Royal Family News: Prince Philip Thought Prince Harry Oprah Interview Was A Very Bad Idea

British royal family news reveals that Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh saw Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s interview with Oprah Winfrey as a bad, bad idea, and thought nothing good would come of it according to one of his biographers.

Gyles Brandreth told Daily Mail that Philip was not on board with his grandson’s decision to quit royal duties and move to the US but he had no choice but to accept it because it was up to Harry to make his own decisions.

Royal Family News – Prince Philip Did Not Agree With Harry And Meghan

Brandreth himself said that Harry and Meghan’s initial plan to divide their time between the UK and North America while mainly looking for “financial independence” was “naïve.”

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The Queen, Prince Charles and Prince William apparently told him it was an impossible dream and that Harry and Meghan would have to give up their official roles and not be able to use their HRH titles for work purposes. All the same, both the Queen and Harry were said to be distressed that it had come to that.

Brandreth added, “The Duke of Edinburgh was equally sorry ‘that it should come to this.’” No doubt it was an especially bitter pill to swallow as Harry had succeeded his grandfather as Captain General of the Royal Marines in 2017.

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He noted, “Philip had done the job for 64 years. Harry had barely managed 30 months. The Duke of Edinburgh was not pleased, nor did he believe that Harry and Meghan were doing the right thing either for the country or for themselves.”

And yet wise Philip was sympathetic to Harry’s distrust of the media and supportive of his desire to, “do his own thing in his own way. He said to me: ‘People have got to lead their lives as they think best.’”

“I know from someone close to him that he thought Meghan and Harry’s interview with Oprah Winfrey was ‘madness’ and ‘no good would come of it’. I was not surprised because that is exactly how he described to me the personal TV interviews given by Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, back in the 1990s.”

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The Sussexes declined to pause the interview last month despite Philip being ill in the hospital. Of this Brandreth said, “The fact that the Meghan and Harry interview was aired while Philip was in hospital did not trouble him. What did worry him was the couple’s preoccupation with their own problems and their willingness to talk about them in public.”

“Give TV interviews by all mean he said but don’t talk about yourself.”

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