THE last time we saw Prince Harry on TV was during his wife Meghan’s Netflix show, hovering in the background.
It was at a cringeworthy garden brunch in the Californian sunshine held for “her community” as she gushed about this amazing new chapter in her life.
Harry’s whiny interview with the BBC was a perfectly staged show[/caption]
He moaned King Charles ‘won’t speak’ to him because of this ‘security stuff’[/caption]
Viewers glimpsed Meghan offering Harry a “mimosa”, before cameras zoomed in as he held his glass aloft to toast her, saying, “To you”, followed by the briefest kiss and Meghan softly laying her head on his shoulder.
A perfectly staged show.
Which is exactly what his whiny interview with the BBC on Friday was too.
But this latest misjudged performance, moaning about losing his multimillion-pound fight for protection, was a far bigger mistake.
Harry looked even more stupid and deluded than he ever had before through this outrageous publicity stunt designed to force the King to welcome him back into the fold but will, in reality, only infuriate The Firm further.
“Devastated” Harry claimed that he had lost the appeal because of an “establishment stitch-up”.
How Harry — fifth in line to the throne, raised in royal privilege at taxpayers’ expense — can’t grasp that he IS part of that establishment whether he is a working royal or not is mind-boggling.
He moaned Charles “won’t speak” to him because of this “security stuff” — forgetting that none of his family can trust him.
To expect their forgiveness or reconciliation without any hint of a grovelling apology is laughable. It shows just how unhinged Harry really is now.
He didn’t even get the irony of saying he wants an end to their battles, and that this is a private family matter while shooting his mouth off in front of an American journalist and her camera crew.
And while on the subject of private family matters, he even dared to discuss Charles’ health, saying he doesn’t know “how much longer” the monarch has left to live.
Which is disrespectful and surely devastating for the King to hear.
Father and son couldn’t be more different. Throughout his cancer battle, Charles has remained an optimistic, hard-working royal devoted to service and is constantly trying to support others suffering with the disease.
Thankfully, Harry told the BBC he doesn’t “see a world in which I would bring my wife and children back to the UK at this point”.
What a relief. Because I can’t see a world where we would want them in this country ever again.
The Duke and Duchess are treacherous.
They have sat in their Montecito mansion bitterly dissecting every slight they think they’ve suffered the last few years and actually believing their own lies, convinced the Royal Family are entirely to blame.
Nothing is ever their fault.
Spat out his venom
And although Meghan wasn’t in front of the camera on Friday, I am sure she was pulling the strings behind the scenes.
You can imagine them poring over the interview afterwards.
Meghan supportively stroking “H’s” arm and reassuring him that he performed brilliantly, that the interview was the right thing to do.
She will tell him that he’s a genius for saying he wants a reconciliation, putting the onus on Charles and William to make the next move.
The tension we saw in his clenched jaw as he spat out his venom will subside and the tears which he was on the verge of will roll down his face with relief.
I hope the Royal Family agree that this odious man and his vacuous wife cannot be trusted again.
Jane Atkinson
He is so infatuated with Meghan that he hangs on her every word.
He is such an arrogant upstart that he will believe he did no wrong.
Just as they did with the Oprah interview, his self-serving book and the Netflix documentary, they will convince themselves that speaking out was good for his mental health and the Royal Family should understand that.
I hope the Royal Family agree that this odious man and his vacuous wife cannot be trusted again.
Meghan and Harry appear to be the perfect couple, with her strength and intelligence making up for his weakness and stupidity, but they are a dangerous combination.
And like all wounded animals, nobody can predict what they will do next.
HERE’S TO YOU, BECKS
David Beckham, pictured with wife Victoria, has aged like fine wine[/caption]
IT was back when I was the Spice Girls correspondent on The Sun’s Bizarre column that I first started reporting on David Beckham.
I revealed the couple were engaged and I was there to cover their amazing wedding in Ireland.
Back then Victoria was the classy one, the Posh one, but as time has gone by two really have become one as he proved on Friday when he celebrated his 50th birthday in true style.
Private jet, fancy dinner in Paris, wine tasting in Bordeaux.
And over the years he’s aged just like the fine wine he adores.
YORKS TALK’S TOPS
ACCENT prejudice starts at the age of five, according to a new study which shows that young kids assume people with southern English accents are clever and those with ones from Yorkshire are not.
I’ve been there.
I was once offered a job on a “posh” paper.
Everything was going smoothly until the editor actually met me, realised I was mostly broad Yorkshire with a hint of Geordie mixed in for good measure.
He told me the job was mine if I completely changed the way I speak.
I told him, in straight-talking Yorkshire, to stuff his job and stop behaving like a five-year-old.
WHAT A WHAITE ROAST
Great British Bake Off winner John Whaite is getting his kit off online[/caption]
NOW here’s a lesson in why OnlyFans isn’t always a smart idea.
Great British Bake Off winner John Whaite is getting his kit off online so Waitrose has wiped him off their website.
Annoyed John says: “I just didn’t expect them to delete my entire back catalogue of recipes, to whitewash their pages of my work.”
But if you want to show off your meat and two veg on OnlyFans I get why Waitrose doesn’t want you doing the same thing on its cookery pages.
Makes you wonder if he’s washed his hands.
BRA-VO! LILY SHOWS US HOW TO TURN 40
Lily Allen looked amazing in sultry, sexy glasses and pretty lingerie[/caption]
Lily pictured in a dazzling emerald dress in 2007[/caption]
IMAGINE thinking of ways to celebrate your 40th birthday and deciding: “I know, I will nip on to Instagram and show off my nips.”
Sounds like madness, but that is exactly what Lily Allen did for her 40th.
Each to their own, I guess.
And the mother of two looked amazing – sultry, sexy glasses, pretty lingerie.
Happy birthday to the woman who will always remember exactly how she celebrated her 40th.
BRITT’S WORST CASE
Jenson Button’s wife Brittny had her suitcase containing £250,000 worth of jewellery and designer handbags snatched[/caption]
JENSON BUTTON’s wife Brittny is rightly devastated that her suitcase containing £250,000 worth of jewellery and designer handbags was snatched.
It happened as Jenson was loading up a car outside St Pancras after a romantic break in Paris.
Former Playboy model Brittny only noticed it was missing when Jenson said: “Where is your bag?”
I do have sympathy for her because nobody wants or deserves to have their property stolen by some low-life scumbag.
But if you’ve got a suitcase worth more than the average person’s home, surely the smart thing to do really is to keep your hands and eyes on it at all times.
SOME things I just struggle to believe.
Italian sarnies, apparently, becoming the nation’s favourite is one of them.
Supermarkets say that pricey Italian favourites such as mozzarella, prosciutto ham and beef tomatoes have become the top filling for Brits.
The trend has been inspired by footballers such as Erling Haaland and Phil Foden, who like expensive Italian deli sandwiches.
But they also earn a fortune.
I still stick to my egg mayo Meal Deal, thanks.
THE man who tied up reality TV star Kim Kardashian at gunpoint in an £8million jewel raid has moaned at his trial that life in jail was “horrible”.
Yes, that’s the point.