Other royal experts given their experiences with Harry’s reaction to articles

PRINCE Harry got “agitated” over a Heat magazine story and “very worried” about reader comments on a newspaper website, according to a royal expert.

Speaking on The Sun’s Royal Exclusive show, Richard Palmer shared Prince Harry was trying to “micromanage things” even back when he launched the Invictus Games in 2014.

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Prince Harry was said to have been ‘agitated’ over a Heat Magazine article, according to a royal expertCredit: AFP

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Richard Palmer spoke to The Sun’s Royal Editor Matt Wilkinson about Harry trying to ‘micromanage’ his imageCredit: The Sun

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Prince Harry launched the Invictus Games in 2014 and was ‘agitated’ about coverageCredit: Paul Edwards – The Sun

He said to The Sun’s Royal Editor Matt Wilkinson: “Of course the British press did give a lot of support to that [the games].

“I got a letter from the sort of organiser of the first Invictus Games thanking me personally for my support.

“And at the same time, I can remember him [Harry] getting really quite agitated on that trip about something he’d read in Heat Magazine.

“And we were sort of ‘why are you worrying about Heat Magazine, they haven’t got a royal correspondent’, but he sort of saw the media just as one thing and to him there wasn’t that much difference between a royal correspondent and somebody who never never reported on him before.”

Richard added: “He was also very worried about the readers’ comments underneath a news website, not my at that point website but another newspaper company’s website.

“And I don’t think anybody could really understand why he was micromanaging things and why he was so agitated about things because clearly there was a lot of nonsense said and written about him at times.”

According to royal author Omid Scobie’s Finding Freedom, Prince Harry frequently reads the comments on articles about him and Meghan.

The book claims: “Scrolling on his iPhone, he sometimes couldn’t stop himself from reading the comments on the articles.”

It added: “Harry regretted opening the link.

“His stomach tied into the same knot every time he saw these sorts of comments.

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“’It’s a sick part of the society we live in today, and no one is doing anything about it,’ he continued.

“’Where’s the positivity? Why is everyone so miserable and angry?’”

I can remember him [Harry] getting really quite agitated on that trip about something he’d read in Heat Magazine.

Richard Palmer

Daily Mail’s Rebecca English claims that Harry once peered over her shoulder at her computer during a visit to Lesotho in 2006 and said: “Just wanted to see what you were saying about me.

“I always want to know what people are saying about me.”

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped down as senior working royals in 2020 and now live in California with their two children, Prince Archie, four, and Princess Lilibet, two.