Prince Harry’s Netflix show about polo may have been torn apart by the critics, but you might have expected his old friends from the sport to have a much more positive assessment.
But Tommy Severn, the Polo England captain who has played with both Princes William and Harry, has joined the chorus of mockery, I can reveal, criticizing the show as ‘very strange’.
He also said California-based Duke ‘can’t come back to England now’ because any return would make him ‘look like an idiot’.
Severn was dismayed at how little Harry features in the series, which has failed to crack the top ten Neflix shows anywhere in the world, and said: ‘It seemed to be more about Timmy and Tim Dutta than the prince , which doesn’t appear until almost the end.’
Timmy, 23, plays for an American team financed by his father.
Harry and William were once so close to Severn’s family that they kept their ponies at his grandfather, Christopher Hanbury’s polo stud in Gloucestershire. Harry also spent his gap year on the family farm in Argentina.
Tommy Severn, the Polo England captain who has played with both Princes William and Harry, has joined the chorus of mockery against the Prince’s new polo show
Mr Severn (pictured) also said California-based Duke ‘can’t come back to England now’ because any return would make him ‘look like an idiot’.
Severn said Harry (pictured) ‘can’t come back to England now’ because any return would make him ‘look like an idiot’.
Severn said the show was more ‘Timmy and Tim Dutta (pictured) than The Prince’
When asked why the Duke didn’t mention his formative years in polo with Severn and his family, he replied: ‘I have no idea!’
He added: ‘I think Harry has cut ties so if he came back now he would look like an idiot.’
But he said he could not completely rule out Harry returning to Britain and royal life later: “William could have helped him because they were close – that’s the bond of brothers.”
Harry’s show, called Polo, aims to expose the sport’s ‘fierce rivalries’. But the prince, 40, only appears a handful of times in the five episodes.
Jane Fryer’s review for the Daily Mail called the show ‘plodding’ and ‘boring’, while The Guardian described it as an ‘unintentionally hilarious profile of the world’s stupidest sport’.