Spiegel: “renegade” and “self-destructive” Prince Harry

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Spiegel attempts an in-depth analysis of the turn Prince Harry’s life has taken in recent years

Spiegel magazine dedicates the issue released today Saturday to the interior of the British royal house. Which is of course not all that much worse after the revelations of the unsullied sheep of the Windsors, Prince Harry, whom the columnists called “renegade” and “self-destructive.”In an unprecedented media campaign, Prince Harry is lashing out at the House of Windsor,” the magazine sums up. “His attacks have hit the British royal family at a difficult time. The country is deeply divided by the financial crisis and the royal family is disintegrating in front of the eyes of the whole world,” they point out.

In search of the “truth” about the prince

In the multi-page tribute with many historical facts, photos in good and bad moments from the childhood of the two brothers, their marriages and snapshots with Elizabeth, the magazine attempts a psychological anatomy of the prince’s personality. “Harry, in hindsight, is a symbol of family failure from the first moment of his life. His parents’ marriage probably ended with his birth. His father Charles returned to his mistress Camilla, whom he had already fallen in love with years before his marriage to Diana… Harry’s public appearances as a teenager were interesting mainly when they were embarrassing, and they always were. Leaving the royal family, Harry managed to become more famous than the heir to the throne, his brother William… The title of his autobiography (s.s. Spare – spare) suggests that Harry is struggling with the fact that he has to give in to relationship with his brother for the rest of his life… In any case, anyone who wants to analyze Harry’s story now has infinite material at his disposal, which he provided himself. At the same time, it takes distance and knowledge of other sources to find what Harry calls ‘truth’, a truth in which other perspectives have a place.”

But also personality, family origins, profession and Megan’s presence they pass through the magnifying glass of columnists as an opportunity to revive the throne. “For an anachronistic institution whose survival depends on its appeal to the masses, Harry and Meghan were a huge promise. But in the euphoria, some overlooked the fact that Harry was no longer willing to make himself available of the royal family with the emotional price he had already paid long ago.”

DW – Irini Anastasopoulou

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