‘I used to work for Queen Elizabeth – she wouldn’t recognise Harry now’ | Royal | News

Fast forward to this month, and the man who presided over a media spectacle ahead of a trip to the UK, including a public row over the royal’s stay, was almost a stranger, he said. Ms Anderson made the comments while appearing on the Kinsey Schofield Unfiltered podcast, reflecting on Harry’s much-publicised transatlantic visit. “Today I’m counting my lucky stars that I don’t work for the royal family,” he said. “They don’t know where the next missile will come from.

“It feels chaotic, it feels like a drama. You could never expect that from the British monarchy.”

Ms Anderson added: “I left the royal family at the end of 2013… Harry was very approachable, very warm, very talkative. Fast forward to now and in my view he is almost unrecognizable from what he was then.”

He went on to criticize the Duke’s handling of his family’s return to the UK, which included numerous press briefings about the accommodation debacle and his long-running fight for taxpayer-funded security.

“His wife’s reputation was ruined, [and] “It even creates a knock-on effect on children,” he said. “It’s the only thing people will talk about. “This defeats the real reason he came to England for the Invictus Games.”

Despite the chaos, Harry reunited King Charles with his two children, seven-year-old Archie and five-year-old Lilibet, for the first time in four years on July 10.

Speculation was rife as to whether they would reconvene following the accommodation dispute, and tensions were reported between the King and his youngest son over security requests.

While the meeting at Charles’ home in Highgrove was interpreted as a sign that relations were thawing, it was notable because Prince William was not present and the rift between the two brothers showed no signs of abating.

After stepping down as senior royal in 2020, Harry fueled the estrangement from his royal relatives by criticizing William, Charles, Queen Camilla and Princess Kate in an Oprah interview, Netflix documentary and autobiography Spare.