Prince Harry increasingly isolated from friends, report says

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Prince Harry is finding himself increasingly isolated, with his “betrayed” former army pals reportedly now snubbing him, as well.

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The U.K. Mirror reported that the Duke of Sussex’s friends won’t visit him in Montecito, Calif., according to royal expert and author Tom Quinn, because of wife Meghan Markle, his new “Harry the Hippy” ways and his much-criticized memoir.

“Harry, on the other hand, is increasingly bored and looking back across the Atlantic, where most of his army and school friends still live and whom he never sees because they won’t visit him in the states because they find Meghan difficult,” Quinn told The Mirror.

The report follows Harry’s no-show at the wedding of one of his closest friends, Hugh Grosvenor, the godfather of the Sussex’s son, Archie. Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster, was married last month at Chester Cathedral, near Liverpool, and royal watchers were surprised that “neither Meghan nor Harry were in sight,” the Mirror reported.

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Harry also reportedly stayed on his own while visiting London for an Invictus Games anniversary celebration on May 8, opting for a hotel room instead of rooming with friends or family, the Mirror said.

Quinn, however, told the Mirror it didn’t seem likely that Harry was going to meet any of his school or military pals since they are “part of the old pre-Meghan world” and that Harry “hates to revisit” that time in his life.

On the flip side, Harry’s military friends reportedly felt “betrayed” by how he wrote about life in the service in his memoir Spare and believe they have “nothing in common” with him now, Quinn told the Mirror. Quinn also said the duke’s friends are not fans of Meghan, who they believe have turned him into “Harry the Hippy.”

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Meanwhile, it doesn’t seem like Harry has been able to mend fences with his family either. The Mirror reported that King Charles didn’t want to see his son during the Invictus Games visit and instead joined other royals for a garden party at Buckingham Palace as a “show of unity.”

Buckingham Palace is less than four kilometres away from St. Paul’s Cathedral, where Harry’s Invictus Games 10th anniversary party was held.

If that isn’t enough, there also seems to be a “growing rift” between  Harry and Meghan over their faltering business deals — a cancelled Spotify podcast and lukewarm response to Meghan’s lifestyle brand, American Riviera Orchard, among others — and the fallout from their split with the Royal Family.

“She (Meghan) has reached the point now where she thinks that anything and everything she does will be unfairly criticized,” Quinn told the Mirror. “Like her husband, she feels that people are unfairly picking on her — she cannot understand why people don’t admire her work.”

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