What planet is deluded Prince Harry on, lecturing Putin and Trump on the eve of King Charles’ historic trip to America?
Watching him address the Kyiv Security Forum on a secret visit to that country, I wasn’t sure whether to laugh or cry as he said in all solemnity: ‘I am not here as a politician.’
‘I am here as a soldier who understands service, as a humanitarian who has seen the human cost of conflict.’ He then proceeded to call out both Presidents Putin and Trump, the two most powerful leaders of the world.
That this dim-witted, tone-deaf lost boy believes he has the right to lecture world leaders – or that anything he says now should be taken seriously – is beyond parody.
Not that I have any time for either Trump or Putin, both of them are monstrous human beings.
But Harry’s absurd intervention in world affairs isn’t just the folly of a foolish prince who decided to jot down some thoughts while idling away the hours at his sun-kissed multi-million dollar Montecito mansion.
Its cynical timing smacks to me of naked opportunism.
For he appears to have timed it to coincide – dare I say it, overshadow – his father King Charles’ and Queen Camilla’s historic visit to America next week.
Even as the King is about to attempt to repair the fragile Special Relationship between Britain and the US by meeting Trump in Washington, his idiotic son is aiming pot shots at the President.
Watching Prince Harry address the Kyiv Security Forum on a secret visit, I wasn’t sure whether to laugh or cry, writes Amanda Platell. He said in all solemnity: ‘I am not here as a politician’
Prince Harry on a visit to members of the Halo Trust in Ukraine during his secret visit. The timing smacks of naked opportunism
By doing so he could be undermining perhaps the monarchy’s most important role of all – the execution of soft power and diplomacy in the absence of politics.
But then Harry, whose main occupation seems either to be surfing or feeding his organic chooks, is too stupid to understand that.
Again, his conviction that his is a voice worth listening to about complex world affairs is a laugh out loud moment.
Yes, he was a soldier who did reach the unremarkable rank of Captain and who served in the British Army for ten years. Yes, he completed two tours of duty in Afghanistan and flew an Apache helicopter. Yes, he ‘cares’ about the world – and tells us so ad nauseam, as if none of the rest of us do.
He also insists that he will always be a member of the Royal Family, denies he is no longer a working royal and that he was ‘born to do activism work’.
Rather different to the late Queen’s statement of 2020 which declared: ‘The Sussexes will not use their HRH titles as they are no longer working members of the Royal Family.’
And, how brave of him to address Russia’s leader directly! ‘President Putin, no nation benefits from the continued loss of life we are witnessing,’ he thundered. And I am sure Putin is quaking in his boots.
Harry has badly misjudged the situation. Slag off the US President on the eve of his father’s historic visit? Does he have a single brain cell still working?
Oh, and he has stinging criticism for the US leadership too.
‘The United States has a singular role in this story. Not only because of its power,’ he said, adding that this is ‘a moment for American leadership to show it can honour its international treaty obligations – not out of charity, but of its enduring role in global security and strategic stability’.
It is pathetic. Worse than that, it looks like a desperate attempt to grab the headlines before his father’s visit to the States, and to play the statesman he believes is his right because of his gilded and privileged existence.
And the timing couldn’t be worse as relations between the US and Keir Starmer over the Iran war are at rock-bottom.
If Harry thought his intervention would garner support, he has badly misjudged the situation. Slag off the US President on the eve of his father’s historic visit? Does he have a single brain cell still working?
But then this soft lad, who got a B in art and a D in geography in his A-Levels, probably couldn’t even spell The Strait of Hormuz without a Google search, let alone pinpoint it on a map.
President Trump responded to Harry’s speech with his usual candour and unusual humour saying what we Brits think of his intervention that ‘Prince Harry does not speak for the UK’, adding: ‘I think I’m speaking for the UK more than Prince Harry.’
The tragedy is that, had Harry taken up his role as a working royal, and worked hard at it, he could have been taken seriously, as other members of the family are.
But he chose to skip the hard work and head off to the sun with his Little Miss Montecito to milk the family name. No wonder that when he thinks he can fly in from California to lecture world leaders, he is received with open derision and disdain.
