{"id":17575,"date":"2025-04-13T21:53:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T21:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/17575\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T21:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T21:53:16","slug":"prince-harry-seems-unable-to-comprehend-that-security-row-is-of-his-own-making-not-his-father-king-charles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/17575\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry seems unable to comprehend that security row is of his OWN making &#8211; not his father King Charles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHEN Harry described his killing of 25 Taliban in Afghanistan as \u201cchess pieces taken off the board\u201d he was writing his memoir but also destroying his peace of mind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/royals\/34425921\/prince-harry-conspiracy-security-fears-his-fault-taliban\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The casual inference <\/a>of the \u201cbad guys eliminated before they kill good guys\u201d was a red flag to assassins.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Prince Harry departing the High Court in London.\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"Reuters\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/britains-prince-harry-departs-attending-986274441.jpg\" data-caption=\"Prince Harry seems unable or unwilling to comprehend that security row is of his OWN making\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/britains-prince-harry-departs-attending-986274441.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>4<\/p>\n<p>Prince Harry seems unable or unwilling to comprehend that security row is of his OWN makingCredit: Reuters<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Prince Charles and Prince Harry at a film premiere.\" height=\"960\" width=\"795\" data-credit=\"Getty\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/prince-charles-prince-wales-prince-780062171.jpg\" data-caption=\"It is not the fault of King Charles, his father, who he blames for not stepping in and using his influence\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/prince-charles-prince-wales-prince-780062171.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>4<\/p>\n<p>It is not the fault of King Charles, his father, who he blames for not stepping in and using his influenceCredit: Getty<\/p>\n<p>Without apparently fully considering the consequences, Harry had potentially written his own death warrant.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/army\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Army<\/a> was furious and said he had let the side down with his careless remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Former top brass Colonel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/20954956\/harry-betrayed-army-killed-25-afghanistan\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Collins made that abundantly clear <\/a>when he said: \u201cWe don\u2019t do notches on the rifle butt, we never did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Much of Harry\u2019s fight about his personal security stems from this error of judgment.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE ON PRINCE HARRY<\/p>\n<p>By revealing what he did he put not only himself, but others, in danger.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/prince-harry\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry <\/a>now wants the already overburdened British taxpayer to pick up the tab for his mistake by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/royals\/34426718\/prince-harry-security-scrapped-prevent-him-leaving-royal-family\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">financing security for him<\/a> and his family when they visit the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Yet he seems unable, or unwilling, to comprehend that much of the problem is of his own making.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the fault of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/king-charles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">King Charles<\/a>, his father, who he blames for not stepping in and using his influence.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, Harry fails to understand that the King cannot get involved in what is a governmental matter.<\/p>\n<p>It seems he cannot stand the thought that he could possibly make a mistake and blames everybody else.<\/p>\n<p>Vacuous Meghan needs to stop &#8211; she\u2019s trying to monetise her own life but NO ONE cares<\/p>\n<p>Yet this week Harry was happy to go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> to promote his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/invictus-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Invictus Games<\/a> and visit veterans who had been wounded in battle.<\/p>\n<p>His visit \u2014 and the spotlight on the injured \u2014 was a gallant thing to have done.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s hard to understand how Harry is happy to go into a war zone but unwilling to walk around the more salubrious areas of London.<\/p>\n<p>He seems a very confused man who is taking advice from too many quarters.<\/p>\n<p>CONFUSED MAN<\/p>\n<p>He has failed to live up to what was expected of him as a prince, which was a commitment to royal duty, so he bailed out, but blamed everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>He should have listened to his grandfather, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/prince-philip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Philip<\/a>, who explained to him that, as a royal \u201cyou can\u2019t have all the advantages and perks without the responsibility and the obligation\u201d. Harry wants the advantages: great wealth, a beautiful home, wife and children. He said he wanted a private life but he has had anything but.<\/p>\n<p>By putting himself in the public eye through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/netflix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netflix<\/a> and other deals he effectively becomes a potential target.<\/p>\n<p>His situation has echoes of the Duke of Windsor who abdicated his responsibilities as King. He too felt he was not given what he deserved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Prince Harry speaking with a person at the Superhumans Centre in Lviv, Ukraine.\" height=\"960\" width=\"640\" data-credit=\"Reuters\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2025-superhumans-centre-handout-via-986283988_fcc26a.jpg\" data-caption=\"Yet this week Harry was happy to go to Ukraine to promote his Invictus Games and visit veterans who had been wounded in battle\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2025-superhumans-centre-handout-via-986283988_fcc26a.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>4<\/p>\n<p>Yet this week Harry was happy to go to Ukraine to promote his Invictus Games and visit veterans who had been wounded in battleCredit: Reuters<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at the 2024 ESPY Awards.