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Kate Garraway calls Prince Harry out over Prince Charles comments on new podcast: ‘It instantly sounds entitled’
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Kate Garraway has called Prince Harry out over his latest podcast stint, where he spoke of wanting to ‘break the cycle’ of ‘pain and suffering’ from his upbringing.
The Duke of Sussex appeared on Dax Shepard’s podcast, The Armchair Expert, this week, opening up about dad Prince Charles’ experiences growing up, and the impact this had on his own childhood.
He also stressed that, while he wasn’t ‘pointing the finger’, he wouldn’t pass this hurt on to son Archie and his unborn daughter, with wife Meghan Markle.
However, discussing his comments on Good Morning Britain, the host was less than impressed with his words.
Speaking of the impact this could have on his family, Kate suggested it could hurt him in the future when his own children, Archie and his unborn daughter, grow older.
‘I wonder whether if, when they start to challenge him – which of course is the job of the child, and certainly the job of the teenager – it’s what you’re meant to do, break away in as brutal a way possible, he will have it come back at him,’ she began.
‘He’s always been in the public eye obviously, do you think he almost doesn’t understand that when he says these things, the devastating impact that it’s going to be?
‘Because we have had people already say: “What does he mean talk about the cycle of pain? I grew up in a house where there was abuse, I had all sorts of things happening in my life”.
‘Of course we know pain is pain, it might be a different sort of it but it’s still difficult.
‘He is telling his story but it instantly sounds entitled and without empathy, doesn’t he?’
Fellow presenter Ben Shephard also took aim at the podcast, fuming: ‘When you start with, “I don’t want to point the finger”, and then immediately points the finger…
‘As young parents, you go, “I’m going to take the best bits of what my parents did and I’m going to take the bits that I didn’t quite enjoy as much a kid”.
‘And then you get down the line ten or 15 years later and you just hold your hands up and say “Goodness me, I can see why you did the best you did and I have just more respect and understanding”.
‘When did he become an expert? He’s been a parent for five minutes, what is he doing talking about being a parent?
‘That’s the thing I find really, really difficult. The one thing about Harry was he just felt so normal and down to earth. Something has happened…
‘His father buried his own father just a few weeks ago. You can’t imagine just how impossibly difficult that has been for the whole family.’
Later in the episode, Ben suggested that the Duke would regret some of his public comments when his own children grow up, insisting: ‘In five years, 10 years time, when Prince Harry looks back and sees these things and hears these things, I wonder what he’s going to feel about what he said.’
Lorraine Kelly also broached the topic on her ITV series, adding: ‘Once again I am baffled I don’t understand why he wouldn’t do that. It’s not going to be easy to listen to that if you’re a member of the royal family.
Prince Harry made headlines with the podcast appearance, which comes just months after his bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey, alongside the Duchess of Sussex.
He opened up about his childhood in the candid conversation with Dax, discussing the pain he still feels now – and vowing that he would not be passing this on to his children.
‘There is no blame. I don’t think we should be pointing the finger or blaming anybody, but certainly when it comes to parenting, if I’ve experienced some form of pain or suffering because of the pain or suffering that perhaps my father or my parents had suffered, I’m going to make sure I break that cycle so that I don’t pass it on, basically,’ he said.
‘It’s a lot of genetic pain and suffering that gets passed on anyway so we as parents should be doing the most we can to try and say, “You know what, that happened to me, I’m going to make sure that doesn’t happen to you”.
‘It’s hard to do but for me it comes down to awareness. I never saw it, I never knew about it, and then suddenly I started to piece it together and go “Okay, so this is where he went to school, this is what happened, I know this about his life, I also know that is connected to his parents so that means he’s treated me the way he was treated, so how can I change that for my own kids?”
‘And here I am, I moved my whole family to the US, that wasn’t the plan but sometimes you’ve got make decisions and put your family first and put your mental health first.’
Good Morning Britain continues on weekdays, at 6am, on ITV.
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