Off The Record
Public Calls To Strip Harry And Meghan Of HRH Titles Grow After Explosive Interview
Last night, Prince Harry’s scathing criticism of King Charles drew increasing criticism from the public, the Royal Family, and government.
A BBC interview in which the Duke of Sussex claimed that his father ‘won’t speak to me’ and that he was the victim of a ‘Establishment stitch-up’ sparked considerable incredulity.
Additionally, he claimed that the Royal Household was meddling in his fight to regain his UK police security; however, the Government and Buckingham Palace denied this accusation yesterday.
The Duke’s extraordinary request that Home Secretary Yvette Cooper “urgently” look into the committee that decided to downgrade his security was vehemently rejected by government insiders. Whitehall sources noted that the committee is intended to be completely free from political influence.
According to palace insiders, his TV outburst regarding the King’s disease, declaring that he “doesn’t know how much longer he has left,” was especially offensive and ran the risk of widening the divide with his family.
A Mail on Sunday poll today reveals resounding support for the King in his dispute with his youngest son, dealing the Duke yet another humiliating blow.
Sixty-four percent of voters prefer Charles, but only thirty-six percent support his son, according to the Find Out Now survey.
Additionally, it demonstrates that the public wants Harry and Meghan to lose their HRH titles.
Despite their agreement to refrain from doing so, it was revealed this week that Meghan had been using the title in private.
Palace officials also attacked the BBC for failing to question the Duke’s ludicrous allegations.
Harry said the Royal Family had unduly influenced the Home Office’s Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures, or Ravec, after judges rejected his security argument on Friday.
He claimed that when he found out that two important Royal Household aides are on the committee, it astounded him.
According to a royal source, their involvement was well-established, and they denied any “advocacy” role. According to the insider, “they advise on what the royals are up to.”
The Duke stated in his television interview that they assisted in influencing choices on behalf of the Royal Family and that he would request that the Home Secretary “look at this very, very carefully” and examine the “influence” that Ravec and the Royal Household had on the matter.
But a Government spokesman told The Mail on Sunday: “All members work together to advise the independent chair on the protective security of the Royal Family and key public figures.”
Ravec, not the Home Secretary, has made these choices in accordance with long-standing agreements.
The BBC, which interviewed Harry close to his California home, acknowledged a “lapse” in editorial standards in its portrayal of the interview on the Radio 4 Today show.
It said: “Claims were repeated that the process had been ‘an Establishment stitch-up’ and we failed to properly challenge this and other allegations.”
The Home Office is ultimately in charge of this issue, and we ought to have taken their statement into consideration.
In that statement, the department said, “We are pleased that the court has found in favour of the Government’s position in this case. The UK Government’s protective security system is rigorous and proportionate.”
Following Harry’s outburst, Buckingham Palace stated, “All of these issues have been examined repeatedly and meticulously by the courts, with the same conclusion reached on each occasion.” The BBC claimed it should have included this viewpoint as well.
As England’s second most senior judge rejected Harry’s appeal court attempt to reinstate his police bodyguards while in the UK, Harry declared that he would never bring his kids, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, to Britain and asserted that “the other side” in the case had “won in keeping me unsafe.”
In 2020, the Duke departed Britain, accusing the Royal Household of abusing security measures ‘to cage’ members of the Royal Family, preventing them ‘from being allowed to chose a different life’.
He said, “It’s really quite sad that I won’t be able to show my children my homeland.”
Royal biographer and historian AN Wilson said, “You keep thinking, Meghan and Harry can’t get any worse. And then they do.”
He added that since Meghan’s arrival, Harry, “a largely popular, merry prince who served his country in Afghanistan with courage and good humour, has become estranged from the British public.”
“Now, he is a humourless whinger, adrift from his former friends and speaks in the Californian psychobabble that Meghan has picked up among her ghastly Montecito neighbours.”
“It cannot continue. The King should strip them of the right to dignify themselves by their royal titles.”
“Not just the HRH, but their Duke and Duchess of Sussex titles. They should become simply Mr and Mrs Windsor, free to sink into their pathetic, unloved, sunlit exile, and the decades of pointless boredom that stretch ahead – a hell entirely of their own making.”
During the interview with the BBC’s Nada Tawfik, Harry complained, “I’ve been treated differently to everybody else that exists, I have been singled out.”
According to the Duke, this court battle’mattered the most’ out of all of his court battles, thus Friday’s decision is a devastating blow.
He will now have to pay for both parties’ legal fees.
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