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Harry wanted to interview Putin, Trump and bergmark zucker

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lemsip Fri 23-Jun-23 08:01:52

Prince Harry 'wanted to interview Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg about their upbringing and childhood traumas' - leaving Spotify execs scratching their heads before £15m podcast deal was scrapped.

nypost.com/2023/06/22/prince-harry-pitched-podcast-on-childhood-trauma-with-trump-putin/

www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1783634/prince-harry-interview-vladimir-putin-donald-trump

lemsip Fri 23-Jun-23 13:56:10

lyleLyle

Just came here to say that the NY Post has to be the slimiest, most disreputable rag a person can “read”. Even accidentally reading an “article” from it makes me feel like I lost brain cells.

well don't you worry yourself, it's in the DM also don't you know!

New york press and daily express to name a few more.

AGAA4 Fri 23-Jun-23 14:13:12

Harry has completely lost his way. He had the ability to do some good with his life which is often the best therapy there is.
My DD watched her strong fit father diminish with cancer over 18 months and die when she was just starting high school. She told me she just wanted to help him but nobody could.
She is now a senior oncology nurse and loves her job. She decided to be a nurse after her dad had died and I believe her ambition helped her as no therapy sessions ever could.

maddyone Fri 23-Jun-23 14:18:34

Harry had no purpose in his life and nothing at all to work towards, unlike your daughter AGAA4. This I suspect, is what happens to many children of the mega rich, take Brooklyn Beckham as an example. Harry doesn’t know what to do with himself, he simply has no purpose and I suspect he knows it.

lyleLyle Fri 23-Jun-23 14:20:47

Oh I’m not worried; wouldn’t know what there would be to worry about anyway.

And the NY Post is still a disreputable sleaze rag. Always was, always will be.

Aspen Fri 23-Jun-23 15:02:30

At one stage in his life William joined the Air Sea Rescue Service making good used of his helicopter training.

If Harry was so against being a Royal he should have done the same, also being a helicopter pilot. A move up to Anglesey should has suited him well?

Foxygloves Fri 23-Jun-23 15:17:06

Wondering by what convoluted stretch of the imagination, autocorrect turned Mark Zuckerberg into bergmark zucker confusedconfused
Still it made me look.

Foxygloves Fri 23-Jun-23 15:22:26

lemsip

I'm putting it up for discussion which is what this site is for! some people don't seem to know that.

Michael Caine is famous for the catch-phrase "Not a lot of people know that", though he never actually said it. The phrase was probably first said by Peter Sellers when he appeared Parkinson (1971) on 28 October 1972 and said: "Not many people know that.

Sussexborn Fri 23-Jun-23 15:27:12

Harry and William both had bereavement therapy soon after Diana’s death. Harry’s was extended for a much longer period. Unfortunately if you don’t work with the therapist no amount of examining your psyche is going to help. The Californian therapist recommended by Meghan Markle and was decidedly weird.

Running a gynae cancer support group for five years, with many terminal members, I saw first hand no end of children who watched their mothers or grandmothers die over long periods of time, but they didn’t lose themselves in a pool of misery and self pity. Neither did the mothers who watched their daughters die. They supported and helped each other.

The reality is that not being fabulously wealthy keeps us grounded by the need to keep a roof over our heads and our families fed and clothed. Constantly trying to evaluate what is best for them and not ourselves.

Germanshepherdsmum Fri 23-Jun-23 15:57:15

Don’t you have to want to get better for therapy to work? I think H far prefers having something to whine about.

Smileless2012 Fri 23-Jun-23 17:48:33

It certainly looks that way GSM if he wasn't whining, what would he have to talk abouthmm.

Sparklefizz Fri 23-Jun-23 17:52:32

Smileless2012

It certainly looks that way GSM if he wasn't whining, what would he have to talk abouthmm.

He must be such a misery to live with - whining self-pitying, angry. Not a husband I would want.

Louella12 Fri 23-Jun-23 18:05:43

When I initially read this article I was mildly amused. However, after thinking it dawned on me it is rather an interesting idea. Putin would have been a disaster but there's plenty more powerful people to interview.

