That's my biggest take-away from Harry's interviews and book over the last few years: that he confirmed pretty much everything that i always thought were just media-exaggerations
And now he apparently alludes that because the media make him look a certain way, people will threaten him
""Any one of the thousands of people that I met or was introduced to on any given day could easily have said: 'You know what, you're an idiot. I've read all the stories about you and now I hate you and am going to stab you'," said Prince Harry, in a witness statement for a court case that once again threatens to rewrite what we know about the Royal Family."
in other words, he links media and terrorism.
If that is his truth he will never find peace.
Exactly. I don't think he will ever find peace either.
Has it occurred to him that many of the things he revealed in his book, or his interviews, is just as capable of provoking such a response, however unlikely such a response would be? Is he that paranoid, does he not understand that people have more important things in life to deal with than what they think of him? Like paying the bills, living with strikes and such? That's the real world, and the most likely response is that he's just a spoiled, petulant and rather unpleasant person who should just give us all a break and shut up. Most people would just be grateful if he kept a low profile and quietly went away to get on with his life; they don't want to hear about his perceived woes when they're trying to work out how to pay the electricity bill or find the money for the mortgage, and possibly dealing with much worse issues such as homelessness, poverty, abuse, addiction. People who are
real victims. The rest of the RF more than understand all of this in these difficult times.
Moreover, the courts are going to want to deal with fact rather than all this overblown emotion; I wonder if Harry is so determined to be heard that he hasn't really thought about (or cares) about whether it all stacks up correctly and the possible consequences especially if it doesn't go his way in Court. One can speculate on the possible reasons for this lack of foresight, the contradictions, the inconsistencies.
I think he's tying himself up in knots to be honest, and factual inconsistencies have already been brought up by one judge. The RF must be utterly mortified by what he is trying to do to them but mostly by what he is doing to himself. I utterly admire them for the way they are going about business as usual and keeping smiling, especially William and Kate.
Harry has zero chance of ever finding peace unless he gives up his crusade against the press and the RF and quietly goes off and lives his life in California. If he'd done the latter in the first place many more people would have accepted it and wished him well, but all he's done is drag up the past over and over again; that's where he's living, in the past, whatever his wife says about moving on, although perhaps tellingly her recent statement about this only mentions her.
It's obvious to anyone that his obsession with the past is a constant presence in his life, despite the California sunshine, the luxurious mansion, the wife and children. The fortune he must have spent on legal fees and will continue to spend, could have gone a long way to funding the new and expensive lifestyle. Keeping a low profile, out of the courts, out of the media, would have been the sensible way forward, and finding a way to earn money in a positive and constructive way.
And therein lies the problem; because he believes he has to continue to trade on his royal connections to make money, to fight his crusade and fund his lifestyle, in ways such as trashing his family and selling secrets to the highest bidder in books and interviews, unfortunately this isn't going to stop. He'll keep talking and talking, long after everyone has had enough and stopped listening to him. As he gets older he'll just be seen as a whining bore and a joke, a person who sees himself as a perpetual victim and can't see the wood for the trees - that in real terms he's one of the more fortunate people on the planet.
To sum it all up, he's dug an enormous hole from which it will now be very difficult to extricate himself.
All MOO - mods feel free to amend as you see fit.
