It’s turned out to be a humiliating and expensive week for the Duke of Sussex. Denied the protection he sought, left looking for a royal bed and now facing hefty costs after losing his lawsuit against Associated Newspapers, he seems more isolated than ever.
This was the last of Prince Harry’s recent battles against what he called in his book “a dreadful mob of dweebs, crones, cut-rate criminals and clinically diagnosable sadists along Fleet Street”.
And this was precisely the kind of drama that Buckingham Palace didn’t want on its doorstep. The timing of the court verdict was a contributing factor in the unholy mess which unravelled this week over where a disgruntled prince might lay his angry head. From a soap opera, the Windsors descended into a farce. Like a tennis ball at Wimbledon, the Prince and the Palace batted his request for somewhere safe to stay back and forth. And, in the end, he lost out – just as he did in his lawsuit. So where does he go from here?
First of all, the Prince needs to accept it’s not just the press or the Palace who are making his life so complicated. Bringing your kids to meet their grandfather – even after such a difficult period of estrangement – really shouldn’t be that difficult.
Harry and his family have reportedly been spending the past week or so enjoying themselves on holiday in Europe, probably in Portugal. We haven’t seen any pictures, they don’t seem to have been trailed by paparazzi, and there haven’t been any security issues, as far as we know. So why couldn’t they have just come to Britain quietly at a time when Harry wasn’t in the middle of drumming up publicity for the Invictus Games – or being the centrepiece of a big lawsuit? If needs be, we could have heard about a reconciliation with the King at a later date when the family was safely back in California. Or not be told at all.
To be fair, there also needs to be some more positive thinking from the other side. Harry should have been given security for his family for the few days they were planning to be here. And don’t tell me there wasn’t a bed available at short notice: surely Harry could have stayed with his dad at Clarence House or in Beatrice’s apartment at St James’s Palace, at Eugenie’s pad in Kensington Palace, or indeed in glorious isolation at Buckingham Palace? I suspect Charles, known for his short fuse, simply lost patience with his dithering son. But that doesn’t help anyone. Harry should have apologised for mucking everyone around, Charles should have found him a bed and given him a hug. It really is time they all grew up.
But this debacle has sliced another wound in the fragile relationship between father and son. William must be watching on from the sidelines only too glad that he didn’t get involved. Or perhaps he did? The rift between the brothers is deeper even than that between Charles and Harry.
In this fast-moving family drama, it’s still not out of the question that the King and Harry will get together sometime this week, but if they do, it will be a meeting between two very bruised and suspicious people. There are suggestions that Meghan and the children could join Harry, possibly staying with his uncle, Earl Spencer at Althorp, from where he could travel for his Invictus engagements in Birmingham. He could also show his children their grandmother Diana’s grave. Poignant as that is, how sad it would be if they still couldn’t meet their living royal grandparent, Charles.
But for now, with his tail between legs, Harry will have to get on with something at which he has proved himself to be a winner: publicising his cherished Invictus Games. He wrote in his book that his father warned him that taking on the press was “a suicide mission”. He has, however, met with partial success in two previous lawsuits. This one, though, was the big one, the one in which he claimed the papers had “made his wife’s life a misery” and his defeat is going to be hard to swallow.
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