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King Charles sets aside things Queen stood for in order to appease Harry? ‘So idiotic!’

From ‘emotional blackmail’ to ‘blood is blood’ Prince Harry’s relationship with King Charles has totally changed

By H. Anjum
Published July 13, 2026
King Charles sets aside things Queen stood for in order to appease Harry? ‘So idiotic!’
King Charles sets aside things Queen stood for in order to appease Harry? ‘So idiotic!’

Prince Harry’s return to the UK stirred so many emotions that one expert has just come forward with a damning verdict about the behavior of the ‘wayward son’ as he’s being called.

The reason for all this angst is because it comes just days after Prince Harry spoke out against the justice system, for their decision to throw out the case he made against the Daily Mail over phone hacking allegations.

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The expert who penned the actual piece and got into the nitty gritty is royal commentator Tom Sykes and he spoke about this in a piece for The Daily Beast.

In it he broke down this entire thing into the following word, “from ‘emotional blackmail’ to ‘blood is blood’ in 20 days, via the maddest briefing war I can remember: they were coming, they weren’t coming, Meghan was coming, Meghan wasn’t coming, just Harry, Harry and the kids, back and forth, back and forth—culminating on Tuesday in Harry’s deranged denunciation of the British courts, at which point most observers concluded he had blown the whole thing up. My God, we thought, it was all there on the table for him to take. How could he be so idiotic?”

But in truth, “what we underestimated was not Harry’s idiocy. It was the king’s indulgence.” Because yesterday proved Harry has skipped the apology entirely and “Charles went straight to the calf bit.”

And for those unversed with the parable being referenced in this part, it’s the one about the prodigal son who comes home saying “father, I have sinned”.

All in all, Mr Sykes feels this decision to welcome the Prince with open arms proves the prince is going against what the Queen had asked of him in her later years.

In his concluding words he wrote, “if you set out to design an incentive structure to teach Prince Harry that intransigence works, you could not improve on what the king did this week. If you wanted to encourage a renegade son to continue with his wayward behavior, this is precisely how you would do it.”

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.