Prince Harry’s friends are ‘very hurt’ by his bombshells, Rebecca English tells PALACE CONFIDENTIAL
The Duke of Sussex’s absence from the wedding of one of his closest friends reflects the “sad situation” Prince Harry finds himself in when it comes to those closest to him before, according to Daily Mail’s Diary Editor Richard Eden.
“We don’t know if Jack Mann has become estranged from Harry or not, but in Harry’s memoir he tells at the end how he was – in his own words – “punished” after the interview by some of his closest friends.” tells this week’s episode of Palace Confidential. “He’s done a lot of damage to those old relationships.
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Rebecca English, editor-in-chief of the Daily Mail, says the impact of his former friends is profound.
“From what I hear, there are a lot of people who are genuinely disgusted by what he has done since he left the royal family,” she told the program.
“They feel very hurt by some of the revelations he has made. As they grew up, William and Harry created a very close circle of friends around each other.
Jack Mann, 40, exchanged vows with osteopath Isabella Clark at St Peter’s Church in Stutton, Suffolk, where Harry’s friend Thomas van Straubenzee, godfather to Princess Charlotte, was a guest
The Duke of Sussex stood shoulder to shoulder with his best man, Jack Mann, and his other closest allies in the ‘band of brothers’ photograph at Windsor Castle on the eve of the royal wedding (pictured from left: Adam Bidwell, Lord Vivian , Henry Warhurst, Prince Harry, Charlie Gilkes, Jack Mann and Mark Dyer)
“There was almost an omertà between them. There are those who said, ‘we’ve been very loyal to him over the years and we don’t feel that loyalty is rewarded’.
The Duke of Sussex stood shoulder to shoulder with Jack Mann and his other closest allies in the ‘band of brothers’ photo at Windsor Castle on the night of the royal wedding.
And after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding, it was suggested that Mann wasn’t just one of the ushers, but was in fact his “real” best man, rather than Prince William.
For example, there was disappointment among royal fans over the weekend that Harry and Meghan were not present on Mann’s own big day.
Mann, 40, exchanged vows with osteopath Isabella Clark at St Peter’s Church in Stutton, Suffolk, where Harry’s friend Thomas van Straubenzee, godfather to Princess Charlotte, was a guest.
Van Straubenzee was accompanied by his wife, Lucy, an assistant principal at Charlotte and Prince George’s former school, Thomas’s.
The Duke of Sussex’s absence from the wedding of one of his closest friends reflects the “sad situation” Prince Harry finds himself in when it comes to those closest to him before, according to Daily Mail’s Diary Editor Richard Eden. Pictured Harry and Meghan Markle in December 2022
The newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Rebecca English (pictured), says the fallout from his former friends is dire
It’s not clear how close Harry remains to Mann, who he met at Sandhurst, where both were appointed to the Blues and Royals.
The Duke admits in his memoir, Spare, that he fell out with some of his old friends after attacking the royal family on television.
Prince Harry was photographed this week with his daughter Princess Lilibet at an Independence Day parade in Montecito, just hours before King Charles III attended his second coronation ceremony in Edinburgh.
The Duke of Sussex seemed to underline his retirement from The Firm when he took his daughter to the party in California on July 4, when the US marked its independence from British rule.
But as he showed two-year-old Lilibet the Montecito Association’s Village Road Show, his father, King Charles, was preparing for one of the most important moments of his reign: a second coronation in the land that his beloved second son would one day call home. called out.
Prince Harry played polo with Jack Mann when the couple were younger (pictured in May 2015)
Accompanied by family members, including Prince Harry’s brother Prince William, the King and Queen Camilla were honored at a prestigious event at St Giles’ Cathedral attended by senior royals. But the duke himself was nowhere to be seen.
Prince Harry attended his father’s official coronation, the UK’s first in 70 years, but was on British soil for just a few hours before returning to the US to celebrate his son Archie’s birthday, which fell on the same day .
His American wife Meghan Markle and two children remained in the US at their home in Montecito.
Sources previously said Meghan’s decision to stay in California had come as a relief in some quarters, fearing her presence would have increased family tensions.
WHO IS JACK MANN? PRINCE HARRY’S ‘SECRET BEST MAN’
JACK MANN: PRINCE HARRY’S ‘TRUE BEST MAN’
Prince Harry befriended Jack Mann at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He is the son of Simon Mann, an SAS officer turned mercenary who was sentenced to five years in prison for allegedly attempting to overthrow the government in Equatorial Guinea in 2004.
Close friend: The Duke of Sussex first became friends with Jack Mann during their time together in Sandhurst. Right: However, the Prince was not at Mann’s wedding to osteopath Isabella Clark in Suffolk this weekend
Harry’s friend served in the British Army for tours of Iraq and Afghanistan. After leaving the army, he worked in Libya as a country manager for a British security company called Aegis Defense Services. He then founded his own private security company called Alma Risk in 2015.
This weekend, Mann, 40, exchanged vows with osteopath Isabella Clark at St Peter’s Church in Stutton, Suffolk, where Harry’s friend Thomas van Straubenzee, godfather to Princess Charlotte, was a guest.