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AIBU to think King Charles comes across as a really crap dad?

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mintleavesandthyme · 06/07/2026 16:00

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77yykl87yno

I mean really, this is just pathetic. No one is believing that KC couldn’t find a spare bed for his son. AIBU to think that as the parent KC needs to get a grip and grow up instead of just fuelling the drama?

Headshot of Prince Harry in a blue suit, white shirt, and dark green tie looking off-camera in a room with several men in suits out of focus in the background,

Buckingham Palace says Prince Harry will not stay at palace

Royal sources say the Duke of Sussex had not responded to the offer of accommodation at a Royal residence by the deadline last week.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77yykl87yno

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FenellaFeldman · Today 13:45

As long as Harry is a Royal Prince, people will continue to believe that he's "done nothing wrong".
The latest revelations may well change this, such as lying to the court, but I suspect Harry will remain above criticism for many.

I agree with you, @Recklessismymiddlename
about the blame being put on Meghan, when Harry seems to be exonerated. . If Harry had explained about the Letters Patent for example, a lot of problems could have been avoided.

FenellaFeldman · Today 13:48

Well put, @CoffeeCantata. I think some people just don't understand that Harry has never criticised the Monarchy, nor would he, his problem is just that he's not getting enough privilege, wealth and protection - he thinks he should, by virtue of his birth status.

Lomonald · Today 13:51

Ukisgaslit · Today 12:51

@Lomonald

When was Andrew arrested ?

Only once the Epstein files were internationally available . The cover up was then out of Windsor control .

Andrew had associated with Epstein for decades. Epstein was first convicted of child solicitation in 2008 .

You are right he was taken in for i assume questioning and not released, i should have got my facts right before going off on a tangent, he is absolute entitled scum, but i think we can separate him from prince Harry and talk about both, fwiw i think PH feels as entitled as ABW because of their twisted notion of privilege.

Lomonald · Today 13:53

Recklessismymiddlename · Today 13:45

I’m just off to a meeting but I’ll try and find link for you later. But if you Google Charlotte Griffith and Prince Harry it should come up.

I will look thank you.

jeffgoldblum · Today 13:55

Lomonald · Today 13:53

I will look thank you.

<a class="break-all" href="https://archive.ph/2026.07.08-160415/www.dailymail.com/news/article-15941757/charlotte-griffiths-prince-harry.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://archive.ph/2026.07.08-160415/www.dailymail.com/news/article-15941757/charlotte-griffiths-prince-harry.html

FenellaFeldman · Today 13:56

Lomonald · Today 13:53

I will look thank you.

Yes, it's a fairly sordid tale - check out him putting a pill in her mouth.

jeffgoldblum · Today 13:56

Hope this link works @Lomonald! Make sure you click on the bit that says archive!

Batcats · Today 14:41

I'm not royalist. Andrew is an absolute repherensible human being, his association and behaviour with Epstein goes beyond any words I have and the way his mother covered up for him and enabled him was appalling.

However this doesn't behaviour doesn't give Harry a free pass to behave as he likes. It doesn't mean he's above criticism, traumatic childhood or not. It doesn't mean he can sit and tarnish and slander his family and then expect very same family to bend over backwards for him. And being "family" doesn't mean you need to accept toxic behaviour just because you share the same DNA. I don't know Charles personally but Im pretty sure he loves his son. That doesn't mean though he can't put in boundaries in place.

It's all very well people saying what they would do as a parent. And I don't doubt Harry had reasons for wanting to air his grievances at first. And things might, I repeat MIGHT have been salvageable and ok had he done the Oprah interview and left it at that. But no. He did a six part Netflix series, wrote a book and did multiple interviews to which he monetised and used to fund his lifestyle. You'd need to be made of Teflon to just ignore all that and welcome your relative back with open arms after that. I really fail to see why the onus is on his family to be making amends. No sane person would trust someone after that.

