Prince Harry messes it up again just a few hours before the Coronation
The latest accusations by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, against King Charles, and his brother, the Prince of Wales, add fuel to the fire of an increasingly tense coronation.
There has never been so much expectation for a Coronation that, if we pay attention to the polls, finds so little support among the citizens. Around half of Britons have said that the proclamation of King Charles III matters little to them, but far fewer can avoid the controversies surrounding his relationship with his youngest son, Prince Harry. The Duke of Sussex does not shut up.
If it is not for monarchical sentiment, the sheer morbidity of seeing Prince Harry close, very close, to his father and his brother will sit many Britons in front of the television to watch the coronation. The truth is that the tension grows as the countdown to C-Day progresses. King Charles and Prince William are nervous: Harry continues to 'warm up' the atmosphere.
Indeed, there is a new reason why neither King Charles III nor Prince William wants to meet the Duke of Sussex face to face. It has to do with the recent visit to London by Henry of England to testify in the trial he is holding against various British newspapers, which he sued in 2019 for illegal information gathering. His statements before the judge have alarmed both the monarch and the Prince of Wales.
Harry's new accusations against King Charles
Attention, because the revelations that Prince Harry has sustained in court come to reinforce the greater cause that the Duke of Sussex has been maintaining since he escaped to the United States. This is: that Buckingham Palace maintains a toxic relationship with the British tabloids. A power and influence struggle that has ended up dragging certain members of the royal house through the mud.
We are well aware of Prince Harry's accusations: they speak of influence peddling, pacts, and setups to favor different members of the Royal House (not him, of course), among Buckingham Palace officials and the tabloids owned by Robert Murdoch, the magnate. of the British press which inspired the famous Succession series.
It all started with the furious attacks of these headlines on Meghan Markle, with false stories or half-truths supported by "sources close to Buckingham Palace" and other anonymous attributions of the sort. It started like this, but the king himself ended up splashing his heir, the Prince of Wales, whose reputation was impeccable to date. Given the situation, it has been ruled out that Prince William wants to have any kind of meeting with his brother.
This is what Prince Harry has revealed in his statement before the London courts. The first shocking confession has to do with his father, King Charles. The Duke of Sussex claims that he asked, if not ordered, him to back off his lawsuits against the press (actually against Murdoch to make it easier for both he and Queen Camilla to increase their acceptance and popularity with the British).
The most revelation has to do, surprisingly, with his brother Guillermo de él. Prince Harry maintains that the Prince of Wales reached an agreement with Robert Murdoch's lawyers to cease investigating the hacks that led to the famous lawsuit. It was not a merely mere verbal agreement: they would have paid him a substantial amount of money.
Harry maintains that Elizabeth II was aware of everything
Neither Buckingham Palace, where the office of King Charles III resides, nor Kensington Palace, from where the agenda and communications of the Princes of Wales are kept, have wanted to confirm or deny the accusation of Prince Harry, who has also revealed that his late grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, was aware of all these goings-on to hide the monarchy's pacts with the press. News Group Newspapers (NGN), Murdoch's company, they deny everything.
The Duke of Sussex has sued Robert Murdoch for hacking into his phone messages and hiring several private detectives to get private information about his life and his relationship with Meghan Markle. Murdoch, for his part, argues that this hack was the initiative of the writing of 'News of the World', a newspaper that has already disappeared precisely.
Let's not forget that, in addition to these court proceedings in London, Prince Harry could face another trial in the United States that could mean the withdrawal of his residence. Before it has to be shown that he lied in the immigration declaration that he made upon his arrival in the US. There he would have assured me not to take drugs. In his memories, however, he confesses that he was a more or less regular user.
Clearly, Carlos III wants his youngest son to give up carrying out a judicial process that does not stop upsetting him. However, deep down he must understand the Duke of Sussex very well since he has had the same feelings against the press. In 2005, at the Klosters ski resort, he was unaware that he had a microphone nearby and was heard saying to reporters: "Damn people. I hate these people."
