It took less than 48 hours for the British media to drag Prince Harry into his father and sister-in-law’s medical issues. Now that the shock has worn off, I’m really not concerned about King Charles or his giant prostate. All of the medical professionals have said that Charles’s prostate issue is very common, very manageable and that he’ll be back to work in two to three weeks. Meaning, it’s not a “constitutional issue,” and Charles was actually wise to do a full public disclosure about it. There is no reason why Charles or the palace would have to consult or inform the king’s California-dwelling son. And yet, that’s the big headline in the Telegraph: how did Prince Harry learn of his father’s enlarged prostate?? Will Harry devote a chapter in Spare Volume 2 to his dad’s prostate? Why won’t Archewell confirm or deny their knowledge of a king’s prostate??
The Duke of Sussex may not have found out about the King’s prostate diagnosis before the news was made public, the Telegraph understands. Buckingham Palace did make efforts to inform all senior members of the Royal family and that included relaying a message to Prince Harry.
However, the public announcement was made at 3.25pm UK time, which is 7.25am in California, and it is thought the Duke may have seen the news alerts before any private message. Both the palace and a spokesman for the Sussexes declined to comment.
Each side is keen not to stir up further tensions, aware that any kind of declaration could plunge relations to a new low.
But the development was reminiscent of the breakdown in communications when Elizabeth II died in September 2022. As first revealed by the Telegraph, the Duke found out via a news alert, as he was mid-air en route to Scotland when the public announcement was made.
LOL, no one died in this situation and again, a relatively routine prostate procedure – which hasn’t even happened yet! – is not a constitutional issue. It sounds like Buckingham Palace briefed the Telegraph and included a sly little reference to how they tried to get in touch with Harry. Perhaps they sent him an email (which would actually be fine). But that’s not all! One royal expert is begging Harry to get in contact with his father:
Soon after the announcement of Kate’s hospitalisation, Buckingham Palace revealed King Charles, 75, will undergo a corrective procedure for an enlarged prostate next week. Now royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams has told The Sun that the wayward Duke, 39, should “approach” Charles and Kate under the circumstances.
He said: “There is a very deep rift in the royal family. As far as anyone is aware, Harry and William aren’t speaking. It’s very unfortunate this has happened. Not only the King with an enlarged prostate but Catherine has also had an operation of some magnitude. Given the sensitivities involved, it is hoped some approach would be made by Harry but the best thing, and the only thing, would be a quiet or private approach. So basically we don’t hear.”
Fitzwilliams added: “I would have thought Harry will approach his father, brother and also Catherine.”
In Spare, Harry wrote about texting his brother when their grandmother died and William blanking him and refusing to allow Harry to catch a ride on the royal plane. So.. if Harry texted his brother again, I kind of doubt William would respond anyway. Now, maybe Harry has contacted his father. We’ll only hear about it when Charles leaks it.
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So BP can leak it to the press, who are desperate for access. These people aren’t slick and all of this is coming off desperate and slightly manipulative. The press don’t want to admit they messed up and are scared of the future.
Manipulative and clumsy as hell because that snippet just implied that Charles’s prostate is of the same magnitude as the life (and death) of the queen. And if that doesn’t reflect the over importance society places on the dick and balls package, I don’t know what does.
On a more humorous note, I’m going to spend all day imagining the media’s fever fantasy phone call in which someone called Harry to say (in a posh British accent) “Hello, Harry? I don’t want to disturb you but I’m calling with some news about His Majesty’s balls. Well, actually, his balls are fine but his prostate is rather enlarged. Yes. Balls normal. Prostate HUGE. That’s all. Enjoy your week-END.”
(Week-END is pronounced like the Dowager Countess on Downton Abbey says it, of course).
Charkes is the king, the great chosen one, head of church, of course he has a giant prostate, bigger than yours!!
The bigger the prostate the closer to god.
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I needed the laughs that this thread is providing right now! 😭
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Harry is the one in the family with the decency. I’m sure he would make a call if he deems it necessary. I bet he heard about it like the rest of the world because his family is rotten.
