PRINCE Harry spoke openly of his agony over Megxit in a call from hoaxers posing as activist Greta Thunberg.
He also claimed that President Donald Trump had “blood on his hands” in the chat with Russian pranksters.
Prince Harry spoke openly about his agony over Megxit in a hoax phone call
Pranksters Vladimir and Alexey, AKA Vovan and Lexus, spoke to Harry twice over the phone
The jokers fooled him into thinking he was speaking to climate activist Greta Thunberg
The Duke of Sussex was duped into saying he was “completely separate” from most of the Royal Family in calls recorded by the pranksters.
And he joked: “I can assure you, marrying a Prince or Princess is not all it’s made up to be.”
Two notorious Russian jokers fooled him into believing he was talking to 17-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg and her dad.
Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov — AKA Vovan and Lexus — twice spoke to Harry, 35, on the landline at his luxury bolthole on Vancouver Island, Canada.
The conversations were on New Year’s Eve and January 22.
One of the calls was recorded and published on YouTube and Facebook on Monday night by the hoaxers with an animated cartoon of Harry and Greta.
‘MARRYING A PRINCE ISN’T THAT GREAT’
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.
Harry opened up about the tension at the heart of the Royal Family
“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!”
‘MORE NORMAL THAN FAMILY THINK’
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.”
Harry revealed he and Meghan have given up on their dream of creating a foundation to help with their climate change and humanitarian work.
He says: “I think at the moment, my wife and I, we were being directed towards starting a foundation but we actually decided there is probably enough foundations out there doing amazing work.
“And there’s a hell of a lot of money being passed around the world and there are so many problems but we thought we’d just take a moment and see if there was some form of other organisation or different entity we could create that could bring people together, rather than us just starting a foundation. We don’t think the world needs necessarily another foundation from us.
“So we are just taking a little bit more time to think about how we can use our platform and how we can use our voice to try and encourage real change and real difference as opposed to, you know, small incremental changes.
“As we all know, the world’s problems seem to be getting bigger and seem to be happening far quicker . . . I think the solutions are far quicker to enable as well, but there needs to be a real shift in mindset. We try and do our best.
“I’ve spent many, many years being criticised by the media for doing all sorts of things and trying to change the way we think, um, and I can sympathise but at the same time applaud the work that all of you are doing because it’s not an easy time and the world is a troubled place and can be very easy to give up and I think what you guys are doing absolutely remarkable.
Harry told the pranksters he was ‘more normal than my family would like to believe’
“Unfortunately the world is being led by some very sick people, so people like yourselves and younger generation are the ones that are going to make all the difference.”
Asked by the fake “Greta” about the pressure of dealing with the media, he said: “The best advice I can give on that is to be able to see through the fear.
“For most, all of my life, I’ve always been part of a family and part of a country that is scared of the tabloid media because they have so much power and influence and no morals (chuckles).
“From the moment that I found a wife that was strong enough to be able to stand up for what we believe in together, has basically scared them so much that they’ve now come out incredibly angry, they’ve come out fighting, and all they will try and do now is try and destroy our reputation and try and, you know, sink us.
“But what they don’t understand is the battle we are fighting against them is far more than just us.
“So I think one of the, what I’ve always believed, one of the strongest ways to change mindset and be able to raise consciousness and be able to create self-awareness among people, is to challenge the media and say you have a responsibility and you are accountable for everything you are feeding people because you are brainwashing people, so this is far bigger than just us.
“Even though they want to make it personal they are scared because we are some of the first two people willing to stand up to their bullying and my wife, we can’t stand back.
“It hasn’t been very nice. It’s been horrible but we will come out of it stronger people.”
Tonight a spokesman for Harry refused to comment. But royal sources insisted it was “completely natural” for him to want to talk to Greta and share his thoughts on climate change.
