Hello Dear Readers,
Another day, another round of hypocrisy.
Earlier this year, we wrote a newsletter titled “An Open Letter to Prince Harry”, in which we begged whoever was left on his PR team to please, for the love of all things holy, see reason and stop issuing wishes to the press in the hopes of manifesting his deepest desires. If you missed it, do go and have a read below:
It seems, Dear Readers, that no one in the Sussex camp took heed.
The Daily Mirror, a paper Prince Harry has sued at least once, no less, landed a new exclusive from his camp this past Sunday. The gist: Harry is inviting his father to next year’s Invictus Games in the hopes of engineering a “public reunion,” because he’d apparently “love the King’s support.” If any of this rings a bell, that’s because we’ve heard it all before.
Almost exactly a year ago to the day, Harry’s people handed the very same “exclusive” to one Charlotte Griffiths, Editor-at-Large at The Mail on Sunday. Loyal subscribers will remember her as the journalist who blew the lid off how Harry’s team had contacted her out of the blue to leak information about his family as she helped plant a run of flattering stories about the couple in the press. Central to this campaign, was that Harry and Meghan Markle were attempting to rebuild their relationship with King Charles. We covered the whole saga below:
Griffiths’s original piece, had Harry planning to invite “the Royal family” (Prince William very much included) to the 2027 Invictus Games in Birmingham, with email invitations supposedly winging their way to Buckingham Palace and formal ones to follow closer to the date. The hope, as it was framed then, was to give the King ample notice to clear his diary for a grand reconciliation.
In her story from a year ago, she said:
“The Duke of Sussex will invite the Royal family to the 2027 Invictus Games in the hope that it will prove an ideal opportunity for reconciliation, it has been claimed.
Fast forward twelve months, and there’s been no RSVP that anyone’s aware of. Funnily enough, this new Mirror story has quietly dropped William from the guest list altogether and now mentions only King Charles. Which is probably for the best, frankly. Harry may be many things, but he isn’t so far removed from reality as to think his brother would come within a hundred feet of him unless it were for a state-sanctioned funeral.
So what does this new version actually say? Organisers are apparently hoping to get the King involved in either the opening or closing ceremony, plus a spot of mingling with competitors at various events.
“The Duke of Sussex is hoping his father, King Charles, will put their differences aside to join him on stage at next year’s Invictus Games event in Birmingham, signalling a dramatic rapprochement to their fractured relationship
It is understood that the organisers of the Invictus Games plan to invite the King to take part in either the opening or closing ceremony as well as visiting a range of sporting events to meet competitors. The prince’s plan could see the monarch join him at major events during the Games - or at one of the opening or closing ceremonies during the home event.
The King and Harry last spent time together in public at the late Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral in September 2022. Prior to that, they were seen enjoying celebrations for the Queen’s platinum jubilee in the summer of 2022.
Pardon our French, but what exactly are they smoking out there in Montecito? Enjoying celebrations during the Jubilee? Where? Was the before or after they packed themselves into a private jet and left festivities early in a huff back to Montecito?
The truth?