Harry by Chris Hutchins

Author:Chris Hutchins [Chris Hutchins]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781849545822
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Published: 2013-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

Not everyone took him at his word. His heartfelt statement fell on deaf ears, for example, when it came to the Daily Express’s acerbic columnist Carol Sarler. She wrote a piece describing him as a ‘horrible young man … a national disgrace who rarely lifted a finger unless it’s to feel up a cheap tart in a nightclub’. She described his gap year as a space between no work whatsoever at school and utter privilege at Sandhurst. As for his spell in Australia, she claimed he had spent it ‘slumped in front of the television waiting to behave badly at the next available rugby match’ and in Lesotho she said he was spending eight lavish weeks, during which ‘he has reluctantly agreed to spend a bit of the trip staring at poor people’. Harry’s new press guardian, Paddy Haverson, replied in detail pointing out that Sarler had, in effect, used her poison pen to put down a diligent, hard-working young man without having a clue as to what he was really like or what he was doing during his gap years. The Palace had had enough, just as the Daily Express would have done had anyone dared to describe one of their own in similar terms.

A leading London psychiatrist who had once treated his mother, says:

Forget the critics: I think the Lesotho experience turned young Henry’s [he insists on calling him by the name he was christened with] life around. For the first time in his life he saw desperate poverty, terrible suffering. I remember Diana telling me how she took him to visit the poor and the prostitutes in London in the hope that it would stir his conscience, but they were brief visits to places surrounded by wealth and luxury. He would not have been able to understand why those surrounding these unfortunates could not take care of them, plus he was obviously aware that there is a welfare state and no one in the UK need die of hunger or lack of any medical treatment. In Africa he saw people who had nothing and little chance of getting anything. Now that did wake his conscience and I think if Diana were alive today she would be greatly relieved by this turnaround in him.

His subsequent insistence on going to war and living under those dangerous and uncomfortable conditions in Afghanistan also speaks volumes about wanting to gain experience outside his upbringing. To be honest, I think he was bored with the way the royals live and what they expect the world to provide for them. He never consulted me, of course, but from a distance I can see nothing in him of the terrible paranoia poor Diana suffered. There were times when I thought she might end her life; Harry lives his to the full. Now she couldn’t do that and I suspect that she would have been unwell whoever she was married to. Prince Charles may have exasperated her, but take it from me he did not cause her underlying illness.

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