PRINCE Harry isn’t ”the sharpest tool” but he should be ”smart enough to realise” he’s diminishing all his father’s hard work, expert slams.
The Royal dropped some extraordinary bombshells after losing his appeal against the decision to remove his taxpayer-funded security.
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He described his court loss as a “good old fashioned establishment stitch up” and also took at swipe at brother William and sister-in-law Kate.
He claims he was “singled out” by the Palace and hinted that some members would “never forgive him” for his damming memoir Spare, which brands Queen Camilla “dangerous.”
Some heads were turned when Harry, 40, insisted he had forgiven his family, with experts slamming the California-based royal for ”diminishing” King Charles’ work and taking away the attention for what he’s done.
On The Sun’s Royal Exclusive show, Royal author Robert Jobson reflected on the immense amount of work the monarch, 76, has done since the passing of his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in 2022.
”He is a political figure, as well as a constitutional monarch. Situations such as him inviting President Zelensky after the fallout with Trump was quite a statement, I think.”
Charles has previously given his wholesale support to President Zelensky saying Ukraine has witnessed “indescribable aggression” following “unprovoked attack on their land”.
Robert Jobson went on to praise the monarch: ”I think he’s making his presence felt on the political stage.
”He’s very much, I think, stepped it up a little bit.
”That certainly has been a very big positive because in this world that we live with so many varying levels of statesmen […]. you do need leaders of that experience on the world stage at a time of such transition.”
Speaking of son Harry, who recently unleashed a host of new claims, the author said the Duke of Sussex should realise ”his father has a big role to play”.
”He may not be the sharpest tool, he may not be the smartest. But he’s smart enough to realise that at this moment in time, at this moment of our world, his father has a big role to play.
”By doing what he’s doing, he’s undermining not only his country, not only his father as a father but the King.
”He always tells us he loves his country, he always tells us he loves the institution of monarchy.
”The reality is, his father is doing a very important job at the moment – and that should be respected by somebody who after all served in Afghanistan.
”Our King at the moment in time has been the most experienced person on the world stage.
”He’s got great relationships with the people in the Arab world, he’s got great relationships with people in Europe.
”He’s a very eloquent, well-educated man – and you need people like that.”
A timeline of Prince Harry’s family feud
IN 2018, the Sun told how “simmering tension
The first hints of friction reportedly came after William was introduced to Meghan when she was staying at Kensington Palace.
Once she’d returned home to Canada, William and Harry sat down for a brother-to-brother chat.
He knew Harry was already head-over-heels for her but it has been claimed he advised him to take it slowly.
The younger prince reportedly didn’t take too kindly to the advice, with one royal source saying he “went mental”.
Then in June 2019 Harry and Meghan officially split off from the charity they shared with William and Kate.
The Royal Foundation will be divided between the Sussexes and Cambridges as the couples focus on their own separate charitable endeavours.
Prince William and Prince Harry first established the Royal Foundation in 2009 before Kate joined two years later shortly after their engagement was announced.
The trio would often appear together at events and the Foundation had huge successes with projects like the Invictus Games for injured veterans and the mental health Heads Together campaign.
The Royal Foundation said the decision was made following the conclusion of a review into its structure – but added both couples will continue to work together in the future.
Harry and Meg were living in close proximity to Kate and Wills within the Kensington Palace estate, but they switched to Frogmore Cottage in Windsor before baby Archie was born.
The move further increased rumours of a fallout.
Harry also hinted in his ITV documentary “Harry and Meghan, An African Journey” that he and his brother had grown apart.
In 2021, Harry and Meghan give their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey where Harry accused his dad of cutting him off financially.
Harry then jetted back to UK to join William in unveiling a statue to their mother Princess Diana in the grounds of Kensington Palace. But sources claimed William didn’t want to attend the memorial amid their ongoing rift.
In 2022, just before their grandmother the Queen died, sources claimed Kate acts as a “peacemaker” between the brothers.
Harry claimed his brother “knocked him to the floor” during an argument about Meghan, in his memoir.
In Spare, Harry said William branded Meghan “rude” and “difficult” during a row.
Harry alleged William “grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and … knocked me to the floor”.
He said he was left with a visible injury to his back following the argument in 2019 at Nottingham Cottage on the grounds of Kensington Palace, where he was living at the time.
In January this year, Harry flew in to be with Charles after the monarch’s shock cancer diagnosis.
Harry flew back to the US the following day – without seeing Wills.
In May he visited the UK for a three-day visit without seeing King Charles or Prince William.
Removal of Harry’s royal protection
This comes after the 40-year-old lost his three-year, multimillion-pound court battle over the removal of his royal protection.
His round-the-clock security was axed when Harry and Meghan stepped back from royal duties in 2020.
In a jaw-dropping interview with the BBC following his defeat, Harry still claimed to want “reconciliation” with his family.
But an insider said Charles was frustrated and upset with his son — and the burden he had put on taxpayers.
Harry bizarrely claimed to be the victim of an establishment stitch-up and “can’t see a world” in which he would bring his wife and kids here.
Harry claimed he did not want his father to intervene in the security row, adding: “I asked him to step out of the way and let the experts do their jobs.”
He claimed there had been “interference” by the Royal Household in the 2020 decision, which he said resulted in his status as the most at-risk royal being downgraded to the least at risk “overnight”.
Despite Harry’s claims it is understood the Royal Household’s role and power on the committee is minimal — and rests solely working around family members’ diaries.
Harry has claimed he took his family to the US fearing Meghan could die like his mother Diana.
He added: “I don’t want any battles to continue. There is way too much suffering and way too much conflict in the world. At the heart of it is a family dispute.”
In another swipe he added: “If anything was to happen to me, my wife, or my father’s grandchildren, if anything was to happen to them, look where the responsibility lies, you know?
“So there is a duty of care that has been completely thrown out the window and that doesn’t feel great.”
And in another attack he said: “Through the disclosure process I have discovered that some people want history to repeat itself, which is pretty dark.”
A Palace spokesman said of the long-running security battle: “All of these issues have been examined repeatedly and meticulously by the courts, with the same conclusion reached on each occasion.”