'Booed Again': Prince Harry U.K. Trip Finds Public Still 'in Same Frame of Mind' When Duke Was Heckled Next to Meghan on St Paul's Steps
Prince Harry could find the British public 'in the same frame of mind' as when they booed him and Meghan Markle on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral in 2022.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were infamously booed on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral in June 2022, and according to Princess Diana's former butler, Paul Burrell, it may well reoccur. The Duke of Sussex is set to visit London and the cathedral on Wednesday, May 8, for the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games.
"He is returning to St. Paul’s Cathedral, where he was last booed," Burrell told an outlet. "The public is still in the same frame of mind, he may well get booed again."
"They don’t have a place or a purpose here; after all, Harry is now a resident of the U.S., so he is almost American," the bestselling author added. Burrell also pointed out how Brits are "unhappy with how things have turned out."
He further added: "I'm sure the king and queen aren’t either. William has drawn a line in the sand; there is no chance of Harry reconciling with his brother. There is a chance, and the door is still open with his father, and I’m sure there will be a meeting, but Camilla won’t be there because I don’t think there is any love lost between Camilla and Harry."
Burrell ominously revealed how the royals have moved past anger and accepted a level of "detached indifference" to the formerly popular, fiery-haired prince. "I think they are just letting him get on with it now; I don’t think they are too happy about it, but Harry is taking another step closer all the time to isolation."
"Harry has pressed the self-destruct button and he is going ahead with what he thinks is right and I think he will come unstuck," the ex-palace aide explained. "I don’t think all their plans are going to pan out, I think there is a time scale to his destruction."
He concluded: "None of this would have happened and there wouldn’t be this mess if Diana was still here because she would have cleared it up, but there is no one to do it and so it is going to rumble on because nobody is brave enough to stick their neck out and no one is strong enough for Harry to listen to."
St Paul's is also the destination where the royal rebels' mom married a then-Charles, Prince of Wales, in what one royal historian called "the most extravagant British royal wedding since the Middle Ages." The pair initiated one of the monarch's worst-ever scandals, "the War of the Wales' in the early 1990s, and divorced in 1996.
Although iconic, this is one cathedral that seems to have bad luck for the House of Windsor.
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The New York Post reported on Burrell's remarks.
