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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Anne McElvoy

Prince Harry: if philanthropy is the aim, tales of sex and killings aren’t the best way to the top table at Davos

How does it end, this pyrotechnical explosion of grief, anger and bruised entitlement? By the second week of January, “Harry the Interview” was already a 2023 TV milestone, starring an unassuming-looking chap who proudly holds the title of Duke of Sussex, while plainly reviling the family institution which makes him the King’s son and brother to the king hereafter.

Is he the angry, mixed-up man, led astray by an ambitious wife, as his critics insist? This encounter made clear that Harry is more the driving force of the rifts with the family than Meghan ever could have been. The ferocity of his umbrage burned bright over 90 minutes. The couple had left the UK “fearing for our lives” and unhappily at odds with practically everyone in the royal family, especially his condescending big brother William.

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