The Duke of Sussex has been hit with another setback.
Prince Harry has been criticised on TalkTV (Image: Getty)
Prince Harry has suffered yet another devastating blow as campaigners are urging him to give up his seat on the board at African Parks, but royal butler Grant Harold believes the Duke of Sussex, 41, has no one to blame but himself. The African wildlife charity is facing allegations that rangers linked to the organisation committed serious human rights abuses against indigenous Baka people in the Republic of the Congo.
Grant described the story as another setback for Harry, suggesting that the negative headlines “never seem to stop.” He drew a comparison with the late Queen Elizabeth II, noting that she encountered few legal battles during her life. Speaking to TalkTV host Mark Dolan, Grant said: “His grandmother, the late queen, I believe she only had two legal things happen in her lifetime. And here, we’ve got her grandson who seems to be in the press most weeks for some legal thing.”
Royal butler Grant Harrold believes Harry has brought his recent problems on himself (Image: TalkTV)
Mark highlighted the importance of The Invictus Games, but revealed that many of its participants feel it’s become more about Harry and his wife Meghan Markle.
He added: “They feel it’s been affected by the toxicity of the Sussex brand when it should be about the veterans.”
Alongside growing concerns over the funding of Invictus and renewed calls for him to resign from African Parks, Harry was also forced to step down as patron of Sentebale, the charity he co-founded in memory of his late mother, Princess Diana, following a dispute with its chair, Dr. Sophie Chandauka.
“The problem you’ve got for Harry is that the one good thing in his life was the charity stuff and even that seems to be a hot mess,” Mark remarked.
Grant responded: “It is a mess and let’s just say he was still very much a working member of the royal family, he still had a great relationship with his family. This wouldn’t be happening. It’s an absolute fact.
“He would still be carrying on doing what he was very good at. The reality is, as we’ve seen with his uncle, when you become an embarrassment or a problem for the royal family, other organisations and charities don’t want to have the association any longer.”
He added: “I feel sorry for some of these charities because they probably adore Harry, but at the back of their minds, they’ll be thinking, ‘Is this going to cause problems between us and another member of the royal family?’
“And you can completely understand why. I don’t want to say it but he has brought a lot of this on himself.”