In Doria Ragland I trust. She said Harry has perfect manners. Charles is still his father, so I guess Harry would make an effort to call him up. If the call gets through the millions of men in grey, that is another issue.
As for Catherine, like the acquaintance she has become and as a former work colleague, I would expect Harry to send her a card, if much. A long time has passed since they shared the same office. No noblesse oblige with her.
You’re very hopeful. I don’t believe Harry has done anything not after the start of this week.
Lika Harry, I tend towards classy 🙂
They really do not deserve much though.
I think Harry is classy to his and his family’s detriment. Being the better person hasn’t worked for him in the past and has only got his wife and children attacked.
Check out how happy and flirty Kate was in the pictures with Harry back in the day. She misses the old days terribly…I really think she expected him to remain a bachelor and she’d retain her place between the two brothers in public.
I absolutely agree .
Harry was actually kind to Kate and she wanted the two brothers to be there always .
When Harry fell in love with Meghan she was filled with jealousy and it had eaten away at her .
She knows she never had that sort of love from William,
That’s why she hates Meghan so much and she knows she can never compete with her .
She could have made friends with her but she bullied her out .
She never thought Harry would go with her .
Now she is stuck with a role she is not capable of doing with a husband who does not care about her .
She is paying for it all now .
@Cassie I agree. I have always believed that it took Meghan about 30 seconds after meeting them to realize that Willnot & Cannot are not a happy couple. Kitty would have resented the hell out of Meghan’s total love relationship with Harry, and if Meghan extended any empathy to Kate, which is in her nature, that would have really pissed off Kate. A non-white American commoner daring to have sympathy for her? The presumption!!!!!
Add to that, I have no doubt Willy wanted Meghan. I have no doubt Willy would feel entitled to his brother’s girl. (It’s that weird Brit thing about laying down your wife for your King). I bet Willy hit on Meghan, and she smacked him down hard, American style, and he will never forgive that lack of recognition by Meghan of his superiority and entitled status. He knows she will never regard him as entitled.
She really is an existential threat to them.
I doubt harry sends cards to kate.
How can you simultaneously say given the sensitivity of the situation the best thing would be a private approach, and then follow it up by saying, I would have thought he would have reached out to them. If he did what you said you would not know, that’s the point. Why do they feel like they have to know every private event that goes on if someone’s family? Is there anything they feel like they shouldn’t get a statement about? He’s a private citizen he does not have to inform you of anything he does. When are you getting that through your skull? I personally think that they don’t deserve his attention or care or well wishes since it’s never reciprocated, but I’m not him and it’s not my family.
Because they’re complete and total idiots. Truly, that’s the reason. They step on their own rakes multiple times each day.
Dying @Lorelei. Love your last sentence. It also helps explain RR nonsense. Multiple concussions from stepping on their own rakes. I’m going to use that phrase in my personal life with dumb a@@es. Thank you.
I don’t know how to do it. But a meme with a stick person (or any face of an RR) stepping on a rake needs to be made.
‘wayward’. OK then. I know who’s ‘wayward’ in that family.
H&M offered to be part-time working royals which would have resolved issues such as this! Wayward was the choice of those firstborns who had the arrogance to misperceive their need of Harry. They chose. Live with it
What utter nonsense from this royal reporter just to drum up clicks. He basically says it should be a private approach so no one hears about it but acts scoldingly to PH like he knows that nothing has happened. Maybe no one cares enough about you to tell YOU he’s sent his dad a text sir. I can’t believe ppl in this country don’t get tired of all this BS drivel.
They’re all dreadful, but Fitzwilliams is one of my least favorite of the RR assholes. Ever since he was caught giving his “review” of H&M’s Oprah interview before it aired and then tried to claim that such a thing was a common practice. Why anyone is still giving his lying ass a platform when he was credibly outed as a liar is beyond me.
A biographer for Charles wrote about Harry’s daughter and implied the queen wasn’t happy, with no pushback from the BRF.
Why would you contact a horrible father like that?
