PRINCE Harry should “stop blaming others for his situation and start taking responsibility”, a royal biographer has said.
Penny Junor, author of Prince Harry: Brother, Soldier, Son, was surprised that the Duke of Sussex took “another wrecking ball” to his family this week, “blaming his woes on generations of bad parenting”.
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Her comments come after Harry opened up about his childhood on the Armchair Expert Podcast, claiming his dad, 72, “suffered” due to his upbringing by the Queen and Philip, then “treated me the way he was treated”.
The duke told host Dax Shephard how he moved Archie and Meghan to USA to “break the cycle” of “genetic pain” from his own childhood.
And he compared his old royal life to a mix between The Truman Show and living in a zoo.
Writing in The Times, Ms Junor said: “What Harry will discover as his children grow up is that we parents all muddle along with our children, learning as we go and doing the best we can, as I have no doubt Prince Charles did.
“He is now 36 years old. It is time he stopped blaming others for his situation and started taking responsibility.”
The royal author, who has been critical of Meghan Markle in the past, said she thought Harry “might have felt some remorse” after dealing similar blows during his Oprah interview, in which he claimed his dad had cut him off financially and refused to take his calls.
But she admitted she was “clearly wrong”.
“Here he is taking another wrecking ball to his family, blaming his woes — the ‘pain and suffering’ — on generations of bad parenting,” she wrote.
“This is the sort of exploration usually reserved for the therapist’s couch, not for public consumption. Or self-promotion.”
It comes after Harry said this week: “I verbalise it, which is, ‘Isn’t life about breaking the cycle’?
“There’s no blame, I don’t think we should be pointing the finger or blaming anybody.
“But certainly when it comes to parenting, if I have experienced some form of pain or suffering because of the pain or suffering perhaps my father or my parents suffered, I’m gonna make sure that I break that cycle so that I don’t pass it on, basically.
“There is a lot of genetic pain and suffering that gets passed on anyway. As parents we should be doing the most that we can to say, ‘You know what, that happened to me, I’m gonna make sure that’s not going to happen to you’.”
He fired similar punches back in March, telling Oprah he was “disappointed” in Charles, whom he described as “trapped” in his role.
But Charles stayed silent on the matter while out and about in Wales yesterday, with aides making clear he would not answer any questions about the most recent podcast.
One reporter from the BBC tried to quiz him anyway, and was heard asking: “Sir do you agree with prince Harry about the suffering and pain in the family? Have you heard his comments?”
Charles ignored the reporter and continued walking.
