still,” said Ms Seward.
“Especially the Americans I know, they hate the idea that he dissed his family and he doesn’t speak to his brother, has never met Meghan’s father. I mean it is very strange.
“Is she ashamed of her father, why hasn’t Harry met him?
“It’s this distancing from family, people find that very alienating, the opposite to what William and Kate were showing in their most recent video. “
It comes as Prince Harry’s Spare is set to hit the shelves again in the more accessible paperback form next month.
The controversial paperback release, on October 24 in the UK, and October 22 in the US, will also hit at the exact time as His Majesty attends his first Heads of Government meeting in Samoa.
Wife Meg will stay behind in California with kids Archie , five, and Lilibet , three – who Harry said are the two “best gifts” he’s ever received.
Ms Seward also spoke to The Sun about his birthday celebrations.
“I think there’s a tinge of sadness there, when you think 10 years ago Harry was sitting in the grandeur of Clarence House with all his school friends and mates from Sandhurst, and William, Kate, and everybody there,” said the royal biographer.
“And now he’s in Montecito with a whole new crowd of people he’s probably only known for about four years.
The prince quit Britain in 2020 and jetted to California with wife Meg where they now live with their two children, Archie, five, and Lilibet, three.
The couple have recently launched their new project The Parents Network to help support families who have lost their children to online harm and abuse.
I know why Prince Harry is a big-time loser in America – and here’s how he can turn it around
By Matt Wilkinson and Jon Rogers
PRINCE Harry is a big time loser in America but he can still turn it all around, a royal photographer has said.
Legendary royal snapper Arthur Edwards told The Sun’s Royal Exclusive show that Harry was a “somebody” in Britain before leaving it all behind for a new life in California .
The royal is now “just another celebrity in a town full of celebrities,” Edwards told the show, which is hosted by the paper’s royal editor Matt Wilkinson.
Mr Edwards said: “I think he thinks he’s bigger than he actually is.
“I also think Meghan [Markle] doesn’t want to come here anymore, He comes back but she never comes with him.
“The little boy and girl should be playing with their cousins.
“They should be here enjoying the life of the Royal Family.
“Instead of that, they’re stuck in their house in Montecito and they’re just celebrities in a town full of celebrities.
“Here, he was somebody and there, just another celebrity, in my view.
“He’s the loser, big time.”
Also appearing on the show was Dick Griffin, the late Queen’s former police officer, who said: “This morning, I read that before he went [to America] he was the most popular royal and now, he’s gone right down, almost at the bottom of the list.”
Talking about the Duke of Sussex’s court battle to get the Home Office to pay for his security, Mr Edwards added: “He’s got to start seeing things as they really are and he’s no longer welcome here, it seems.”
Addressing the recent debate whether or not Harry wanted to make a return to the UK, the photographer added: “He’s going to have to make a big, big, big act of contrition in my view, to the King, before he gets back because, quite frankly, they’re frightened to have him with them because any conversation they have could be in the next TV programme they make.
“They’re not prepared to do that anymore.
“I always believe in the parable of the Prodigal Son – everything’s possible – but at the moment it doesn’t look likely.”
Harry’s brother Prince William also attended but the siblings were not seen talking to one another.
They were said to have sat apart at the back of the church in Snettisham, Norfolk .
The brothers have barely spoken to each other since Megxit, when Harry and wife Meghan quit royal duties for a new life in the States.
Harry and William, 42, went on a walkabout at Windsor after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 2022 but have not been in the same room since the King’s Coronation more than a year ago.
Speculation has also been building in recent days that Harry has asked former aides to help him plan a comeback from his US exile and spend more time in Britain.
Harry is said to be consulting people “from his old life” after growing frustrated with American PR experts.
Harry reportedly plans to spend more time in the UK in a bid to repair his relationship with King Charles.
The strategy could see a “rehabilitated” Harry stage a partial return to royal life.
But insiders said Harry and Meghan are not seeking a permanent return from California.
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most of us Americans don't care one way or the other because most of us are not into British royal family that much at all but since Harry and Meghan do live here in America and their daughter was born here most of us are interested and most of us like Prince Harry not all but most that are into his daily situation..you know when a British media are lying that,s when they're lips are moving.
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