That author is now making the rounds to British TV stations saying he didn’t mean that, the Queen loved that Lili was named after her.
Huh? 🤔 So we can just ignore all the tantrums and rage fits from earlier in the week? Okay, I’ll pretend that none of that happened and I’m sure H&M will too. Smh.😏
Wonder if the author got a letter from a solicitor. I hope so.
Harry and his wife and especially his 2 year old daughter was under attack last week and this one . Cannot remember any one in that cult offering Harry support. Plus when Meghan miscarried, the palace said it was a private family matter and they won’t be commenting. They should keep the same energy this time.Kate is William wife not Harry, therefore her well-being is not Harry problem. I mean if Kate did not know Meghan well enough to talk about her hormones, how can Harry and Meghan possibly inquire about her stomach?
Excellent point, Over It!
Exactly @Over It! 💯 🎯 Truth, no lies!
Dear Leader, help us, the Tabloids are looking for a way to blame Harry and Meghan for Chucky’s enlarged prostate and Unable’s mysterious surgery.
I’m so glad Meghan is out of that hell hole.
I’m glad too. That family and press over there have lost the plot and are trying to fix a mess they helped create. Everyday those stunt queens in England seems to become more desperate.
Let me guess, the BP will say that Chuck’s netherpart condition is stress-related.
I just hope Harry and Meghan have a relaxing celebratory evening this evening as Harry receives his award. With #ThatFamily, their future seems to be one crisis for them after another. Without drama, what is the purpose in that Monarchy?
Spare 2: the prostrate years
Prostate. Prostrate means lying face down on the ground. Which is what Chuck will be as he has his prostate remodeled.
Sandy8, I like the ‘prostrate years’. I can hear the yell for the fainting couches now.
The press is desperate to hear anything about Harry right now. Plus, Harry’s not a senior royal anymore so why would the Palace be attempting to contact him. I think the Telegraph is making that up that story. As for Richard Fitzwilliams he can’t have it both ways. If Harry was to contact the Palace, it would be leaked to the press. So my guess is he hasn’t called any of them and he doesn’t have to.
Harry is 5th in line to the throne. He is not a working royal; but he is a senior royal.
Not in the Palace’s and press’ view. That’s why they make a song and dance about him being in the third row, not being on the balcony and stripped him of his security.
I wish folks would stop treating the torygraph like its not just another tabloid. I just find it difficult to take any reporting seriously that quotes Fitzwilliam. I imagine they paid him 200 pounds to put his name next to a pre-written statement? The whole system is so rotten to the core; how does this pass for journalism?
Agree. Around 2006? the Telegraph was reported to have been looking to be more like their tabloidesque competitors-the Mail, Sun and whatevs. They’ve been very tabloidish since then. Every once in a while they actually print something of truth. Not the rule.
OMG in normal family dad would pick up phone and call his son to talk about his health issues, in BRF son gets an email from men in grey with subject matter “state of the prostate” LOL
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They miss Harry so much and want his attention so bad, it’s so pathetically hilarious.
This. They want any little crumb that they can get from Harry. It’s hilarious.
so if it should be a quiet approach on Harry’s part then how would Fitzwilliams et al know about it? Is this actually aimed at BP or KP to leak any details of any communication from the Sussexes?
They need *something* to fill up all of that airtime! May as well let this guy spout about his random speculations, making no sense whatsoever in the process.
We are going to get the same old talking points from the RR for clicks. Endlessly speculating about what Harry should or shouldn’t do and how whatever he does or doesn’t do is wrong and attention stealing is just tiresome BS. If a tree falls in the forest does that not happen if royal sources don’t brief the royal rota that it did?
And that’s their problem. Each time they write the same story. They get fewer and fewer clicks. Making less and less money. And with the others out for at least the next month. What are they going to write about? Plus I would imagine since Rupert Murdoch stepped down. His son is pushing for more articles. A lot of dirt on Charles and William, and probably Andrew, is about to start coming out.
Robert Phillips, I wondered about what changes would happen once the father stepped down. It’s quite possible that the brf are no longer holding up their end of the bargain, because they have nothing to bargain. Life could get very interesting.
