Even when Prince Harry is seemingly doing a good thing, critics will often spin it around into something foul. It’s the norm at this point, considering how he and his wife have soiled their reputation time after time. However, he carelessly slipped a comment while speaking to bereaved parents, whose children had ended their lives over social media. While delivering an empathetic speech, he subtly insulted the judge of his own lawsuit, comparing the grieving parents’ heartbroken experience to his own.
In a video shared by BBC, Prince Harry spoke of the parents feeling overwhelming emotion while sitting in court, pointing out how media companies are taking advantage of their children. “The lies that they are stating, is devaluing life, is devaluing your children’s lives, if that brings stuff up for you, it is totally normal,” he says, tearing up from his own words.
Then, the Prince makes an odd statement; it should have come off as encouragement, until you realize he was trying to compare the parents of dead children to himself and his lawsuit: “Do not feel ashamed, do not feel concerned. Even if the judge – as I heard – turned round and asked you not to show emotion.”
The True Meaning Behind Prince Harry’s Speech to Parents Revealed
A Redditor posting to r/SaintMeghanMarkle explains things clearly, pointing out how “Harry is insulting Judge Nicklin,” the person working on the ex-royal’s court case. “What Judge Nicklin actually told Harry was that he didn’t need to engage in emotional confrontation with the defense attorney, because White’s role was simply to do his job as defense counsel at the trial,” Anthony White being the assigned lawyer.
On top of that, the shrewd Redditor shines a light on Prince Harry’s comments about the “lies,” which they claim refer to Harry “complaining because White’s line dismissed part of his narrative that the media did harm through illegal methods, which for Harry is central to his claim of invasion of privacy and the emotional impact he says he suffered.”
The Reddit user goes on to cover other aspects of the Prince’s speech in correlation to his court case, but the truth is pretty clear: Harry was allegedly attempting to make the parents’ situation about himself. One commenter exclaimed, “The most appalling part is that he’s comparing his ridiculous tantrum lawsuit to the experiences of parents whose kids have committed suicide and their kids’ experiences.”
Another commenter used the analogy of Prince Harry speaking to someone whose family members died in a fire. They are devastated about what happened, to which he would claim to understand because he once fell off a horse, and that really hurt too. Of course, this is just a hypothetical comparison, but the fact of the matter is that Prince Harry is taking advantage of the parents of lost children to fuel his lawsuit.
Subtly throwing shade at Judge Nicklin is one thing, but “equating grieving parents’ experiences with his own self-inflicted courtroom drama,” as one commenter puts it, is “incredibly selfish” and shameless.
