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Charlotte Griffiths’ Pens Devastating Takedown of Prince Harry's Cruel Idiocy

The prince demands compassion from others. The people he dragged through the courts got none of it.

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Tom Sykes
Jul 08, 2026
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There is a paradox at the heart of Prince Harry’s public life, and Charlotte Griffiths’ tell-all account of their friendship, just published by the Daily Mail, exposes it more unsparingly than anything the High Court managed in eleven weeks of trial.

It is that Harry has constructed an entire post-royal identity around the demand for compassion. His memoir, his Netflix series, his Oprah confessional, his mental health advocacy: all assert that he is a wounded human being whose pain must be acknowledged and whose feelings must be handled with care.

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