{"id":616356,"date":"2025-12-06T17:29:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T17:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/616356\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T17:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T17:29:26","slug":"prince-harry-jokes-life-in-the-royal-family-is-like-downton-abbey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/616356\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry jokes life in the Royal Family is like Downton Abbey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince Harry joked that life in the Royal Family is like Downton Abbey as he spoke at a business lunch in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

The Duke of Sussex made a series of jokes while he served as a surprise guest at the British American Business Council’s lunch.<\/p>\n

The 41-year-old was at the event in LA to celebrate the “deeply personal” relationship between the UK and the USA.<\/p>\n

During the lunch, he took an opportunity to compare royal family life to that of Lord Julian Fellows’ Downton Abbey.<\/p>\n

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The duke joked: “People sometimes ask if growing up with the Royal Family was a bit like Julian’s Downton Abbey.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, but only one of those worlds is filled with drama, intrigue, elaborate dinners, marriages to Americans, and the other is a TV show.”<\/p>\n

The royal was in the spotlight this week for taking aim at Donald Trump during a comedic appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.<\/p>\n

The Duke of Sussex appeared in a sketch where he played himself searching for a role in a fictional Hallmark festive film.<\/p>\n

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The royal took aim at Donald Trump during a comedic appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/p>\n

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During the segment, Harry acted as if he was lost while walking around the television studio, saying he was looking for auditions for “Gingerbread Christmas Prince saves Christmas in Nebraska”.<\/p>\n

When Mr Colbert asked why genuine royalty would pursue such roles, the duke replied: “You Americans are obsessed with Christmas movies, and you’re clearly obsessed with royalty, so why not?”<\/p>\n

The host challenged Harry’s suggestion that Americans were obsessed with royalty, prompting the Duke to quip: “Really? I hear you elected a king” – in what appeared to be a nod to the No Kings protests against the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

The duke also made a jest about CBS’s recent legal settlement with the President, joking that he would “do anything” to get the part, including settling “a baseless lawsuit with the White House – all the things you people in TV do”.<\/p>\n

When Mr Colbert argued that he personally had not been involved in such activities, Harry retorted: “Maybe that’s why you’re cancelled.”<\/p>\n

The audience cheered as Mr Colbert awarded Harry the title of “official Late Show Prince of Christmas”.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Wednesday, the pair teased the duke’s appearance with a promotional video that recreated a viral moment from Great British Bake Off.<\/p>\n

In the clip, Harry mimicked presenter Alison Hammond’s voice while sitting in the guest chair, asking Mr Colbert: “If you were treated like a king for a day, what would you want me to do for you?”<\/p>\n

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The duke appeared on American television on Wednesday evening<\/p>\n

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Mr Colbert replied in the style of Northern Irish baker Mark Lutton: “Bake for me probably?”<\/p>\n

The exchange recreated the well-known misunderstanding where Hammond thought Lutton had said “beg” rather than “bake”.<\/p>\n

The Duchess of Sussex shared the preview clip on her Instagram story before the broadcast.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s broadcast was the duke’s second appearance on The Late Show, after his January 2023 visit to promote his memoir Spare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry joked that life in the Royal Family is like Downton Abbey as he spoke at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[447,5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-616356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-prince-harry","9":"tag-royal","10":"tag-royal-families","11":"tag-royal-family","12":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115673809755667134","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616356","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=616356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}