Carole Malone

Carole Malone is a journalist, commentator and TV personality whose career in print, digital and broadcast media spans decades.

Prince Harry's delusional - he's the reason he's not part of his family, not the press

Prince Harry

Prince Harry has blamed the press for his rift with the royals. (Image: Getty)

Is the delusional man-child Prince Harry ever going to have the guts take responsibility for what HE’S done to his own family?

This week he made one of his stupidest proclamations yet – that his rift with the royals was caused by his lone, heroic battle with the tabloid press. And he said “it would be nice” if the family had joined forces with him to take on the media together.

He made this nonsensical claim in a new ITV documentary which, from what we’ve seen, in no way challenges his ridiculous, self-pitying claims. In fact, it’s his overpowering self-pity which has clouded his brain and his judgement to the point where he can no longer see the reality of anything.

His relationship with his family is smashed – probably beyond repair – because he and his wife branded them racists on the global stage causing them all personal hurt and damaging the brand of the Monarchy to boot. He slated his own Father as an emotional cripple, a bit of an idiot who loved his teddy bear. He branded Camilla “dangerous”, and alleged she had a calculated agenda to remedy her image as the “other woman”.

He completely betrayed Kate, who had treated him like a brother, and divulged embarrassing secrets about his brother Wills. Oh, and he hugely upset the Queen in the last years of her life.

Harry’s forever banging on about how his mother’s privacy was invaded by the media, yet he has repeatedly invaded his own family’s privacy in the media by revealing harmful and embarrassing information about them – for money.

And doesn’t he see the hypocrisy in his obsessional hatred of the media. HE now makes his living from it. He made these silly claims in a (media) documentary. He’s forever on the telly in the US moaning and whining. He’s written a book which he flogged relentlessly in the media which is why he needs to look in the mirror and realise he’s now part of the establishment he hates.

Has he really disappeared so far down his own rabbit hole (surrounded by sycophants telling him he’s wonderful and sacking those who don’t) that he doesn’t see it’s HIM who has destroyed his relationship with his family thanks to his own cruel and disingenuous mouth.

His family now want nothing to do with him because of his treachery, his cruelty yet in his vacuous head Harry blames their estrangement on the fact he – not them – took on the tabloid press single handed. Which of course isn’t true as it was Wills’ chief of staff who first went to the police over suspicions of illegal phone hacking.

Harry’s never been good at taking personal responsibility for the chaos he causes – he prefers to blame everyone else. It’s cowardly – but then it’s easier than facing up to the tsunami of pain he’s inflicted on his family.

But until he does, his devastated – and now very angry – family won’t have anything to do with him and will continue to treat him as the traitor he is.

The realisation that will be the ultimate loser in all this must surely have hit home by now?

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