\" height=\"960\" width=\"718\" data-credit=\"Getty\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/exclusive-coverage-l-r-prince-916415812.jpg\" data-caption=\"Harry has failed to live up to what was expected of him as a prince, which was a commitment to royal duty\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/exclusive-coverage-l-r-prince-916415812.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>4<\/p>\n<p>Harry has failed to live up to what was expected of him as a prince, which was a commitment to royal dutyCredit: Getty<\/p>\n<p>He continually asked his brother, King George VI, for things \u2014 forgetting it was his decision to quit.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted in the end he lost faith in himself and the institution he had deserted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very hard to shake off one\u2019s past, especially a past as rigid and as fixed as mine,\u201d he later said.<\/p>\n<p>Harry would surely agree with this. But he has cashed in on his name.<\/p>\n<p>And there is no reason for the British people to want to pay to provide Harry and his family with state-funded security protection when he visits.<\/p>\n<p>He is no longer a working member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/royal-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Family<\/a> and that was his choice.<\/p>\n<p>A timeline of Prince Harry&#8217;s family feud<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content--intro\">IN 2018, the Sun told how\u00a0&#8220;simmering tension<\/p>\n<p>The first hints of friction reportedly came after William was introduced to Meghan when she was staying at Kensington Palace.<\/p>\n<p>Once she&#8217;d returned home to Canada, William and Harry sat down for a brother-to-brother chat.<\/p>\n<p>He knew Harry was already head-over-heels for her but it has been claimed he advised him to take it slowly.<\/p>\n<p>The younger prince reportedly didn&#8217;t take too kindly to the advice, with one royal source saying he &#8220;went mental&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Then in June 2019 Harry and Meghan officially\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/fabulous\/9336022\/meghan-markle-prince-harry-split-charity-kate-middleton-william\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">split off from the charity they shared with William and Kate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Foundation will be divided between the Sussexes and Cambridges as the couples focus on their own separate charitable endeavours.<\/p>\n<p>Prince William and Prince Harry first established the Royal Foundation in 2009 before\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/kate-middleton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kate<\/a>\u00a0joined two years later shortly after their engagement was announced.<\/p>\n<p>The trio would often appear together at events and the Foundation had huge successes with projects like the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/invictus-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Invictus Games<\/a>\u00a0for injured veterans and the mental health Heads Together campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Foundation said the decision was made following the conclusion of a review into its structure &#8211; but added both couples will continue to work together in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Harry and Meg were living in close proximity to Kate and Wills within the Kensington Palace estate, but they switched to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/fabulous\/6314927\/frogmore-cottage-harry-meghan-princess-eugenie-where\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frogmore Cottage<\/a>\u00a0in Windsor before baby\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/archie-harrison-mountbatten-windsor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archie<\/a>\u00a0was born.<\/p>\n<p>The move further increased rumours of a fallout.<\/p>\n<p>Harry also hinted in his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/10178745\/prince-harry-meghan-markle-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ITV documentary<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;Harry and Meghan, An African Journey&#8221; that he and his brother had grown apart.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Harry and Meghan give their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/14277841\/meghan-markle-oprah-interview-full-transcript\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bombshell interview with Oprah<\/a>\u00a0Winfrey where Harry accused his dad of cutting him off financially.<\/p>\n<p>Harry then jetted back to UK to join William in unveiling a statue to their mother Princess Diana in the grounds of Kensington Palace. But sources claimed William didn\u2019t want to attend the memorial amid their ongoing rift.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, just before their grandmother the Queen died, sources claimed Kate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/14679757\/kate-peacemaker-harry-will-private-chat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acts as a &#8220;peacemaker&#8221; between the brothers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/20944177\/harry-says-william-attacked-him-meg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harry claimed his brother &#8220;knocked him to the floor&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0during an argument about Meghan, in his memoir.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/royals\/20242449\/prince-harrys-book-spare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spare<\/a>, Harry said William branded\u00a0Meghan\u00a0&#8220;rude&#8221; and &#8220;difficult&#8221; during a row.<\/p>\n<p>Harry alleged William &#8220;grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and \u2026 knocked me to the floor&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was left with a visible injury to his back following the argument in 2019 at Nottingham Cottage on the grounds of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/5925990\/kensington-palace-london-royal-residence-kate-william\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kensington Palace<\/a>, where he was living at the time.<\/p>\n<p>In January this year,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/royals\/25768275\/king-charles-reunion-prince-harry-helicopter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harry flew in to be with Charles<\/a>\u00a0after the monarch&#8217;s shock cancer diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>Harry flew back to the US the following day &#8211; without seeing Wills.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In May he visited the UK for a three-day visit without seeing King Charles or Prince William.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHEN Harry described his killing of 25 Taliban in Afghanistan as \u201cchess pieces taken off the board\u201d he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,210,447,7710,519,118,1890],"class_list":{"0":"post-17575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-mental-health-and-illness","13":"tag-prince-harry","14":"tag-royal-families","15":"tag-royal-family","16":"tag-the-sun-newspaper","17":"tag-the-sun-on-sunday"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114332880273008661","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}