It's not just the royal family who are annoyed by Prince Harry's complaints.
His old friends are also losing patience.
In
The Mirror
, Wednesday January 31, Edward Charles Featherstone, – a pseudonym chosen by a courageous “former polo buddy” – maintains that the Duke of Sussex has “nothing to do with the man [he] met " A few years ago.
To the British tabloid, he said he found his memoirs “disappointing” which described him as “a victim”: “Which he is far from being,” says this ex-friend.
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In January 2023, in the first part of his memoir
Spare
(
The Substitute
, in French), Prince Harry did not spare the Windsor clan.
He not only recalled a violent altercation with his brother William, but also claimed to have taken cocaine from the age of 17 or even to have opposed the remarriage of his father Charles, now king, with Camilla Parker-Bowles, his “dangerous” and “evil” mother-in-law.
“Take back control”
These revelations were not to the taste of “Edward Charles Featherstone”, his former gambling friend. Who also sent a virulent letter to the Duke of Sussex in which he visibly does not mince his words and urges him to “take back control”.
“I simply tell him to pull himself together, that he is not a victim, that he participated in a noble cause as the torchbearer of the Invictus Games [
a sporting competition dedicated to veterans and war wounded, created by Harry in 2014, Editor's note
], and that what he is doing now and what he has done to his family is, in my opinion, inappropriate,” he confides to the
Mirror
.
If he has not disclosed the contents of his letter, “Edward Charles Featherstone” assures that he will make it public one day or another.
“It remains to be seen whether I will do it quietly, on the H2Z site or the Rude Chronicles site, or if I will do it a little more obviously and take a page in the
LA Times
.
But at some point I will probably publish this letter.”
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Despite the explosive revelations in his autobiography, Prince Harry was keen to point out that he never intended to “hurt” his family.
“I love my father, I love my brother, I love my family and I always will.
Nothing I wrote in this book was done with the intention of hurting or harming them,” he insisted in an interview with the British channel ITV, assuring that he hoped for a “reconciliation.” on condition of establishing “responsibilities”, in particular on his departure with his wife Meghan Markle for California in 2020. Four years have passed since this episode baptized the “Megxit” by the English press and the understanding between the Sussexes and the royal family still does not seem to be in good shape.