Prince Harry has suffered another blow after a German documentary included damning criticism of Harry and his wife’s attempts to build a new life for themselves after quitting as senior royals in 2020.
The documentary titled ‘Harry: The Lost Prince’ aired on Germany’s ZDF network on December 3 and looked at the life of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in detail.
Since stepping back as working royals, the couple have conducted overseas trips together including to Nigeria and Colombia earlier this year, with royal critics branding the trips as ‘faux-royal’ tours.
In the bombshell documentary, Harry has been accused of only mixing with “wealthy” people on trips overseas – and failing to intergrate with ordinary communities.
As reported in the Daily Mail, Dai Davies, a former Head of Royal Protection and a Divisional Commander in the Metropolitan Police, said in the show: “In Colombia, although there are very rich people there, the vast majority, 85 percent or 90 percent, are very poor.
“And what I’ve noticed of these tours, he mixes with the upper classes.”
The former Head of Royal Protection and a Divisional Commander in the Metropolitan Police, further added: “He doesn’t really, apart from carefree orchestrated areas where he mixes with so-called the ‘normal people’ – well they’re not.
“These are carefully orchestrated campaigns as far as I can see… I look quite dispassionately at the evidence and the evidence I’ve seen is, it’s all about Harry and Meghan.”
In August, the Duke and Duchess of Sus𝑠e𝑥 visited the South American nation on a four-day trip that included stops at Bogotá, Cali and Cartagena and the Colombian Ministry of Equality and Equity, led by Vice-President Francia Márquez, hailed the trip a “success”.
A spokesperson of the Ministry said: “It was a very productive visit that allowed connections to be established between the populations and the Archewell Foundation – created and led by the Duke and Duchess of Sus𝑠e𝑥 – to promote programmes aimed at the economic autonomy of women, the prevention of violence in digital environments for girls, boys and young people, and support for leaders who build peace through art and culture.”
The programme also takes a dig at the couple by detailing how their much-publicised visits to poverty-stricken countries such as Nigeria and Colombia sits uneasily with Meghan’s love of expensive designer clothes.
One reporter Russel Myers says on the show: “If you’re going to places like Nigeria, like Colombia, which have huge socio-economic problems, some of the world’s poorest communities in these countries, and you’re turning up wearing tens of thousands of pounds worth of designer clothes – it really doesn’t send the right message.”
In the show, royal biographer Angela Levin also said that the prince “didn’t get exactly what he wanted” as he wanted to be half in and half out of the Royal Family.
She said in the programme: “But the late Queen who died said that actually doesn’t work and I don’t want you to use your position within the royal family to make money.”