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Prince Harry smashes something precious to the Firm with a hammer

Prince Harry warned he ‘can’t get it back’ after smashing something with a hammer no less

By H. Anjum
Published July 01, 2026
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Prince Harry smashes something precious to the Firm with a hammer
Prince Harry smashes something precious to the Firm with a hammer 

Prince Harry has just come under fire for the way he handles things and an expert has just pointed out how damaging his behavior is, not just towards those who he grew up around, but on the fragile trust people in public spaces offer.

Rebecca English, royal editor at the Daily Mail is that expert in question and she made her points during an appearance on The Palace Confidential podcast with its hosts.

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“(Charles is) not a bad man,” she began by saying, in an effort to keep the blame where it lies.

“He's not an uncaring man,” either she noted too. In truth “he loves his son, but his son has put him in a very, very difficult position.”

In Ms English’s view, part of the reason so many hiccups are already showing up, even before the Sussexes set foot in England, is because of their past behavior towards the Firm. Whether it be the Spare memoir, or their interviews, and even Meghan’s insistence to use her HRH and husband’s Dukedom to ‘claim a similar name’ to her children.

All in all, Ms English weighed in on the dangers Prince Harry poses and said, “he has betrayed a lot of family intimacies. I don't want to use the word 'secrets', but it's certainly intimacies.” Because “there's a very small circle of people (the Royal Family) can trust and once you're in that circle of trust you remain in (it) and Harry has smashed that with a hammer.”

What Have the Couple Done Since Megxit?

From Vancouver Island, Canada to Santa Barbara, California, and Tyler Perry’s house in between, the couple moved around in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. But before that, their last leg of royal work included attending the Endeavour Fund Awards and the Commonwealth Day Service held at Westminster Abbey.

A couple of years later news came that a 12-month ‘review period’ concluded, which meant that the Sussexes would officially be confirmed as not returning to royal life. This also led to the stripping of Prince Harry’s honorary military titles, and royal patronages.

From that point on the interviews, (Oprah Winfrey, 60 Minutes, CBS, BBC) the docuseries, (Harry & Meghan) began, right after deals were signed with both Netflix and Spotify.

While the Netflix deal is said to be ongoing, despite it being in a diminished capacity, the Spotify deal fell through and fans even saw the CEO, Daniel Ek, come out and accuse the couple of being “grafters.”

Following that, around 2023, in January the memoir that Prince Harry had been working on came out, titled Spare, and showcased details from the Sandringham summit, the dog bowl incident (where Prince Harry was thrown in by his brother) as well as a promise of ‘more material’ should a second book be in consideration.

In between all this (in 2021) Princess Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor joined the family, but not before Meghan suffered a miscarriage that she later penned for The New York Times, titled ‘The Losses We Share’.

The only documented returns to the UK where Meghan followed her husband was for Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee (June 2022), then later her funeral as well. However, it did not end there because then the King’s Coronation followed, Lilibet and Archie became Prince and Princess, as is their ‘birthright’ in the words of their father, following that many years later the father and son duo made their first official contact in Windsor Castle, over tea for nearly an hour. Since then the anti-royal interviews have reduced, and its said the Sussexes are working towards rehabilitation, despite Prince William’s rumored dissatisfaction.

H. Anjum
H. Anjum is a News Editor at The News International (Digital) with over five years of newsroom experience. She is a media graduate specialising in British royal coverage, reporting on monarchies, traditions, and modern royal life. She also writes on fashion, movies and TV shows with contemporary relevance for a global audience.
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