“Buckingham Palace did make efforts to inform all senior members of the Royal family and that included relaying a message to Prince Harry.”
Yet they’ve spent the last four years telling us Prince Harry and Meghan stepped down, quit, left, are no longer, senior members of the royal family. These people give me whiplash. And a headache, lol.
How much lower does their popularity need to go before they see this vile vendetta against the Sussexes could bring them all down? Besides being reprehensible people, the Windsors are plain dumb..my comment is sort of my response to the whole week of attacks on Harry and family. I’.m Looking forward to pics. From tonight’s ceremony
There is clearly a lot of sh!t going down behind the scenes at both palaces and yeah there is def some sort of crisis going on. To have the heir use his wife’s illness to do nothing is very very telling – Peggy wants the life that Harry has and I think he will also make a break for it, making sure he gets a nice pension as well. He is def the Duke of Windsor all over again.
Unless he’s hiding money right now. Which I kinda doubt he’s that smart. If he abdicates he’s toast. All the dirt the press has on him will come out. Plus Kate and her family will totally turn on him and work to destroy him. Plus if the government is still run by the Tories. They will come after him.
They’re all so boring that this so called “feud” is the most interesting thing about them and they ( reporters / palace) are going to milk for all it is.
Harry and Meghan best remain silent and cease attempts to contact this decaying Rot of a family, just last week their innocent baby was put in crosshairs and it will lead to damaging effects especially when she grows up and reads how her “namesake” supposedly felt about her. The royal family will NEVER accept Meghan and his two children, they will barely accept him if he comes back crawling.
After Kate’s despicable behaviour towards Meghan following Queen Elizabeth’s death, why on earth should Harry contact Kate at this juncture? Kate was HORRIBLE to Meghan, and yet Harry is now expected to cozy up to his sister-in-law with phone calls, flowers, cards, or God knows what else the gutter press demands? I don’t think so.
So how long before they start saying that Charles grief over Harry caused his enlarged prostrate? Just wondering.
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I think B & KP are trying to orchestrate a scenario to show that Harry & Meghan are so incognito that Harry cannot be relied upon to be called upon at short notice as a Counselor of State.
Also this article serves to show that on the flip side relations are so bad that Harry is never informed of anything.
Oooh, that’s a good call! Definitely plausible, imo, that that’s exactly what they’re doing. How can Harry possibly be relied upon!? 🙄
Does anyone think that Harry cares whether he’s a Counselor of State? He no longer has a home there, so does he ‘technically’ fulfill the requirements? Isn’t the reason why KFC named Anne and Edward as CoS is so he wouldn’t have to rely on Harry or Andrew?
Let’s remember that the Escort and Beatrice are also CoS–I would assume William is, too. They only need two people. Why scream for Harry?
Some might, I don’t. Believe Harry knows exactly what that title means. Absolutely nothing. It’s performative. From a number of articles I’ve read-lots of word salading involved-Hercule Poirot would find it being a royal signing off on something the Grey Men and/or Parliament told you to do. It’s not a decision making thing…just signing off on something that a royal was told to sign off on.imo
NOT being a Counsellor of State isn’t any great loss. One less thing to do or having your name attached to.
I imagine BP tried to contact Harry about Chuck’s medical issues as hard as they tried to contact him about QE2’s passing. Being ‘airborne’ isn’t a good excuse. Somehow Meghan’s text to him was received. Effin liars. The BRF/BM are looking like the biggest fVcking idiots every day. I’ve written to our(US) major outlets expressing my displeasure at having any RR on their shows and have cut off the Today show for the most part. Once in a while, I will watch. NBC’s relationship with Lying Tominey killed it with me. Also unsubscribed from their newsletter. Which I’ve never formally subscribed to.
Harry has zero responsibility to respond to any of the medical issues with THOSE PEOPLE. None. They refused to protect his wife. They withdrew security to protect him, his wife and son. Chuck evicted them from Frogmore Cottage, a place they lovingly refurbished and paid for themselves. (It makes me want to puke, I believe one of the WanK’s are living there-it might end up being the best place for Kkkhate to convalesce due to the more modern improvements).
