Prince Harry rails on royal family, drops F-bomb in Netflix show
Prince Harry’s trash talk and potty mouth were caught on tape in his new Netflix documentary series, “Heart of Invictus.”
The Duke of Sussex, 38, took jabs at the royal family in the series, which focuses on the Olympic-style tournament he founded for injured men and women who served in the armed forces.
While discussing the death of his mom Princess Diana, he said “no one” around him helped or offered “support” during the difficult time.
“Losing my mum at such a young age, the trauma that I had I was never really aware of,” he said. “It was never discussed. I never really talked about it and I suppressed it like most youngsters would have done.”
“But when it all came fizzing out I was bouncing off the walls. Like, ‘What is going on here?’ I’m now feeling everything as opposed to being numb,” he added. “The biggest struggle for me was no one around me really could help.”
“I didn’t have that support structure, that network, or that expert advice to identify what was actually going on with me,” he continued. “Unfortunately, like most of us, the first time you really consider therapy is when you’re lying on the floor in the fetal position probably wishing you had dealt with some of this stuff previously.”
He also spewed the F-word in the first episode of the show, during a scene speaking with two people as they prepped to go on a hike.
One man said: “I’m the only one that’s not an officer so you can trust me with a map.”
Harry then dropped the expletive as part of a joke: “What’s square and f – – ks with an officer? A map.”
The father of two then joked and used the F-word once again in the third part of the five-episode series, swearing when he thanked a British sports team for their work efforts.
“You did it everyday wearing uniform and for one reason or another that uniform had to be hung up,” he told the group in one scene. “That service that runs in your blood, in our blood — that never leaves the body. It’s there.”
“So when you’re out there, kicking a – -, trying to win a medal or just having fun and making your family incredibly proud,” the Invictus Games founder said in his pep talk.
He continued: “When you feel that feeling in your throat and you feel like you might want to cry, then just f – – king cry, all right? I mean that. Take care, look after yourselves, look after each other as well.”
Elsewhere in the special limited series, he claimed that the media “did not cover” British soldiers being hurt in Afghanistan.
Harry was deployed to the country in 2007, serving for 10 weeks and then later on several tours. He remained in the military until 2015.
In the pilot episode of “Heart of Invictus,” the duke claimed that he was sent home from the battleground after the news site, the Drudge Report, broke the news of his army service and whereabouts.
He described how he saw wounded soldiers with their “bodies in pieces” and how the media ignored them and just focused on his own army work.
He dished: “The whole reason I was allowed to go to Afghanistan in the first place was because it was kept a secret.”
“I saw what only people had talked about. That was the real trigger to see the real cost of war. Not just those individuals but also their families and how their lives would change forever,” he said on the show.
“Stepping off the plane I was angry at what happened to these guys, I was angry that the media weren’t covering it. But at that point it wasn’t clear to me what needed to be done,” Harry added.
“While I was there for the 10 weeks, no one knew apart from the British press who said, ‘We’ll keep quiet as long as we get access.’ To suddenly be on the way home, I was angry. But it was important for everyone around me – their safety – to remove me,” he sighed.
This ordeal made him realize that he wanted to help injured servicemen and women, thus creating the Invictus Games in 2014.
The multi-sport event is held annually for wounded veterans to play in paralympic-style games.
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