The ‘establishment stitch up’ of Prince Harry continues unabated through the press

Prince Harry was in Las Vegas this week for The Diana Award. There are few photos from his public appearance – The Diana Award posted one photo of Harry on stage, and I’ve seen some pics on Sussex.com, but there were no paparazzi pics of Harry in or around the venue. Harry’s appearance was at the Knowledge 25 conference, and he helped launch The Diana Award’s Pledge to Invest initiative.

Meanwhile, everyone is still obviously talking about Harry’s BBC interview and the loss of his security appeal. King Charles and Buckingham Palace threw such a massive tantrum, the BBC had to “apologize” for their “lapse in standards” when they aired an interview with security analyst Richard Aitch. That was the interview in which Aitch agreed with Harry that the court loss was part of an “establishment stitch-up.” The establishment which has spent five-plus years stitching up the Sussexes does not appreciate being called out, so they continue to pull strings and whine about it.

Speaking of, The Guardian published a column by Marina Hyde in which she busied herself with palace lies, obfuscation and royalist bullsh-t. One of her biggest points is that Harry should pay for his own security. Gee, why didn’t he think of that?? Oh right, he pays for his own private security, and he repeatedly offered to pay back the cost of British protection. He even went to court (several years ago) to see if he could arrange to pay back the costs of police protection in the UK. They told him no, you can’t pay it back because you’re not getting security because you left the royal family! I’m not going to excerpt anything from Hyde’s column but it’s completely asinine and the Guardian should be ashamed of this royal boot-licking.

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45 Responses to “The ‘establishment stitch up’ of Prince Harry continues unabated through the press”

  1. Tessa says:

    Charles and William “have no rules” just do as they please

    • Mslove says:

      Chuck’s not even being subtle about abusing his power. He’s out there evicting, bribing, snubbing, and being a spiteful a-hole.

      • Alteya says:

        It isn’t only Charles, keep that in mind. William has a rep on ravec too, advocating against security for Sussex family. It was william who outed their location in Canada via danw.

      • Is that so? says:

        Don’t forgett theft—having the Sussex pay back for the renovation of Frogmore then evicting them. If Charles or his people had paid back that multimillion cost it would have been trumpeted in the British tabloids.

        Charles captured it to make up for their royal shortfall like it was resources of one of their African colony back in the nightmare days.

    • Hypocrisy says:

      Their ever changing “royal protocols” are just as horrific as trump’s executive orders.. both based on hate and the damage they do. The BRF has egg on their faces and these articles are pure propaganda garbage.

  2. More stirring of the lying shit. They will have articles for weeks on this bullshit. What they fail to see is that they have been exposed and so they must try to clean up in aisle 9!

  3. Beverley says:

    At one time, I held the BBC in high regard. But it’s become obvious that now they are nothing but stenographers to power.

    • SuOutdoors says:

      Same here. When I did my first steps into journalism there were quite a lot of quite good newspapers. But our absolute lighthouses were the New York Times, the Washington Post and The Guardian. Gone are these times… I could cry over the massive loss of quality, integrity, and journalistic values!

  4. Blogger says:

    I went there to read about the waning influence of Murdoch after the Australian election but skipped the rest after I saw her headline.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/06/as-australias-election-result-reminds-us-news-corp-no-longer-has-the-power-to-sway-voters

    I’ve realised, that like most rats, she’s not very bright that Marina. Snarky, gossipy, bitchy, true; but there’s not much else to her because she refuses to discuss the institutional and legal ramifications of Harry’s security. No bigger picture for her.

    I think the Guardian may not be renewing her contract hence her blast these past few months. Anyway, as long as the Guardian has her, I won’t pay and the Guardian knows how toxic she is because they won’t open her “opinion” for comments.

    • JSLS says:

      I’m with you. I’ve donated to the Guardian in the past but I won’t again until they stop posting these kind of trashy articles. We already have a Daily Fail.

  5. Lady D says:

    I believe in treating people how you want to be treated, and this collection of truly heinous humans continue to show us daily just how they want to be treated.

  6. Iheoma Nwakpadolu says:

    The fearful thing about journalism today is the laziness of its practitioners. If you want to lie, at least do so on the bases of truth. At least that will show some level of hardwork and respect for your readers /listeners.

    • Blogger says:

      I think that’s why people are turning off when the evidence before people’s eyes are being refuted.

      The Emperor has no clothes despite the attempts by the rats to try and convince otherwise. The British media operates like the Russian media at this stage when it comes to Harry.

