Just from reading what other people has posted about the book, Twat Harry comes across as someone with a lot of pent up resentment towards everyone ( I read in a news paper that he really hate journalists and the press) and this book is a breaking point for him.
He has never really processed the death of his mother in meaningful way.
Does he have any close friends at all?
Anyone from his military service, university time etc?
If anything from this book is true, and considering the ginger himself read it for the audio version, I am assuming he at the very least endorses it, then LMAO.
Harry doesn't come off as someone with a lot of pent of resentment, he comes off as a paranoid skizo who is convinced the entire world is out to get him, and is incredibly retarded to boot.
His hatred of the press is unreal. He refers to Jimmy Savile as the biggest threat to democracy, ever. The book illustrates power fantasies he had about two particular reporters being locked up and inprisioned. He is absolutely convinced that his mother is dead because some member of the press took a photo of Diana when she was in that tunnel, blinding her driver. TBFT, if this book really has even a grain of truth to it, then I can't particularly blame him. It makes it sound like the press has driven just about every girl he's ever wanted to start a relationship with, something which the girls themselves seem to affirm in statements offered that came way before this book was published.
Yes, Harry had 'friends' in the military. It seems like his flying instructors made a particular mark on him. However, reading between the lines, it's obvious that the instructors were babysitters.
Harry got away with bullshit that would've gotten other pilots sacked. Multiple times, his instructors had to encourage him ALA a cheerleader "Noooo Harry, don't let one mistake ruin the entire flight! Nooooo!"
He had a particular hatred for his CO in the middle east when he was AT pilot. Y'know, the dude whose job it was to ensure that Prince "They were chess peices" Harry wasn't committing war crimes. Harry seems convinced that the dude hated him, and was looking over camera feeds in order to find something to get Harry tried for warcrimes, instead of, you know, covering the crown and the service's ass in order to make sure the retard didn't bomb a bunch of children.
At this point in the story, I can tell you that Harry
had friends. Maybe not great ones, but he had them. And they were pretty loyal and honest.
His bodyguard was mentioned once or twice, and actually seems like a swell guy. At the very least, he was a competent bodyguard. Harry slapped the shit out of the dude when drunk, and the body guard just put harry to bed like a child. The bodyguard also told Harry no when Harry was doing stupid shit, and Harry listened. It seems to me like the bodyguard was one of those long term servants, the ones that are more like family than they are employees.
Unfortunately, I doubt Harry still has the bodyguard. Stuff like that would've been funded by Harry being a working royal.
Aside from that, it's obvious that Harry had a passion for the Invictus games. It was his thing. Losing soldiers to the crunchies affected him pretty deeply, and the Invictus games was his way to give back to the soldiers and the military, which he did love.
Unfortunately, his wife has more or less torn Harry away from everything that ever mattered to him. Family. Friends. The charities like Invictus that Harry was actually passionate about. Everything.
All Harry has left at this point is Megan.
Is this the story of some toff born with a silver spoon in his mouth that is fundamentally out of touch with the world, whining about frostbite on his pecker because he
went to the north pole, something most people can only dream about? Yes. But it's also the story of a deeply unhappy man who never got the therapy he needed from his mother dying, who has been born into an industrial complex that controlled
every aspect of his life, and I do mean
every aspect.
Harry had to seriously fight in order to go to war, and multiple times he was pulled back to Briton because the jihadis realized where he was and people got killed because the Taliban were trying to get to him. Harry went from commander to JTAC to Helicopter pilot because each position was safer than the last, against his will. But it was the only way for him to go back to war.
The sense I get from Harry is that he is so used to the Family controlling his every action and essentially babysitting him that he cannot conceive of life any other way. I think this is why everything is happening to him. Yes, Harry is in control of his own actions, but his entire life has primed him to be controlled. If Megan has stepped into the roll of his handler, which it is very obvious she has, I don't think Harry will ever be able to say no.
He's had essentially no agency for most of his life, something which was groomed into him from the day he was born.
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