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Strip Him Now: Harry’s Trump Taunting TV Stunt, Royals Fuming

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Strip Him Now: Harry’s Trump-Taunting TV Stunt Leaves Royals Fuming

 

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Prince Harry has detonated yet another transatlantic stink bomb — and this time, royal insiders and experts say the only way to contain the fallout is to rip the titles off him entirely. After an excruciating, attention-grabbing performance on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show, in which the Duke of Sussex mocked President Trump and dragged the monarchy straight into America’s political cage-fight, royal watchers say enough is enough.

 

Tom Sykes, a long-time observer of the House of Windsor, delivered the harsh verdict: Americans don’t see “Harry Wales, private citizen.” They see a British prince taking public swings at their head of state — and they assume Charles and William are lurking just off-camera, nodding along.

“The titles must be removed,” Sykes said. “Not as punishment, but as clarity.” In other words: stop the global confusion, shield the monarchy from Harry’s volatility, and make it impossible for him to weaponise royal status while pretending he’s just another Californian dad with a podcast.

 

A Diplomatic Disaster in the Making
Harry’s latest TV tour — for no obvious reason other than craving applause — shoved King Charles into an impossible diplomatic position just as London and Washington quietly prepare for a state visit next year. Instead of discretion, Harry delivered punchlines mocking Trump as an “elected king,” sneering at CBS’ legal dealings, and performing a cringeworthy Bake Off lip-sync that left even Colbert looking second-hand embarrassed.

Worse, the late-night host is notoriously disliked in royal circles after tasteless jokes about Princess Kate during her cancer treatment. Yet there sat Harry — grinning, giggling, and pouring petrol on an Anglo-American political bonfire.

 

A Prince Playing with Deportation Fire
If the performance seemed reckless, that’s because it was. Harry still lives in the U.S. on a visa — a visa currently at the centre of political battles, lawsuits, and attempts by Trump allies to force its disclosure using Harry’s own drug-use admissions in Spare.

Sykes warns Harry has blundered straight into the heart of America’s culture war. In an era where political dissent can be used as grounds for removal from the country, Harry chose to publicly taunt a famously vindictive former President.

“He either doesn’t understand the danger,” Sykes said, “or he no longer cares — so desperate is he for the spotlight.”

 

The Optics Couldn’t Be Worse
While Harry was clowning on late-night TV, the Daily Mail revealed that Meghan Markle’s estranged father, Thomas, is fighting for his life in a Philippine ICU after emergency surgery. Meghan, meanwhile, was busy promoting her Netflix holiday special.

The contrast was brutal: family crisis overseas, Hollywood branding exercises at home — and Harry playing prince-for-hire on U.S. television while taking partisan shots that he promised the late Queen he would never take.

 

A Line Finally Crossed?
When the couple quit royal life at the Sandringham Summit in 2020, Harry pledged to uphold the monarch’s values — a tacit agreement to avoid politics. That promise, critics say, died on Colbert’s stage.

Now the drumbeat in royal circles is unmistakable: this can’t go on. Harry wants the fame of a prince without the responsibility of one. Americans can’t tell the difference. And every time he opens his mouth, the monarchy gets dragged into a feud it never asked for.

Stripping the titles, Sykes argues, is the only clean break left — the final firewall between the Crown and a runaway royal who refuses to dim the spotlight, even when it threatens his family, his residency, and Britain’s diplomacy.

 

Key Takeaways
• Expert warns Harry’s Colbert stunt makes Americans think he speaks for the monarchy.
• Calls grow for stripping his titles entirely to protect King Charles and the institution.
• Harry mocked Trump despite living in the U.S. on a visa that political allies have already tried to weaponise.

 

Source: Daily Mail

 
 

 

A loose canon and a liability, he needs to wind his neck in and crawl back to his manor house and stay there with his even more disliked  wife. 

I think Trump can defend himself , without the help of the royal family........ he has admitting taking drugs in his book--- and putting negative to drug taking on his USA Visa.  

I think the vast majority of Americans could care less what he says about Trump, and my guess is that a pretty substantial percent agree with his criticism and his statement about electing a king. And even if a lot of trump supporters didn't expect Trump to crown himself, it sure happened quick enough.

 

Let us not forget it's a minority of people in the US that support Trump at this point, and his approval is falling on a daily basis. Many Don supporters are very thin skinned, and it is almost as if they are impersonating their political master by showing an extreme level of sensitivity to criticism. There's really no need for people to imitate the snowflake, who is the biggest whiner, the biggest complainer, and the most thin skinned man in America. As many of us know sensitivity to criticism comes from a very deep place, and it's usually about self-loathing and an extreme lack of self-esteem, the exact opposite of who Trump portrays himself to be. 

 

Having said that Harry does seem like a bit of a fool, and though I don't follow them on any level they do seem like a fairly useless couple. But as far as I'm concerned everyone has the right to criticize Trump, American or not. He richly deserves that. 

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