After a years-long legal battle, Prince Harry lost his fight for taxpayer-funded security when he and his family are in the United Kingdom.
Following the court ruling, the expat ran to the British press for an explosive sit-down with the BBC, in which he claimed he does not see a world where he could bring Meghan Markle and their children back to the U.K. despite acknowledging he is not sure how much time King Charles, who is battling an undisclosed form of cancer, has left.
But perhaps the most stunning moment of the interview came when the prince suggested the Royal Family would prefer to see him dead and alleged the world would know where the responsibility lies should something tragic happen to his “father’s grandchildren.”
On Tuesday’s bonus episode, Megyn was joined by Dan Wootton, host of Dan Wootton Outspoken, to discuss Prince Harry’s “shocking new low” and why reconciliation with his family is likely no longer possible.
Harry’s Astonishing Claim
Following his courtroom setback late last week, Harry sat for an interview with the BBC and spewed many claims about the Royal Family that went unchallenged. The network has since admitted the lack of pushback amounted to a “lapse in our usual high editorial standards.”
The prince characterized the ruling against him as a “stitch-up” and accused Buckingham Palace and the U.K. government of conspiring against him. On Tuesday, the BBC released a statement admitting the interviewer did not “properly challenge this and other allegations.”
Those “other allegations” could be a reference to the astonishing claim Harry made about history potentially repeating itself – a reference to his mother Princess Diana’s untimely death.
PRINCE HARRY: …I don’t want history to repeat itself. I think there’s a lot of other people out there, the majority, that also don’t want history to repeat itself. Through this disclosure process, I’ve discovered that some people want history to repeat itself, which is pretty dark. Um–
REPORTER: That’s quite a statement. Who do you think that is?
PRINCE HARRY: I’m not going to share it at this point, you know. I know all the names of the people that were involved in this process. And again, you have to question why wasn’t I put through the same risk management board that everybody else was put through?
Wootton called the accusation “paranoia and delusion on an actual terrifying scale” because “what he is suggesting is that the Royal family is conspiring with the British government to make him unsafe, to see him die in an accident like his mother Princess Diana.” But he said Harry’s reasoning is even more bizarre. “This is where his argument gets really weird, [he thinks it is all because] they secretly wanted to force him into returning to the U.K.,” he added.
According to Wootton, that could not be further from the truth. “I’ve covered this story up close for many years… Not one member of the British Royal Family wants him back in the United Kingdom,” he explained. “And as for reconciliation, my sources very close to Prince William say that his words were ‘Over my dead body.’ It’s done. It’s over. There were red lines and Harry crossed them.”
‘Shocking New Low’
Wootton said the Duke of Sussex can’t have it both ways. “On the one hand, he is saying, ‘I want reconciliation. I want to have a relationship with my brother again… I want to speak to my dad again,'” he noted. “Then in the same breath, he is saying, ‘These guys want me to be unsafe.'”
Amid what Wootton deemed “arguably the most crazy and explosive accusation yet,” Harry also spoke about why he can’t bring his family back to his native country. “I can’t see a world in which I would be bringing my wife and children back to the U.K. at this point. And… the things that they’re going to miss is, well, everything, you know. I love my country. I always have done, despite what some people in that country have done,” he said. “I miss parts of the U.K. Of course I do. And I think that it’s really quite sad that I won’t be able to show, you know, my children my homeland.”
Megyn said the unresolved “anger” is “stomach churning,” but Wootton said the behavior is nothing new. He cited Markle’s bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey while the late Prince Philip was gravely ill in which she claimed members of the Royal Family inquired about her children’s skin color and Harry revealing additional details about the incident while Kate Middleton and King Charles were battling cancer as two such examples.
Even so, Wootton said these latest allegations are beyond the pale. “This,” he concluded, “is a shocking new low.”
You can check out Megyn’s full interview with Wooten by tuning in to episode 1,066 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s Triumph (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.