PIERS Morgan has branded Prince Harry’s hoax phone call with Greta Thunberg ‘one, long whine’ and says it confirms his worst fears about the ‘woke’ royal.
The Duke of Sussex spoke openly about his distance from the Royal Family and contempt for President Donald Trump thinking he was on the line to the teenage eco-activist.
Prince Harry spoke openly about his agony over Megxit in a hoax phone call
But Harry, 35, was actually being pranked by notorious Russian jokers Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov — AKA Vovan and Lexus — who spoke to him on New Year’s Eve and January 22.
One of the calls was published on YouTube and Facebook, as revealed by HOAR today.
Reacting to the audio recording on Good Morning Britain, Piers said the call revealed Harry’s “inner turmoil” as he and Meghan Markle prepare to quit as senior royals at the end of the month.
He said: “This confirmed everything I’ve been fearing about where Harry’s going.
“It’s one, long whine. He seems very unhappy about almost everything, it’s very defensive, it’s very aggressive about the media… it’s very woke, in that it’s all about ‘I’m here to save the world with my wife’.
“There’s an inner turmoil with Harry which comes through in this hoax call.”
In both calls Harry opened up to the fake Greta about the tension at the heart of the Royal Family.
In one, he says: “You can call me whatever you want — Harry is fine.” He then speaks about how hard it was for him and Meghan, 38, to quit Britain.
He says: “Um, it’s, that’s probably a conversation for another time, there’s lots of layers to it and lots of pieces to the puzzle.
“But sometimes the right decision isn’t always the easy one.
“And this decision certainly wasn’t the easy one but it was the right decision for our family, the right decision to be able to protect my son.
“And I think there’s a hell of a lot of people around the world that can identify and respect us for putting our family first.
“But, yeah, it’s a tricky one, but we will start a new life.”
Asked by the prankster playing Greta’s dad Svante if normal life was worse than royal life, Harry replies: “Oh no, I think it’s much better (chuckles).
“You forget, I was in the military for ten years so I’m more normal than my family would like to believe.
“But certainly being in a different position now gives us the ability to say things and do things that we might not have been able to do.
“And seeing as everyone under the age of 35 or 36, seems to be carrying out an activist’s role, gives us the opportunity to try and make more of a difference without being criticised (chuckles).
The hoaxers joke about “Greta” reading about the royals and Harry replies: “I can assure you, marrying a Prince or Princess is not all it’s made out to be!”
They ask about reports of Harry being “stripped” of his royal titles by the Queen after he and Meghan decided to step back.
Harry replies: “No, no, again you mustn’t believe what you read, no one has stripped us of our titles.
“Because of a technicality within the family, if we are earning money separately from within the family structure, then we obviously have been asked not to use our titles in order to make money, which we would never do.
“But the press managed to jump on that to make it look like we had been stripped.”
Asked about the scandal involving his uncle Prince Andrew’s friendship with billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Harry says: “I have very little to say on that.
“But whatever he has done or hasn’t done, is completely separate from me and my wife. We operate in a way of inclusivity and we are focusing on community. And so we are completely separate from the majority of my family.”
Told on the tape by the hoax “Greta” that Mr Trump had run away from her, Harry replied: “What a surprise.
“But Trump will want to meet you to make him look better but he won’t want to have a discussion about climate change with you because you will outsmart him.
“Whether you have an option to meet President Trump or an option to meet Boris Johnson, I think I would always.
“It’s far more important to have an open dialogue and have conversation with these people than not.”
He also said: “The mere fact that Donald Trump is pushing the coal industry is so big in America, he has blood on his hands.”
Harry told the pranksters he was ‘more normal than my family would like to believe’