The press want Harry’s and Meghan’s attention. They can continue to starve. If the palace sent a msg…great the Sussex’s are aware. No need for contact.
Supposedly, Harry called Charles for his birthday – so why wouldn’t he call him for a medical issue? These royal experts aren’t experts in logic.
I hate to sound cynical, but interesting that the two accused of racist remarks are now the two vying for sympathy in the media and for Harry’s attention. Where were all these articles when KC and PW ignored H&M’s lives being in danger and when Meghan miscarried? Where was KC when PH tried to call him after their security was pulled? Neither side seems to be supporting the other either. Has KC put out a statement of support for Kate? Have W&K indicated any concern for KC?
Soon they’ll be saying that both medical conditions are all the Sussexes’ fault like they kept saying that they pratically caused QEII’s death.
Harry doesn’t know Kate well enough to talk about her abdomen.
That’s great! Well remembered.
Harry, we are ignoring you and Megan, we are ignoring Archie and lilibet, we don’t care about your birthdays, Christmas or christenings, we don’t care that you and Megan had a miss carriage, we don’t care about the veterans wounded serving this country, but your dad’s got a pain in his arse and your racist sister in law has had an operation, so you must respond to this terrible situation.
Harry to Fitzwilliam “fk the hell of toady, what I do /say has nothing to do with you. So if I respond it will be to my family in the UK, but don’t worry, I’m sure sometime within the next week either camzilla or your Palace puppets will let you know
So they wrote an entire article based on the time difference between England & California? Wow, that’s…something. Just because the formal public announcement was made in the early AM in California doesn’t mean Harry wasn’t informed the day before, or indeed, shortly after the operation was scheduled.
In any normal family, he’d have been “informed” by text or phone call that dad has been having prostate issues and choosing surgery. Only the Windsors have their taxpayer-paid official *staff* relay such news
These racist royal rats & commentators really think the Britains are stupid? Such a total BS. Unless some outside trauma hit upon men’s private area, it takes a long time to develop prostate enlargement & KC3 knows he has it for months if not years. It probably is affecting his normal day-to-day life quality NOW, so they choose to do the procedure. It’s not a emergency operation.
It’s a very common procedure & the advance of medical technology over the years has made it “less invasive”. There is no way IF KC3 wanted to inform Harry, he couldn’t do it in advance.
Good point! They always act as if no one else is aware of anything that happens to a Royal until it makes it into print. This was not an emergency appendectomy. This is the consequence of a, no doubt long standing, medical issue that family and close friends are probably well aware of and that would include Harry. Why the assumption that everyone else must be just as surprised as they are that Charles has a perfectly normal for his age problem that is being corrected. Sheesh!
Is Harry the only one with a phone??!! How curious!!
Curiouser and curiouser. It’s like in Alice and Wonderland. The royal family has the queen, the mad hatter and the hare, and they are all mad. Everyone is.
Choked on my coffee a teensy bit reading that headline!
Harry should send his father a selfie from the Living Legends event.
In a normal family the person who knows they will have surgery would let their kids know. They would pick up the phone and call, you know, like an ADULT.
Were there any articles at all of this type saying that KC or W&K should contact H&M in concern about their security or about the miscarriage?
No one said a thing after the car chase with the paparazzi either.
You know what I’ve really enjoyed about all of these crazy articles this month? The US media are just ignoring them. They finally figured out that the stuff coming out of the UK is a load of manure.
Harry looked handsome, relaxed and unbothered at the Aviation Awards .
So happy for him .
Why is Harry ‘wayward’? 40 years old this year…left home….solvent……working hard married…a father of two beautiful children…successful….etc.. Bet more parents wish they had a son like him!
An email from BP letting Harry know about his father’s upcoming surgery is what we now consider normal? No, Charles should have picked up the phone and call his son and tell him about the surgery. Charles should also have called his siblings to let them know.