Prince Harry ‘hated woke nonsense’ before meeting Meghan, Eton peer tells royal biographer

Prince Harry reportedly hated “waking up nonsense” before he met Meghan Markle, a new book claims.

The Duke of Sussex, 38, is said to have been a non-fan of “all that politically correct stuff” before he met then-Suits actress Meghan, 41, and enjoyed sharing jokes that “we’re not allowed to anymore.” do”.

The claims of one of Prince Harry’s ‘Eton contemporaries’ are made in a new biography, Tom Quinn’s Gilded Youth, news week reports.

Quinn’s book reportedly quotes Harry’s classmate, whose name is not mentioned, as saying: “He was funny, a little cynical and great company because, like the rest of us, he pulled jokes that we don’t hear anymore.” Lets do”.

The claims come after the Duke of Sussex has been accused of being “woke” as he has championed new causes in recent years.

The former Eton pupil is reported to have accused Harry of becoming a ‘tree hugger who reads the guardians’ after meeting the Duchess of Sussex, and suggests that the Duchess herself was the person behind his transformation.

He said: ‘He rarely, if ever, talked about global warming. He was sort of a Tim-Nice-but-Dim character who liked to fuck with his army and his Eton friends, he did a little shooting and fishing and otherwise was indistinguishable.’

Since stepping down as a senior member of the royal family, Harry has spoken about various causes and issues that he rarely commented on before.

An ‘Eton contemporary’ of Prince Harry has reportedly told biographer Tom Quinn that the Duke of Sussex, now 38, used to pull the pranks ‘we’re not allowed to do anymore’. The duke’s anonymous former partner suggested that Meghan Markle was the reason behind Harry’s transformation into a ‘tree hugger who reads the guardian’, as written in the new book Gilded Youth.

His more recent forays into addressing these issues have led some people to label the Duke an “awakened”.

Last year, royal expert Angela Levin claimed that Harry and Meghan were “trying to create an alternative royal family that would wake up.”

She told FEMAIL: “I’ve thought for a long time that Harry and Meghan are trying to create an alternative royal family that would wake up, the grandeur and pomp and circumstance that surrounds them.”

In his £100m Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan, the duke spoke about how he has tackled his own unconscious bias in recent years and has since encouraged the royal family to do the same.

In an interview to promote his Spare memoir bombshell in January, Harry told former NFL player Michael Strahan that the royal family needed to educate itself on unconscious bias if the monarchy was to modernize and survive.

Harry said that he wanted the royals to survive, but that a better understanding of the race would be “hugely beneficial” to them.

Harry said: “I think the same process I went through with regard to my own unconscious bias would be very beneficial to them.”

“It is not racism, but an unconscious bias, if it is not confronted, if it is not recognized, if it is not learned and cultivated, which can become racism. And the way I understand it is that we all want to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem.’

Harry has also appeared on panels and in videos for new mental health platforms in which he has spoken about the importance of “maximum mental fitness”.

Last July, he appeared in a video encouraging people to focus on “flexing their minds” instead of “fixing” them to “unlock the greatness within.”

In a film for the $4.7 billion mental health startup project BetterUp, he shared information about how he maintains his own mental health.

“We all have greatness within us,” says the father of two at the start of the five-minute short film. ‘Mental fitness helps us unlock it. It’s an ongoing practice, one in which you approach your mind as something to flex, not fix.

Another of the causes for which he has supported in recent years is ending global warming, stating that climate change and mental health are two of the biggest problems facing the world in a series on Apple TV.

Speaking to Oprah Winfrey on The Me You Can’t See: A Path Forward, she said: “With kids growing up in today’s world, it’s pretty depressing, right, depending on where you live, your home country is on fire, it’s underwater, houses or forests are being washed away.

“Climate change is really playing a huge role in this, as well as social media, and we just don’t, well, I mean, I know a lot of people are doing the best they can to try to fix these issues, but That whole sort of analogy of going into the bathroom with a mop when the tub is overflowing, instead of just turning off the faucet.

Gilded Youth by Tom Quinn published by Biteback, price: £15