ROYAL expert Rafe Heydel-Mankoo has blasted Prince Harry – saying he is a hypocrite for lecturing others on climate change.
On reports Prince Harry is going to be giving a speech to the United Nations, Rafe told GB News:
“This is quite remarkable. He’s going to be delivering the keynote speech of the UN on climate change.
“And if it wasn’t so hot today, I’d think it was April Fool’s Day because quite frankly, asking Prince Harry to talk about climate change is akin to, you know, the Vatican asking Boris Johnson to talk about celibacy.”
“Delivering a keynote speech on climate change, you would assume that rather than being hypocritical in virtue signalling that you would try to address some of those issues around in your own life.
“Now the Prince of Wales has made great steps to try to make sure that vehicles in the royal household are energy efficient.
“But that flight they’ll probably take my private jet from LA to New York is about ten times the yearly British complete carbon footprint.”
Asked about what qualifies Prince Harry to address the UK, Mr Heydel-Mankoo said:
“Well, he’s had a long relationship with Africa.
“As we know, today is Nelson Mandela’s birthday, so the UN has declared today to be international Nelson Mandela day, and every year there’s a celebration of Mandela’s life, and also looking at a cause to highlight and of course, yes, the idea is Prince Harry will bring star power and attention to this to this issue.
“And it’s the first actual public appearance of the Duke and Duchess since the Platinum Jubilee.
“Now some people want to speculate on why it’s been so long since they actually haven’t been in public.
“Some people may think that was licking their wounds for the last few weeks having had their attempts to play a more prominent role in the Platinum Jubilee scuppered by the Prince of Wales and Prince William.”
Commenting on Tom Bower’s new book on Prince Harry, he told GB News:
“I think this is undoubtedly the book of the summer.
“For as a royal historian, I think it’s the Book of the Year. I mean, the revelations that are being serialised in the Sunday Times.
“This is a tell-all book about the relationship of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and is called Revenge.
“And it really gives us I think the best insight into the psychology of both Prince Harry and Meghan.
“What this book really does, I think, just based upon the few revelations that we have seen over the past few days, is that Meghan from the very outset was very keen ascending, so much that she didn’t matter, she didn’t really care who she trampled on in the process.
“The book lays out from long before she knew Prince Harry episodes which really confirm the suspicions most of us have.”
On supporters of the couple on Twitter, he said:
“Certainly I’ve been hearing Meghan does have a very, very powerful lobby on her side of these Twitter warriors who are keen to advance her case but I think trying to defend some of the revelations we’ve seen in this book will be quite an impressive task.
“You’ve seen how Prince Harry’s oldest friends from the very first time they met her, found her to be Princess Pushy.
“She was taking them to task for every little bit of banter, every joke that they would make. Looking at in Montreal, for example, the way she dealt with staff in Montreal in 2016, before she had basically been right on the world scene
“Everything that she has done in her life really seems to be about assuming this course. And the Prince has unfortunately been the naive, rather intellectually underwhelming chap who has been given the platform for her to advance.”
