Prince Harry has 'La La Land security now' says Wharfe

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Harry and his wife Meghan Markle stunned royal spheres when they told US talk show host Oprah Winfrey how miserable they were when living behind Palace walls. The tell-all interview, which ITV aired in the UK earlier this month, went directly against the Palace mantra of “never complain, never explain”. It also ignored the unofficial royal protocol where members of the Firm avoid saying anything negative about one another in public, as the Sussexes put Prince Charles, Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, in the firing line.

When Meghan was asked how she felt about the Palace hearing her speak her “truth”, she said: “I don’t know how they could expect that after all of this time, we would still just be silent if there is an active role that the Firm is playing in perpetuating falsehoods about us.”

Harry claimed he would never have stepped back from his royal life if not for Meghan, but that, just like his wife, he felt he had been “silenced” for the duration of their marriage if not “longer”.

The Oprah interview demonstrated how the couple were now completely separate to the traditional royal way of life.

It was also a far cry from Harry’s previous revelations, where he admitted he had been advised to always keep his guard up due to his royal status.

Addressing the past images of him naked in Las Vegas during a private party, Harry said that while he may have let himself down, “there was a certain amount of privacy that one should expect”.

However, he pointed out: “Certain people remind me, ‘Remember who you are, so don’t always drop your guard’.”

He continued: “It was probably a classic example of me probably being too much Army, and not enough prince. It’s a simple case of that.”

The royal rebel went on to explain how he struggled to conform to the boundaries of Palace life.

Asked if he was more comfortable as Captain Wales, than Prince Harry, in the same interview, he replied: “Definitely. I’ve always been like that.

“My father’s always trying to remind me about who I am and stuff like that.

“But it’s very easy to forget about who I am when I am in the Army.

“Everyone’s wearing the same uniform and doing the same kind of thing.

“I get on well with the lads and I enjoy my job. It really is as simple as that.”

He then claimed there were three versions of himself: “One in the Army, one socially in my own private time, and then one with the family and stuff like that.

“So there is a switch and I flick it when necessary.”

Harry railed against royal life throughout his time as a working member of the Firm.

This interview, conducted in 2013 when he was carrying out his second tour of Afghanistan, showed Harry’s struggle to accept regimented Palace life.

When he left the Army two years later, the royal claimed that he felt he was at a “crossroads”.

He then threw himself into life as a full-time working royal — but, evidently felt confined in the role.

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In his bombshell tell-all, Oprah asked him: “Please explain how you, Prince Harry, raised in a Palace and a life of privilege — literally, a prince — how you were trapped.”

Harry replied: “Trapped within the system, like the rest of my family are.

“My father and my brother, they are trapped. They don’t get to leave. And I have huge compassion for that.”

He said even when he appeared to be enjoying the royal “job” in public, photographs of him do not tell the full story.

The Duke of Sussex continued: “That’s a part of the role. No matter who you are in the family, no matter what’s just happened, if the bikes roll up and the car rolls up, you’ve got to get in there.

“You wipe your tears away, shake off whatever you’re thinking about and you’ve got to be on your A-game.”

Some have questioned why Harry and Meghan have decided to reveal their side of their royal exit story after supposedly leaving the monarchy to pursue a more private life.

However, royal commentator Omid Scobie tweeted in defence of the couple, and claimed: “Privacy means freedom from *unauthorised* intrusion.

“It is the right to choose what you share with others and what you don’t. That’s it!”

Even last year, when he was tricked into a recorded phone call with two YouTubers, Harry admitted that “marrying a prince or princess is not all it’s made out to be”, and that he was “more normal than my family would like to believe”.

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