A new documentary, titled Harry – The Lost Prince, aired in Germany tonight and features interviews with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Montecito neighbors.
Meghan Markle has been criticized for “not being an asset’ to Montecito in a new explosive documentary. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are the focus of a new film, titled Harry – The Lost Prince, which aired in Germany on Tuesday, December 3.
Award-winning filmmaker Ulrike Grunewald spoke to the couple’s Montecito neighbors, royal experts, and former acquaintances to delve into Prince Harry’s struggles within the Royal Family and his current life in California.
The film discusses how Harry has “always struggled” with his role as a “reserve” and why he continues to be in the spotlight despite stepping down from his royal duties in 2020.
The Mirror examines the biggest revelations – from Harry making himself a “target” to Meghan distancing herself from the local community as Harry criticized for “whinging.”
Harry “whinging” about his family feud
In the film, Harry is criticized by a former soldier for “whinging” about his family feud in his memoir Spare and his Netflix series, the Mail Online reports. Veteran soldier Ben McBean, who shared a flight home from Afghanistan with Harry in 2008, did not hold back from criticizing the Duke over his decision to air his disagreements with William and Charles in public.
McBean, who lost his left arm in a landmine blast and had his right leg amputated above the knee, sharply commented: “I just thought, with him kind of whinging about his family and he was saying something about his brother pushing him over or something like that, I was just like, ‘Mate, just leave it out’. You and your brother had a little fisticuffs…but family’s family, you know.”
Continuing, he remarked: “If one of my friends fell out with his partner and started posting things on social media and saying my ex is this and that, I’d have told him to shut up as well,” reports the Mirror.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle moved to the US in 2020
Bad-mouthed by neighbors
One Montecito neighbor, Richard Mineards, weighed in on the royal couple’s lifestyle during the film: “It doesn’t come cheap. I mean… most houses are about eight or nine million dollars.”
He didn’t hold back when discussing Meghan’s role in the neighborhood, saying: “I personally don’t think that Meghan is an asset to our community… She doesn’t really go out or get involved with the community. Harry has to a certain extent, because he’s quite jolly… but Meghan doesn’t seem to get seen anywhere… And you don’t see him either.”
Sussexes’ public outings are “carefully orchestrated”
Former Head of Royal Protection, Dai Davies, has come out swinging against Prince Harry in his new critique, stating that during the Sussexes’ “carefully orchestrated” tours: “In Colombia, although there are very rich people there, the vast majority, 85 percent or 90 percent, are very poor.”
Davies noted that Harry seems to mingle mostly with the upper echelon, asserting, “And what I’ve noticed of these tours, he mixes with the upper classes. 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.”
Harry being a “target”
He further criticizes Harry for making himself a target by revealing in his memoir how many Taliban fighters he had killed, saying, “In his book, Spare, for him to disclose, as he did, that he had killed a number of Taliban was, in my opinion, totally unwise, because I was aware, as indeed he was, that the Taliban and various groups had put a price on his head.”
Davies adds, “And really, I think that price still remains, which could form a basis for him saying, well, I need security. If you open your big mouth, as he has collectively, that book, not just on that, but given away all kinds of secrets, then it’s not surprising that some people might regard you as a potential target.”
The couple’s tours are “carefully orchestrated”
Meghan and Harry’s “corruption”
Jack Royston, a royal expert from the Royal Report podcast, has accused Pince Harry and Meghan of “bordering on corruption” in their Hollywood dealings. He criticizes the couple for wanting to have it both ways with the Royal Family, stating: “If you have a situation where Harry and Meghan are earning huge amounts of money in Hollywood trading off their reputations, but then they’re also bolstering their reputations by working for the Queen – they’re able to present themselves on the world stage as being these working members of the royal family who are also available for a price.”
He adds, “That is a huge compromise to demand off the monarchy. If they were to be perceived to be promoting their commercial projects while representing the Queen, then that’s also… starting to border on corruption there because they should never be using the monarchy as a platform.”
Filmmaker Grunewald points out the decline in donations to the Archewell Foundation over recent years and criticizes the organization of the couple’s foundation. She reveals: “The amount of donations has fallen drastically in one year: from $13million in 2021 to $2million in 2022. According to their own documents, Harry and Meghan only work one hour a week for the Archewell Foundation.”
Despite an increase of $3m to $5m last year, it still sits at $8m below the first year’s income.
