Prince Harry could be “asking for trouble” by making certain comments about his actions, a royal expert has said. The Duke of Sussex, 41, enjoyed a successful four-day trip to the UK earlier this month, followed by a day in Ukraine.
While Harry reunited with his father, King Charles, 76, for the first time in over a year, many royal fans were sceptical about the meeting and whether the duke would go on to reveal private conversations shared. Although this has not happened so far, Harry did make other comments about his life that one royal expert believes could get him in trouble.
When speaking to The Guardian in Kyiv, Ukraine, Harry defended his choice to write a tell-all memoir, Spare, which was released in 2023.
He made it clear that he has no regrets about the memoir, which he described as being a necessary “correction” to things that had been wrongly said about him publicly.
The Duke of Sussex also said he had a clear conscience over his decisions – a comment that royal expert and former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond believes may not be music to the ears of the Palace.
As reported by GB News, she said: “His first comment was that his dad was ‘great’. And I don’t think the Palace would have any problem with that. But to have been drawn into commenting on whether he had any regrets about his book was naive.
“He just can’t seem to stop himself from doubling down on his grievances. To be tempted into asserting that his conscience was clear about all that he had said in his book, and that there ‘cannot be reconciliation before you have truth’, was just asking for trouble.”
Bond then said that such a comment “may well have set alarm bells ringing at the Palace”.
Harry, 41, also said that he wants the focus to be on his dad King Charles within the coming year, but did not reveal what the current state of their relationship now is.
This comment comes just months after Harry, who quit royal life in 2020, told the BBC in May that his father wouldn’t speak to him as a result of the fact that the duke had tried to appeal his downgraded taxpayer-funded UK security rights.
It is not known when Harry and his father will next meet.