The way people infantalise is disturbing. He's not the 13 year old boy who walked behind his mums coffin anymore. He's an almost 42 year old father of two and it's still clear he takes absolutely no responsibility or accepts consequences for his actions. He's got a family to support and has now gambled their money on a ludicrous court case he has now lost. He complained his father, an unelected head of state refused to interfere in security issues that were run by a Government body. Despite his security arrangements being agreed, he took it upon himself to write to the Home Secretary demanding a review of this thinking they had nothing better to do despite losing his court case on this. And recently he thinks rotas and staff at Buckingham palace should just be changed at no notice, with no respect for anyone working there because he couldn't make up what he wanted to do.

He's repeatedly shown he thinks he's above the law. This was even shown in his recent court case with his statement and how he acted as a witness in court, completely unwilling or failed to see why he would be challenged. I can't see why anyone rushes to defend him.

EvieBB · Today 14:57

FenellaFeldman · Today 09:36

Plus: what about the daughter - she may wonder why she's called Princess Lilibet Diana. An exceptionally distinctive name, yet the RF are so toxic and damaging 🤔?

Exactly. MMs hypocrisy is astounding

Mesk · Today 15:07

Nannamads · Today 10:23

I tend to agree with you. Its Crown 1st family 2nd. We have been fed constant negative information certainly about Meghan from the beginning by the media. Neither of them can look sideways without their being a narrative about why they are looking sideways. Most of what is put out in the media is either fed by the men in " grey suits" or made up. What does it matter if he changed his mind at the last minute , we all do it and if the truth be known he wouldn't have minded staying anywhere. They are some of the richest people in the world and King Charles couldn't find a bed for him . Pathetic.

We know Harry and Meghan are the ones feeding the narrative, not the ‘men in grey suits’, wining and dining journalists and giving them information so they will write about them ‘looking sideway’s’ as you say. This is nothing new from team Sussex, it has been going on a very long time and is being proved time and time again that they not only leak to journalists, but they manipulate the information they leak. They have a private WhatsApp group with select tabloid journalists who they share information with.

H&M are sneaky, disruptive fuckers.

Batcats · Today 15:23

I'm not very sure I buy this idea that Harry is someone who puts his own family first either. How many hands on, devoted dad's do you know have time and energy to launch multiple court cases in a country 5000 miles away from the one you live in? And then put the security and finance of your family at risk by losing some of these court cases and being liable for massive financial sums?

And no doubt people will say that Charles will/should pay but he absolutely won't. We already saw (rightly) the backlash they had when they paid for the Virginia Guirrife settlement. There's absolutely no way the Royal Family are going to be wanted to be seen associating with this omnishambles of a court case given they weren't the ones who sued the Daily Mail in rhe first place.

Newname26 · Today 15:25

Nannamads · Today 10:23

I tend to agree with you. Its Crown 1st family 2nd. We have been fed constant negative information certainly about Meghan from the beginning by the media. Neither of them can look sideways without their being a narrative about why they are looking sideways. Most of what is put out in the media is either fed by the men in " grey suits" or made up. What does it matter if he changed his mind at the last minute , we all do it and if the truth be known he wouldn't have minded staying anywhere. They are some of the richest people in the world and King Charles couldn't find a bed for him . Pathetic.

Charles offered him a bed, but he didn't respond in time.
No where was good enough for Harry, so was offered the Palace.

Harry doesn't seem to have struggled to find somewhere suitable himself. Maybe the nearest Travel Lodge is good after all.

Newname26 · Today 15:32

SwingTheMonkey · Today 11:32

Are people so naive as to believe PH had any intention to stay in a Royal residence?! This has all been orchestrated to perpetuate the ‘poor Harry, isn’t everyone horrid to him’ nonsense.

That is actually a very very good point.

He's moaned about other places He's been offered before.

So Charles has played a blinder, offer them the palace see what happens. And Harry knocks it back.
Just the same as he refused to take Archie to visit his Granny without a photographer.

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