Harry It is the complete opposite of its brother Williamwho over the years had consolidated his profile as a serious and responsible heir, and to whom he has little ties today.
Married for six years to the actress Meghan Markelfather of two children and resident in Montecito (California), his life today is more like a movie star than a prince, with book presentations and interviews on successful programs.
The producers and editorials He is in high demand, perhaps because he has shown that he has a lot to say despite the family fracture that this has caused, and whose reconciliation seems not to be easy.
Harry rebel
Second son of Carlos of England and Diana of Welshis fifth in line to the British throne.
His life suffered a hard blow when in the summer of 1997 his mother died in a traffic accident in Paris at the age of 36. Harry had 12.
The image next to his brother Walking behind his mother’s coffin moved the world. But life goes on, and Harry He continued to attend his school in Notting Hill before entering Eton in 1998, where he graduated in Art and Geography.
Afterwards he took a sabbatical year, worked on a farm in Australia, and upon his return he joined the Royal Military AcademyHe was stationed in Afghanistan, trained as a pilot and rose to captain.
A year later, in 2012, photos of the prince and a naked young woman appeared in a Hotel room in The Vegas. Harrywho had already scandalized British high society by appearing at a costume party dressed as a Nazi and having been involved in a fight with a photographer, was beginning to forge his legend as a rebel prince.
Harry meet Meghan
The tabloid press then made him their main target and in 2016 his first images with the American actress were leaked. Meghan Markelwhom he had met on a blind date and with whom, as in the best romantic movies, he fell madly in love.
The icing on the cake came on May 19, 2018, when the couple said “I do” in St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castlein front of hundreds of family members, royal representatives and celebrities, as was to be expected.
The young man Harry It seemed that he had settled down, but the worst was yet to come. On January 8, the couple announced that they were resigning from their positions as members of the royalty to live off their own income in Californiawith what that implied. On the one hand, the “sentimental breakup” with the family of Harryand on the other hand, that the couple became dependent on them to meet their expenses.
Harry and the Megxit
The Royal fracture became even greater when in an interview with the American star Oprah Winfrey, Meghan He confessed that while he belonged to the royalty She even contemplated suicide and pointed to the racist behaviour of a member of the royal family who speculated on the skin colour of her son Archie before he was born.
But there would be more. In January 2023 Harry published his book of memoirswhere he referred to his status as “plan B”. “I was brought into the world in case William “Something was wrong with him,” was one of his most controversial statements.
On a path of no return, the couple has returned to the United Kingdom only a few times since then. And not even the current episodes of cancer Carlos III and Kate Middleton have softened the situation.
When in February 2024 the King announced that he was suffering from the disease, Harry flew to London to inquire about his father. They were only 45 minutes of father-son meeting and did not see anyone else.
Three months later, however, the prince spent three days in London to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Games Invictusbut did not meet his father. The monarch is too “busy” to meet his son, The Telegraph newspaper reported at the time.
Harry “super-star”
Meanwhile, his plans are unknown. Harry for her 40th birthday, but the truth is that one of the greatest gifts will come to her in the form of a legacy from her great-grandmother, the Queen Motherand would amount to 8.3 million euros.
The sum would be part of a trust fund that the sovereign bequeathed to her family and that the prince will be able to claim when he blows out the 40 candles.
A not inconsiderable figure that will join the 11 million and the 7 million that he already received from his mother and the same great-grandmother, respectively, after both died. It is unknown if the Queen Elizabeth II left her something.
On the other hand, the couple received a significant sum of 21 million euros from Spotify for the sale of its podcast failed – “some things have worked and others have not,” the CEO told the company – to which should be added the 94 million that they are said to have received after an agreement with Netflix by the documentary that they starred in.
And without forgetting the payment of the memoirs of Harryfor which he received around 20 million euros.
A addition and continues, and whose “the end” remains to be seen when it will come.
(Text: Begoña de la Fuente Gonzalez)
