{"id":619607,"date":"2025-12-08T07:44:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T07:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/619607\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T07:44:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T07:44:17","slug":"prince-harry-joked-about-life-in-the-royal-family-it-reminds-you-of-the-series-downton-abbey-only-with-more-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/619607\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry joked about life in the royal family: It reminds you of the series &#8220;Downton Abbey&#8221;, only with more drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gt-block\"><strong>At the British-American Business Council&#8217;s Christmas luncheon, held in Santa Monica, California, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, joked about life in the royal family.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the prince was a guest and speaker at the 65th annual Christmas luncheon, and on that occasion he compared life in the royal family to the popular British television series &#8220;Downton Abbey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People sometimes ask me if growing up with the royal family was like &#8216;Downton Abbey.&#8217; Yes, but only one of those worlds is filled with drama, intrigue, fancy dinners and marriages to Americans, while the other is just a TV series,&#8221; Harry said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"9d939\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"17072f83c348abbde15728be961f4cf9\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 690 396\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/princi-harry.png\" width=\"690\" height=\"396\" alt=\"\"\/> Prince Harry<\/p>\n<p>The Duke of Sussex also reflected on life in the United States as a British citizen: &#8220;For me, being British is not about where you stand, but what you stand for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harry also mentioned that celebrating American Independence Day was a new experience for him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a new world for me, celebrating independence from Britain and especially independence from my great-great-great-great-grandfather,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I look forward to greeting my compatriots from &#8216;left of the pond&#8217; if they get through customs and ICE,&#8221; Harry joked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block\">His speech followed a surprise appearance on &#8220;The Late Show with Stephen Colbert&#8221; on December 3, where he joked about how he &#8220;lost his way&#8221; while auditioning for the role of a prince in a Christmas romantic comedy. <strong>\/Telegraph\/<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the British-American Business Council&#8217;s Christmas luncheon, held in Santa Monica, California, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, joked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[447,5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-619607","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\/115682834097599670","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619607","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=619607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}