Prince Harry has been relatively quiet in recent weeks as wife Meghan Markle continues to bask in the limelight launching her As Ever business – but that could all be about to change.
Prince Harry on a surprise trip to China(Image: Trip.com Group Envision 2025/Travalyst)
Prince Harry could potentially ignite a fresh Royal controversy with his prospective career shift, warns an expert. While Meghan has been enjoying the spotlight with the launch of her As Ever venture, Harry seems to have taken a more subdued role as the couple appear to be exploring separate career trajectories.
However, rumours suggest that this could soon change as Harry seeks a ‘new purpose’. Reports indicate that Harry might be launching his own commercial enterprise in the coming months, alongside focusing on his Invictus Games Foundation.
Details about the potential venture remain under wraps, and figuring it out will be one of the first tasks for the Sussexes’ newly assembled advisory team. But Jennie Bond, former BBC Royal correspondent, has warned that if Harry chooses to pursue a profit-making path, it could be fraught with challenges.
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Speaking to the Mirror, she said: “Personally, I think this commercial route opens him up to all sorts of accusations of trading on his royal status which would make him an even angrier young man than at present. I think Harry is still trying to figure out where he goes from here. By normal standards, he’s a very rich man, but life in Montecito doesn’t come cheap, especially with all the security costs he deems necessary.
“So is he content for his wife to be the breadwinner while he concentrates on the children and charity work? There’s nothing wrong with that but he might feel he needs to pursue commercial ventures too.”, reports the Mirror.
Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex(Image: Getty Images for W+P)
Prince Harry has been in the spotlight recently, focusing on his philanthropic efforts. This month, he was seen championing the Diana Award at an event in Las Vegas.
Just this week, he made a surprise appearance at a travel conference in Shanghai, where he delivered a speech on sustainable travel through his organisation Travalyst.
Jennie commented further: “There’s nothing wrong with being a stay-at-home dad and using his influence to help charities around the world. He’s brilliant at interacting with people and at just being Harry. He should perhaps stick to what he’s born to, trained for and truly good at.”
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Harry’s journey to China was his inaugural visit and coincided with King Charles’s arrival in Canada for a significant tour.
However, Jennie noted: “Fortunately it seems not to have overshadowed Charles and Camilla’s trip to Canada. In fact, it seems to have made very little news at all. If the idea was to garner as much publicity for the cause as possible, it would seem to have fallen rather short.
“There was no advance information about it and not much of a splash when he was there. But he is clearly employed by Travalyst to make keynote speeches like this, and I’m sure he made a good job of it. The timing of the conference would have been coincidental to the King’s trip to Canada, certainly not deliberate.
“However, the irony of flying across the world to promote sustainable, environmentally friendly travel is hard to ignore. Surely a video speech would have been more ethical?”.
“The same criticism could be lobbed at William flying around the world to host the Earthshot Awards but sometimes it just raises the profile in a way nothing else could. I’m not sure that Harry’s presence did the same.”
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