{"id":2025372,"date":"2025-09-16T05:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T05:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2025372"},"modified":"2025-09-16T05:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T05:02:08","slug":"prince-harry-says-his-conscience-is-clear-over-royal-revelations-but-it-really-shouldnt-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/prince-harry-says-his-conscience-is-clear-over-royal-revelations-but-it-really-shouldnt-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry says his \u2018conscience is clear\u2019 over royal revelations\u2026 but it really shouldn\u2019t be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"main\">\n<div class=\"hydrate-root sc-10wlkbs-0\" data-component=\"Newsletter\" data-loading=\"lazy\" data-theme-name=\"base\">\n<aside class=\"sc-y4bm30-0 jwWhkK newsletter-component sc-1ge0fwe-0\" data-newsletter-key=\"receiveOpinionWeekly\">\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-2 kcLSBk\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-1 inRDZn\">\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-3\">\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-4 hfveGa\">\n<p><h3 class=\"sc-y4bm30-5 sc-y4bm30-6 fvoxRM dRzeRr\">The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week &#8211; from controversial columns to expert analysis<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"sc-y4bm30-5 sc-y4bm30-8 fvoxRM knvhy\">Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"sc-y4bm30-5 sc-y4bm30-7 fvoxRM kbCQAZ\">Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><svg class=\"sc-eaj12q-0 hKcUSR sc-culv3z-0 eifaJK sc-1ix0cah-0 PYnPb sc-y4bm30-10 fUEDPX\"><use href=\"#600f53465147d717\"\/><\/svg><\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-2 kcLSBk sc-y4bm30-9 iQYNfz\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/static-assets\/images\/newsletters\/voices1_1.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Independent Voices\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"big-letter\">W<\/span>e can all agree that it\u2019s nice that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/prince-harry-king-charles-meeting-uk-meghan-b2824381.html\" rel=\"follow\">Prince Harry is talking to his dad again<\/a>. The King and his youngest son enjoyed tea together last Wednesday at Clarence House, a thawing of relations that led a happy Harry to tell the BBC that there is \u201cno point fighting any more \u2013 life is precious\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Whatever the optics of finding yourself estranged from your father for 19 months as he undergoes weekly cancer treatments, this, at the very least, is a heart-warming story of a lad and his dad making up at a time when nobody in this country seems particularly interested in getting along.<\/p>\n<p>So why go and spoil it? Clearly in a good mood, Harry went and gave an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/prince-harry-spare-book-william-b2826512.html\">interview to <em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/prince-harry-spare-book-william-b2826512.html\"\/> in which he absolved himself of any wrongdoing in the family fallout. \u201cI don\u2019t believe that I aired my dirty laundry in public \u2026 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/bulletin\/lifestyle\/prince-harry-william-spare-king-charles-b2826498.html\" rel=\"follow\">My conscience is clear,<\/a>\u201d he said of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/prince-harry-spare-book-william-b2826512.html\" rel=\"follow\"><em>Spare<\/em>, the tell-all memoir<\/a> that most sensible people agree drove a pretty sizeable wedge between father and son.<\/p>\n<p>Your conscience is clear? It shouldn&#8217;t be. Having had a daughter myself a year ago, I couldn\u2019t help but think of all the moments the King must have missed with his grandchildren: tottering first steps, first words, food being flung laughingly across a California kitchen, storytime with grandad. Lilibet, Harry\u2019s youngest, is now four. You don\u2019t get those moments back.<\/p>\n<p>I find it so desperately sad that Harry appears to have lost sight of what passes for a fresh start in the first place. Perhaps he feels that all that has transpired was for the best. You wouldn\u2019t bet against it. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that [speaking out] annoys some people and it goes against the narrative,\u201d Harry said this week. \u201cThe book? It was a series of corrections to stories already out there. One point of view had been put out and it needed to be corrected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To which you say, well, up to a very narrow point. If we reduce family life to a series of competing views, what room is there for anything other than discord? In the bunfight to be right, it\u2019s the little acts of love that go missing.<\/p>\n<p>The irony, as ever, is that Harry is, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/prince-harry-princess-diana-award-uk-visit-b2824595.html\">like his mother<\/a>, prodigiously gifted at doing good. <\/p>\n<p>In the last week, he has been charming wounded troops in Ukraine on a surprise visit, cheering sick children at a London hospital, and laying a wreath on the tombstone of his beloved grandmother, Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps he has had time recently to reflect. The late Queen\u2019s unofficial motto was \u201cnever complain, never explain\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>If life gives you castles and power and unimaginable wealth, it is perhaps best to focus on deeds, not words. <\/p>\n<p>Harry has tried to explain himself at length, in podcasts, in print. It so often sounds an awful lot like complaining to me. <\/p>\n<p>Life is precious. It\u2019s also short. As the Prince himself says, over the coming year \u201cthe focus really has to be on my dad\u201d. Saying it is a first step. The next, frankly, is showing it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.independent.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week &#8211; from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter We can all agree that it\u2019s nice that Prince Harry is talking to his dad again. 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