With his recent TV interview, Prince Harry once again caused trouble in his home country. His statements about the Queen in particular were viewed critically. What’s behind it.
“It was so nice to see her. She is in great shape. She always has a good sense of humor with me and I make sure she is protected and has the right people around,” Prince Harry said in the US TV about his brief meeting with Queen Elizabeth II last week. Words that outraged some Britons ended up being interpreted as a dig at family members.
Prince Harry and his statement about the Queen
Who does Harry mean when he insinuates that his grandmother is not surrounded by the right people? About Prince Charles, Prince William or Prince Andrew? According to British royal experts, it is none of the family members, but the Queen’s private secretary, Sir Edward Young.
In their interview with Oprah Winfrey, Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan shot sharply at the people responsible for “The Company”. “There’s the family and then there’s the people who run the institution. Those are two different things and it’s important to be able to tell them apart. Because the Queen has always been wonderful to me,” Meghan said at the time.
Private Secretary Sir Edward Young
Prince Harry was talking about a meeting with the Queen at the time, which was canceled at short notice. He had already suspected at the time that there was more behind it. “May the Queen not do as she pleases?” Oprah Winfrey then asked him. “No, when you’re the head of the company there are people around you who give you advice and what also made me very sad is that some of that advice was really bad,” the Duke of Sussex told her.
The private secretaries are the most important people in the royal family. For years, the Scottish Guards officer Sir Christopher Geidt was responsible for the Queen, who left her around five years ago. A loss that some blame for the chaos of recent years. So it is said to have been Young who instructed Prince Harry before the Megxit not to visit his grandmother.
As in the conversation with Oprah Winfrey, Harry made a clear distinction between the institution of monarchy and its queen. It is questionable, however, whether that will calm things down.
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