  7. Jais says:

    I haven’t read it but if she’s seriously writing that Harry should pay for his security when he already tried to, as has been documented in the courts, then she’s a truly terrible journalist. Or as I suspect, she’s a horrible person bc she knows he did but it doesn’t fit the story she wants to tell. So she’s purposely lying. As they all do. Just another sycophantic suck-up all to happy to lie for the sake of the king.

    • Blogger says:

      Didn’t get past the headline 😂

      Marina is doing a massive disservice to the Guardian because they need money from subscribers. And I refuse to subscribe to an outlet that is supposed to show a semblance of fairness and balance. Same to you Pearson publications,

      I may have missed it but did a whole lot of Murdoch rats migrate to Pearson? Ie FT and the Economist?

      • Jais says:

        Her writing has been nasty for a while so I don’t even bother. I’m not sure about Pearson? But I wouldn’t be surprised if someone with a tabloid background is now an owner or editor.

      • Blogger says:

        The Economist doesn’t have bylines so in the words of Sir Humphrey, in the fullness of time I’m sure the rats behind these hit pieces will be revealed 😂

        To think all these papers support a corrupt institution at its core. Talk about the death of liberal democracy.

    • Dee(2) says:

      There doesn’t seem to be anything more difficult than for people who consider themselves to be progressive to address their blind spots when it comes to racism. There’s a distinct refusal among these so above it all types to acknowledge that they hold a lot of the same reprehensible views as people on the opposite side of the horseshoe than them. They just try to hide their bigoted views under a veneer of ” liberal” wit ( or what they consider wit).

      And there’s a very specific type that seems to take personal offense to how far Harry is willing to go for this woman. There’s a distinct non-verbalization of why is she worth it? And they don’t want to acknowledge why that bothers them so much, because of course being accused of racism is worse than being a racist.

      You know that he offered to pay for security, and they said no because you don’t get to” buy the services of security in that country”. You know he deserves security because other people who have been in his position who are no longer in public serving roles are still getting it. And you know that there are literally people in prison right now for threats made to his family, in that country, which indicates that there is a high threat risk to him and his family. But of course it’s just him being petulant it’s not we’ve created a horrible environment that’s literally unsafe for people to come to, because we are so bitter that he didn’t choose us.

      • Jais says:

        Some of these “journalists” really need to take a look at themselves. Bc if something ever were to happen, they’d be doing their best to scrub these articles from existence. There is something so very capitol of the Hunger Games to me about all of this. And these writers are a part of that. Reveling in calling a man petulant who was essentially born into the Truman show by no choice of his own. I’ll say it again. Barbarism.

      • Blogger says:

        Thanks for taking one for the team.

        Just another common garden variety racist with insecurities over her relationships. Got it. Piers never left his wife for her. The same way Boris never left his wife for Pets.

        Just like Camilla T, she needs therapy.

  8. Lady Esther says:

    Is Marina an actual journalist though, as opposed to an opinion writer/podcaster/whatever? They are usually held to lower standards. However, she should be forced to write a retraction about Harry because it was documented in court that he offered to pay, was denied and ACTUALLY SUED TO HAVE THE RIGHT TO PAY FOR HIS OWN SECURITY. Her repeating the lie that Harry wants taxpayers to pay for his and his family’s security is a disgrace. That’s GB News, Fox News level BS and it should shame the Guardian.

    That said…how the mighty have fallen. Her columns on Brexit and particularly the pandemic activities of Boris Johnson’s government were must-reads, but she has completely lost the plot. She sounds like a lying, shrieking harpy and it’s not a good look. Does she need clicks that badly?

    • Blogger says:

      She struck me to be in the mould of that female columnist of the FT, Lucy Kellaway, in her previous lighthearted columns but after her tabloid background (ex-Sun?) she’s turned the Guardian into a ratty Murdoch version on all things Sussex. That’s not good for the Guardian in the long term.

      It’s institutional warfare against the Sussexes and Marina’s happy to play handmaiden after Piers et al keep failing. Write on Marina, into the abyss you go.

    • somebody says:

      To my way of thinking even those who are opinion writers should have some logic and proof behind their opinions. They shouldn’t be making up stuff or lying.

  9. Maxine Branch says:

    Those gutter rats can whine until the cows come home. What Harry stated and was supported by this 30 year protection officer is now a part of public record. On Sussex.com Harry laid bare the relevant facts he uncovered from this hearing and there is nothing they can do about it. His birth family obviously wants him and his family dead or seriously injured, hence the hysteria over security in New York, suggesting other countries not offer them security , not providing security in his home country, stripping away the protected home they had in the UK.

