2023-09-02 18:03:21
The Duke of Sussex, the younger son of King Charles III, has linked the release of a TV series about the Invictus Games, which begin next Friday in Dusseldorf, with fresh allegations against the royal family. Prince Harry has partnered with Netflix to produce a five-part documentary that aims to provide an insight into the lives of wounded soldiers and how exercise is helping them.
The Invictus Games were launched in 2014 at the instigation of Prince Harry, who is still the patron of the associated foundation to this day. The first games for war invalids took place at the London Olympic site; this year they will be held in Düsseldorf. Soldiers and veterans from more than 20 countries are taking part for the first time, and disabled athletes are also coming from Ukraine.
Harry himself served in the British Army for ten years. He went through officer training at Sandhurst and was trained for special duties as a reconnaissance officer and helicopter pilot. He served with the British Forces in Afghanistan in 2008 and 2013 and left active duty with the rank of Captain.
Harry appears in the documentary largely without Meghan
Since the beginning of 2020, Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, are no longer full-time representatives of the royal family, they have relocated from London to California. Harry had many military honors and patronages to relinquish, but he retained his role in a few charities.
Despite their departure from the circle of the “company”, as the former Queen Elizabeth II occasionally described the representative active members of the family, the subsequent material undertakings of the Sussex couple were largely fed by the dispute with the royal family. In a long interview, a first Netflix series and a biography of Harry, the couple repeatedly accused the other members of the royal family of not treating them fairly and not being recognized. In the most recent release, the Invictus games series, Harry appears largely without his wife; on this occasion, too, he occasionally directs vague accusations against his family.
The Duke says after his second tour of duty in Afghanistan, during which he noted in his autobiography that he killed more than two dozen Taliban fighters, he realized how much he was trying to keep the trauma of his mother Diana’s accidental death under wraps have. Harry admits in the new TV documentary that he “didn’t have the support structure, the network, or the expert advice to figure out what was really going on with me. Unfortunately for most of us, the first thought of therapy is when you’re curled up on the floor like a fetus, wishing you’d dealt with some things sooner.”
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The Daily Mail newspaper pointed out that Harry’s new details contradict an interview he gave to the Daily Telegraph six years ago. At the time he said: “My brother, a blessing, has been a great support to me. He was always like, ‘This is not normal, this is not right, you need to talk to someone about it’.”
The “Daily Mail” states that other statements made by Harry did not stand up to the facts either, such as the statement that the British press had revealed his mission in Afghanistan and thus forced him to return early. The newspaper notes, however, that in 2008 Harry’s mission in Afghanistan was first uncovered by the American and Australian media. The ducal couple is expected in Düsseldorf next Friday for the opening of the Invictus Games, which are expected to last around a week.
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