Im going to put it out there - I have the upmost sympathy for Prince Harry.

What makes me laugh is how we all think we have a right to judge his behaviour based on what the gossipy tabloids tell us. I bet if any of us were in his shoes, we'd have a shock as to how nasty the attacks on him have been.

We only know what the press feed us with,

No, because Harry tells us himself, either via 90 minutes of complaints on Oprah, or in the books he is involved with.

We only know what the press feed us with, I stick to my guns regarding having the utmost sympathy for Harry, none of us can possibly possibly know what his life must be like, but what we definitely do know is that he lost his mum at such a young age and his dad married the woman who he was responsible for the break up of their marriage ( or so we're lead to believe ).

Terrible

Harry certainly wasn’t ‘alright till his wife told him he wasn’t’.
He was using drugs and drinking heavily in early adolescence. Evidently, his father gave the two boys much more freedom than many parents would have. Unsupervised get togethers with access to alcohol and drugs.
When the extent of Harry’s substance misuse became known, H was taken to meet people with drug and alcohol problems

On the other hand, if you were being paid a few million for it, perhaps it would be an enticing thought!

Well that would certainly be a start trisher and perhaps an apology to his father and grandmother for the horrible things he has said about them to the entire world. I wonder how many of us would like it if our adult children went on television and said what dreadful parents we were. In my humble opinion, family difficulties and differences are best sorted out privately, often with help and support from a therapist or councellor. It is not conducive to harmony to air your grievances on television to the entire world. I’m surprised trisher that you think it is.

He's a victim of his wife. he was alright till 'she told him how he felt,' he didn't know till then

So it seems that Harry shouldn't say anything about his family or how he felt they treated him because that is vindictive. Funny that we don't apply the same standard to other sorts of mistreatment or family disfunction. Isn't it generally considered best that victims should speak out?
There is no doubt that he feels he suffered because of his family but apparently he should just put up and shut up.

I find it amazing that some posters do not see or acknowledge the truly vindictive behaviour of Harry. He has slated his family to the entire world! How can anyone defend that behaviour? It’s appalling!

maddyone

^….publicly attacked by people who know nothing….^

People do know something. They know exactly what was said during that appalling and defamatory interview which was broadcast to the world. To say people know nothing is wilfully ignoring what is known.

Exactly. I watched it, start to finish.

….publicly attacked by people who know nothing….

People do know something. They know exactly what was said during that appalling and defamatory interview which was broadcast to the world. To say people know nothing is wilfully ignoring what is known.

…none of us knows what goes on behind closed doors.

No, but we know exactly what went on in the interview with Oprah, because it was broadcast to the entire world!

I feel Harry is still hankering after his old life and didn't believe the Queen would refuse him his desire for part-time status. He won't blame the wife who wants no part of it therefore it must be his family's fault and he is taking out his frustration on them.
He should be able to move forward from his mother's death into the future he sought; a new life in a new country with the wife of his choice, two healthy children and a great deal of wealth to enjoy it.

I think royal tittle tattle has a limited shelf life too both in content and public interest, how will he earn these extortionate sums of money when the scandal value dries up. I think it's begun to already so I expect he's already seeking financial pastures new.

Harry is trying to re invent himself for sure ....the americanisms in his vocabulary and his attire are testament to that fact! Fair enough.
Why then does he keep going on about his previous very British life all the time? There has to come a point when he let's go, but of course he won't be able to cash in on it then.

Sorry, 'was dying was etc'

Hear,hear Grannypiper ,nobody I know has any problem with Harry wanting to leave the RH to live a quiet private life as they want to live it it's the bitterness,vindictiveness and pure spite directed at the people who do, and always have loved him that I can't be doing with. To conduct that interview when his grandfather,who he allegedly loved,was completely unfathomable . Did Meghan make him? Why would he allow that? Is he so dim that he doesn't realise the hurt he causes, or so thick skinned that he just doesn't care? How on earth could anyone cause that sort of hurt. Beyond belief

If Harry felt the need to leave public life and live privately in L.A with his family everyone would have wished him well but he has behaved like a vindictive brat. He has lied and caused so much trouble for his Grandmother, even when she lost her Husband Harry had to dig the knife in. He is crying like a baby because his Father won't financially support him, what sane grown man expects their Father to pay? He is a poor excuse for a man and i thank the Lord that William was born first.

Seems to me that he can't say anything without his tonsils being ripped out (metaphorically speaking) . I think he stands and speaks on behalf of a lot of good causes and if he wants to speak out then that's fine - after all, William and Kate do and they have almost been raised to sainthood.

I am not sure what these bad things are.

He made a reasonable choice that he did not want to have the life that he was born into and that everyone expected him to stick with.

He then got slayed by the media, who seem to think he is public property.

He defended himself publicly, in the same way as he was hounded publicly.

I don't agree that he is being hounded by the media Luckygirl and the fact that he isn't seems to fuel his desire to court publicity.

People comment on what he has said in interviews and in his book which is hardly them knowing nothing is it. We know what we've heard and what he's written.

It isn't seeing him as a bad person, it's commenting on the bad things he has done.

Indeed so!

Then you have the same concerns for ‘lots of them governing
this country’ as you for Harry ?

Peasblossom

It’s quite ironical to say no one knows what goes on behind closed doors and then follow that with definitive knowledge of Charles upbringing based on ‘reports’. ?

I hear you and take your point.

But it is general knowledge that many young men have suffered from harsh public schooling and that it has influenced their relationships. Lots of them are governing this country - enough said!!

It could be that his way of dealing with his difficulties is a response to the way he is being publicly attacked by people who know nothing, and the way he is being hounded by the media. He does not have the option to deal with it privately as the attacks are so very public.

I do not know whether he is a good or a bad person - indeed I do not know that of any of the royals - but I do know that he has been subjected to so much unacceptable public pressure. I do not want to be a part of that - it is deeply unpleasant.