  10. SURE says:

    Some MH gossip: “She was later sacked by Sun editor David Yelland after it emerged she had been exchanging e-mails with Piers Morgan, editor of rival newspaper the Daily Mirror.” So she worked for Rupert Murdoch and had an affair with Piers Morgan – say no more.

    • Blogger says:

      In this case, is she applying for her old job back at The Sun?

      Maybe she’s still having an affair with Piers. Bedroom whispers etc etc

      My apologies to Lucy Kellaway – sterling job.

      Marina – you backed the wrong horse like the rest.

    • Jais says:

      Ewww.

  11. Zapp Brannigan says:

    This woman willingly had an affair with Piers Morgan (When PM wife was pregnant, to boot) so good judgement is not a strong point for her.

    • Blogger says:

      Is Harry’s legal action against the Mirror (?)/Piers still on going? She may be called as witness 🤔

      • Amy Bee says:

        No, the Mirror was the first to settle with Harry in December 2023.

      • Blogger says:

        Thanks for that. In which case, I can’t yet see the link on why her bile has taken on such a personal bent. It’s playground bullying at best. She’ll need therapy like all the rest.

      • Jais says:

        The Daily Mail is the only case left.

  12. Normades says:

    They’re still in meltdown because it obviously got under their skin. That’s all they have now. No access, no scoops just regurgitated spite.

  13. Amy Bee says:

    I mean if we gone on Hyde’s premise, the Guardian should be asking the same of the Royal Family. They’re a hundred times richer than Harry and the Government pays for their security.

  14. Connie says:

    I think the majority of Brit’s supports. Harry. They’re afraid to go public because of backlash. They show their support by actions not words. The crowds at royal events say it all. William n Kate are cowards and incompetent to deal with the Caribbean.

    • Blogger says:

      Chuck’s reign is already tainted by Diana so I don’t understand why they’re so afraid of offending him and the Rottweiler by attacking the most popular Royal incessantly.

      Hating on the Sussexes is supposed to be a profitable industry but it’s not a sustainable business model.

  15. Asantewaa says:

    I unsubscribed to The Guardian after almost 30years of reading it, the last straw was marina Hynde’s anti Sussex articles recently!

    • Blogger says:

      Hope you told them why!

    • ParkRunMum says:

      Hear, hear!!! I unsubscribed to the Guardian as well. I had been making a monthly contribution via direct debit for a decade or more, never gave it a second thought, until Marina Hyde’s column of…. 10 September, if memory serves, 2024? I wrote a letter to the editor and discontinued financial support. I still occasionally opened her column — and the odd article here and there — but the last straw was another column she wrote about Sentebale, about a month ago? IIRC. I wrote a *second* letter to the editor, and now refuse to click on the Guardian. She is vile. I had *loved* her work up until Sussex meltdown number 5,000,000,000…… I even bought a book of her published columns. I will never click her byline again. Best part?? She wrote a hysterically hypocritical piece in defence of an aide Boris Johnson had appointed to the House of Lords. A 29-year-old lass, with long dyed blonde hair, a buxom figure, and no accomplishments to her CV to date… but serving Boris as a SPAD. I mean. Most reporters who picked up on the appointment were amused and the tone of the coverage was ribald and rife with innuendo. But… what did they expect?? Marina jumps to the woman’s defence, in true righteous fashion. Yet her coverage of Meghan proves she’s cool with any amount of hysterical misogyny, provided it’s directed at a woman who is American and biracial. Right. Heave-ho.

      • Julianna2 says:

        Thank you ParkRunMom for what you have done in sending your opinions and concerns to the Guardian! I too have stopped my subscription to them for the very reasons you have outlined. I keep wanting to send a letter of complaint/concern, but because I want my details to be correct (unlike Marina Hyde) I haven’t had the time to write a letter that I feel properly conveys the Guardian’s lack of journalistic integrity by letting Marina Hyde spew her untruths. Opinion writers can have differing opinions, but when they base their opinions off of inaccurate information because they can’t be bothered to check the facts or they make them up, then they are just as bad as the tabloids. Again, thanks for doing this and sharing!

  16. QuiteContrary says:

    Contrast the photo of Harry at The Diana Award event with the photo of the left-behinds on the balcony.

    I know which event I would find interesting!

    As for Marina Hyde, I agree that anyone who sleeps with Piers Morgan must be vile and twisted.

  17. sunnyside up says:

    I read the Hyde article before it came up on here, what was really frustrating was there was no way to refute the claim that Harry wanted the taxpayer to pay for it. No comments allowed, I expect better from the Guardian. They use to be a republican paper but now they are no better than the rest.

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