Prince Harry will be back in court this week.
The beleaguered royal seems to spend more time fighting legal battles these days than Donald Trump.
The only difference being that unlike Trump, whose poll numbers soar ever higher with each appearance in front of judges, Harry’s popularity craters ever deeper the more he moans, sues and plays the oppressed victim.
This time, he’ll be waging a three-day fight in London’s High Court to argue he should be granted automatic police protection whenever he is in the UK, a privilege that was removed by the British government Home Office after he and Meghan flounced off to California in January 2020.
His demand perfectly personifies what the once-beloved Prince has become since quitting Britain and the royal family nearly four years ago: a petulant, entitled, hypocritical little brat who wants to have his regal cake and eat it too.
He thinks he and Meghan should be allowed to absolve themselves from any official royal duties but still be allowed the same benefits that come with being a working member of the royal family, like personal protection from the elite highly trained cops who take care of the royals.
Harry also thinks they should keep such privileges despite relentlessly trashing the royals and the monarchy on every available media platform they can persuade to pay the treacherous little ratbags large pieces of silver to do so.
As we’ve been reminded in the past week, their repellent garbage-flinging included the pair telling Oprah Winfrey that family members had been racist about the potential skin color of their baby son Archie.
And who were the supposedly racist royals that we’re supposed to believe expressed “concern” the baby might be too dark?
Thanks to the Sussexes’ fork-tongued lickspittle author pal Omid Scobie, and an “accidental” draft of his new book Endgame being published in the Netherlands containing the names, we now know it was King Charles and Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales.
My own firm belief is that neither Charles nor Kate ever made any racist comments about baby Archie, and that this is a sickening slur on the characters of two people who’ve spent their lives in public service advocating for racial equality and justice.
Just look at how the initial claims have unraveled since the Oprah interview first aired.
They weren’t repeated in Harry and Meghan’s six-part Netflix documentary series, in Meghan’s 12-part Spotify podcast series, or in Harry’s autobiography, Spare.
It was as if the racist comments had never happened.
Finally, in January this year, Harry preposterously tried to pretend that Meghan had never said the Royals were racist but instead meant they were merely guilty of “unconscious bias,” and he then attacked the press for falsely saying it was racism which was as pathetically disingenuous as most of his attacks on the press.
But why did it take him nearly two years to clarify this?
And why did he let Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II both die without hearing this clarification, having endured the appalling stigma of hearing their family branded racist by their own grandson and his wife?
Oh, and why did he imagine the world would simply forget what we all heard with our own ears on Oprah?
Of course, we all know the answers: It suited Harry and Meghan to cynically play the race card to justify their own shocking behavior, and to let their ugly smear poison the royal family’s reputation for two years, and to never name the alleged racists because the moment the world knew it was Charles and Kate they were accusing, we’d all know the claims were obviously ludicrous.
So, my response to Harry now demanding royal protection when he and his family come to the UK is the same one Elon Musk gave last week to advertisers who’ve quit X (formerly Twitter), which begins in “Go” and ends in “yourself.”
Not least because defending the case has already cost the British taxpayer over $500,000 in legal costs.
But I think it’s time for further punitive action against a couple who profess to hate the monarchy but love to trade off their royal titles to enrich themselves.
British politician Bob Seely is proposing a new amendment to a 1971 Act of Parliament which will advise the ancient advisory Privy Counsel to formally strip the Duke and Duchess of Sussex of all their royal titles.
As he says: “If someone doesn’t want to be Royal, that is a decision we respect – but they should not keep the titles and privileges if they trash an institution that plays an important part in our nation’s life. I believe it is time they dropped their titles – or were made to – and lived by their own talents, if they have any to speak of.”
Seely added: “The use of race to smear the royal family is the most poisonously insidious, guaranteed to leave a whiff of stigma and impossible to prove when false. It is the catch-all slur of the modern era.”
Exactly.
Harry and Meghan made their race-baiting bed, so now they can lie in it.