Why I feel SORRY FOR HARRY

Lonely, aimless and unable to make business ideas work. A recent profile of Team Sussex painted Harry as Meghan's useful idiot. So how does he recover

- Emily Andrews

America’s glossy celebrity bible Vanity Fair has long been a Sussex cheerleader. So its recent 8,000 word takedown of Meghan (reporting claims that she’s a ‘Mean Girls’ bully who’s ‘really, really awful’ and refuses to admit her mistakes, ‘staying trapped in a victim narrative’) was astonishing.

But what I found to be even more surprising were the harsh words for Harry from a number of people who’d worked for them. The picture painted implied he was a ‘useful idiot’ for his ambitious wife – no friends, isolated from his family and lonely in the beige enclave of Montecito with only walking his dogs or playing polo to keep himself occupied.

Ouch. In fact, one columnist latterly referred to him as exactly that, a ‘useful idiot’, and I agree on the surface it is how he has been portrayed, but Harry is so much more and I have spent a lot of time with him over the years.

According to the magazine, someone interviewed by the Sussesexes for a job felt Harry couldn’t really be bothered. The interviewee said they wondered, ‘Didn’t Spotify pay you a lot of money to do this?’

Another source said, ‘He looks like the kind of guy who would, frankly, happily work for charities for the rest of his life and would be very happy if Meghan made all the money and he didn’t need to.’