Only issue with it is the idea that Harry thinks he's capable of such interviews. Which he's not.

But I do think the idea is a good one

Allsorts Fri 23-Jun-23 18:13:55

Unbelievable, everyone having a childhood trauma for a start. Can you imagine anyone of those would admit the slightest weakness. Contrary to H and M views very few bad mouth their families, I know of family rifts of course, but not doing a hatchet job on them to all and sundry after negotiating the best price.

Lathyrus Fri 23-Jun-23 18:33:27

Can’t help imagining the interview.

Now Vladimir, how far do you think your traumatic childhood contributed into making you the self-seeking tyrant that you are?
Donald you come in here. Do you think your childhood was responsible for your narcissistic life choices?
😬

welbeck Fri 23-Jun-23 19:17:39

don't forget the pope.
he wanted to interview him too, as part of a series on religion, no less !

welbeck Fri 23-Jun-23 19:20:22

Foxygloves

Wondering by what convoluted stretch of the imagination, autocorrect turned Mark Zuckerberg into bergmark zucker confusedconfused
Still it made me look.

a foreign friend of mine often used to ask me what borison is up to now.
i think she thought that was his name,
former PM/MP.

Callistemon21 Fri 23-Jun-23 20:16:44

winterwhite

I don't think he needs more therapy, less if anything. And I don't agree that his childhood was 'traumatic' - devalues the word

Nor do I think he really wanted to talk to Putin etc at all, just another way of talking about himself.

I did say perceived traumatic upbringing because so many abused, neglected, starved children would have swapped with him.

maddyone Fri 23-Jun-23 20:31:38

When you think of the abuse some children suffer, some even end up killed, it makes me want to spit! (Not literally) He is a delusional and narcissistic, spoilt man child.

Deedaa Fri 23-Jun-23 20:32:21

In the unlikely event of any of these people talking to him he would have done his best to turn the focus onto himself. "Your story is awful Vladimir, but I had it much worse!"

merlotgran Fri 23-Jun-23 20:57:23

Deedaa

In the unlikely event of any of these people talking to him he would have done his best to turn the focus onto himself. "Your story is awful Vladimir, but I had it much worse!"

He could have had so a good old whinge to the Pope about how the Archbishop of Canterbury was such a spoilsport he wouldn’t go along with their little ruse about them being secretly married two days before the actual wedding.

grandMattie Fri 23-Jun-23 21:45:51

Ha ha ha! Pulling his royal strings to make money?

RosesandLilac Sat 24-Jun-23 05:49:11

His reputation is built on the incessant whinging, woe-is-me and selling his family for money; how depressing that if he has any other values then they’re hidden by this.
I would imagine few people would trust him or Meghan with anything other than the superficial for fear of it being spun into another money-grabbing opportunity.
It’s interesting that all the famous ‘friends’ attending the wedding haven’t said one word, as far as we know, supporting this pair of avaricious individuals..

Joseann Sat 24-Jun-23 07:03:31

Didn't Harry interview Obama once? From what I remember it was in the days before Meghan, and was quite lighthearted. The Obamas wouldn't want to associate with M & H now after the nasty things Harry said about his own family. Likewise I think pompous Trump is loyal (??) to his own family, and he liked the Queen, so why would he agree to be interviewed by Harry who would only spend the time dissing Charles, Camilla, William and Catherine and making his own plight the subject of the interview?

eddiecat78 Sat 24-Jun-23 07:05:39

This story originated from "an unidentified source". I'm amazed so many of you believe it.

M0nica Sat 24-Jun-23 07:17:50

It is not whether we believe the story, eddiecat78 few of us do, but just amazement at the hubris of someone with limited skills and no experience of interviewing anyone, thinking he is important enough and clever enough for any of these world leaders to be prepared to waste even a minutes thought to giving an interview to a some European princeling, has-been celebrity now on a downward trajectory with little behind him but meritorious army service as a junior officer..