We’re simply never going to get past this ridiculous storyline of “Prince Harry and Meghan will eventually run out of money and come crawling back.” They’re still going to be saying that in 2040, I swear to god. These people have been banging their heads against the wall, repeating that wishful-thinking lie for over six years. It’s not true, it’s never been true and it will never be true. Well, that lie is the basis of yet another royal reporter’s big exclusive. The Daily Mirror’s Russell Myers reports that after years of Harry and Meghan making tens of millions of dollars, they’re obviously running out of money and desperate to return to the bosom of the “popular” Windsor clan (I sh-t you not). The reason this story is different than all of the other times these people have claimed the exact same thing? It’s because Buckingham Palace has started to leak gossip about Harry asking his father to appear at the Invictus Games in Birmingham next year.

Forlorn, battered and bruised from his experiences in the courtroom, Prince Harry declared he could no longer fight anymore – for in his own words, “life is precious”. That sentence was uttered more than a year ago, following the loss of his appeal over the levels of security he believes he and his family are entitled to while in the UK. Since Harry and his wife Meghan quit their royal roles in 2020, the Duke of Sussex has been no stranger to the court room, nor to earning incredible amounts of money at the expense of the family he left behind.

Only now, after the book promos, the interviews and the Netflix series have all but dried up, he is seeking reconciliation with his loved ones that he has largely been estranged from for the past six years.

…Long before the announcement that they were leaving their royal roles in search of “financial freedom”, Harry and Meghan plotted a scenario where they would be the first royals to create a new way of working for The Firm. The ‘half in-half out’ model suggested was roundly shot down by the late Queen Elizabeth II leading to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex having to leave the institution with nothing other than their association with the royal family.

For a good while, that connection served as almost the sole vehicle to earning tens of millions of pounds in the corporate world, seemingly without regard to the destruction of the relationships they had vowed to honour. There is no doubt, aside from those who fawn over their every announcement or TV appearance, their star has fallen along with their global popularity.

What better way to resurrect one’s profile than to cosy up to the royal family who enjoy favourable approval ratings and a monarchy who has garnered as much respect for his global statesman role, as he has genuine sympathy for the way he has handled this particular family fallout.

Harry and Meghan’s latest meeting with the King and Queen, who attended as a watchful eye over any potential deviations from the planned pleasantries, is a key moment for the Sussexes. There is little chance the Prince and Princess of Wales will welcome them back into palace grounds, let alone the royal fold.

Now I have learned that Harry wants to capitalise on this new found relationship by planning to convince his father to be by his side for the homecoming of his Invictus Games event. It just so happens that the one man who would have had the power to convince the monarch against the idea, the King and Queen’s principal private secretary Sir Clive Alderton, is to step down from his role next year after more than two decades of service to the royal household. This may yet prove decisive in Harry’s plan to achieve a very public reunion.

[From The Daily Mirror]

It’s giving “rocking in a padded cell, mumble-ranting about how the broke Sussexes need the king’s permission to exist.” The root of this exclusive is probably something like “Harry mentioned something about how his father should make an appearance at Invictus Birmingham next year,” and Myers twisted that into this ridiculous royalist fiction. The truth is, Harry is actually trying to help out his father. Everyone can see that Charles is a deadbeat dad, but it will be horrible for Charles’ image if he becomes the first head of state to completely skip the Invictus Games. This isn’t about Harry’s relationship with his father, it’s about a king’s relationship with the armed forces and his nation’s veteran community. The Windsors want to completely ignore Invictus veterans out of spite, because 90% of what they do is for an audience of one, Harry. They’re so unhinged and singularly focused on “snubbing Harry” that they are fully prepared to harm their own images and Invictus.

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