As Harry and Meghan launch new documentary Heart of Invictus, it seems once again the Duke’s litany of complaints aren’t quite adding up
- As Harry makes new claims on Netflix, we explore his past comments here
The Queen’s phrase ‘recollections may vary’ came to mark Prince Harry’s previous claims, and now scrutiny is being applied to his latest utterances on Netflix.
CLAIM: There was no ‘support’ and ‘no one could help’ when Harry was suffering post-traumatic stress. He said: ‘I didn’t have that support structure, that network or that expert advice to identify what was actually going on with me.’
REALITY: In 2017, Harry revealed in an interview how his brother had helped him following their mother’s death. He told the Telegraph’s Bryony Gordon in her podcast, Mad World, that Prince William had encouraged him to get therapy. Harry said: ‘For me personally, my brother… bless him, he was a huge support to me. He kept saying this is not right, this is not normal, you need to talk to [someone] about stuff, it’s OK.’
In his biography Spare, Harry also gushes about his former private secretaries Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton – a no-nonsense ex-SAS officer who helped organise his second Afghanistan tour and whom he ‘trusted right from the start’ – and Ed Lane Fox, a onetime captain in the Household Cavalry, who had a ‘knack for seeing to the heart of things’.
Sources claimed this showed Harry had been surrounded by people who had the right experience and tried to help him.
In 2017, Harry revealed in an interview how his brother had helped him following their mother’s death
Harry said the UK media ignored stories about British soldiers wounded in Afghanistan. (Pictured: the coffins of six soldiers driven through Royal Wootton Basset in 2009, as crowds of mourners pay their respects)
Prince Harry complained the British Press ruined his deployment to Afghanistan (Pictured: Harry sits in his position on a Spartan armoured vehicle in the Helmand province)
In his book ‘Spare’, the Duke of Sussex openly discussed how he experimented with drugs in his youth, including cocaine, magic mushrooms, and marijuana
Harry shared personal information about his life in his Netflix show alongside wife Meghan Markle last winter
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CLAIM: Harry said the UK media ignored stories about British soldiers wounded in Afghanistan. Talking about seeing injured soldiers in 2008, he said: ‘I was angry that the media weren’t covering it.’
REALITY: British military deaths and injuries in Afghanistan were extensively reported on, and made front page news. Reports were compiled from official announcements published by the Ministry of Defence which provided photographs and tributes from commanding officers. To this day, the BBC website still lists all 136 UK troops who lost their lives there.
Many war correspondents came as close, if not closer, to the action than Harry, paying for it with their lives.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 79 have been killed covering events in Afghanistan since 1992, with many more wounded.
CLAIM: He complained the British Press ruined his deployment to Afghanistan.
REALITY: In fact, the UK media diligently kept his 2008 tour a secret. His cover was blown by US website the Drudge Report with a ‘world exclusive’ about ‘Harry the Hero’ and by Australian women’s magazine New Idea. Harry tells the Netflix documentary how angry he was to have to be was evacuated for the safety of himself and other soldiers after his deployment was revealed.
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