After decades of being rigorously and
systematically infantilized, I was now abruptly abandoned, and
mocked for being immature?
A few days back, the secret surfing life of Prince Harry, the
estranged son of Britain’s King Charles, was revealed in a post
from Kelly Slater’s Lemoore wave pool by Tahitian surf god Raimana
Van Bastolaer.
Raimana, dubbed “Human Viagra” by Cindy
Crawford and lauded by, among others, Ivanka Trump and an
“incredibly horny” Doja
Cat, loosed video of the ginger-headed killer of a
score of women-hating Taliban in Afghanistan, deftly hoisting
himself to his feet before nimbly negotiating the famous OG pool
wave.
A subsequent frame indicated Prince Harry even got himself
inside the tube at some point, although there is no video of the
event.
Naturally, the footage went viral and it with has come some
celebration, yes, but also criticism of the private jet flying,
mansion owning climate change activist prince who quit royal life
to live in Santa Babs in California alongside his media-chasing
wife.
In his harrowing memoir Spare,
Prince Harry laid out the horror of splitting from the
Family.
“I felt fatted for the slaughter. Suckled like a veal calf. I’d
never asked to be financially dependent on Pa. I’d been forced into
this surreal state, this unending Truman Show in which I almost
never carried money, never owned a car, never carried a house key,
never once ordered anything online, never received a single box
from Amazon, almost never traveled on the Underground. (Once, at
Eton, on a theater trip.) Sponge, the papers called me. But there’s
a big difference between being a sponge and being prohibited from
learning independence. After decades of being rigorously and
systematically infantilized, I was now abruptly abandoned, and
mocked for being immature? For not standing on my own two feet? The
question of how to pay for a home and security kept Meg and me
awake at nights. We could always spend some of my inheritance from
Mummy, we said, but that felt like a last resort. We saw that money
as belonging to Archie. And his sibling. It was then that we
learned Meg was pregnant.”
Prayers etc, obvs.
The Australian conservative columnist Gray Connelly, whose barbs
on Twitter are sharp enough to entertain both sides of the
political chasm, saw the pool footage, compared it with King
Charles’ tour of Australia and launched a salvo at Haz.
The contrast of King Charles interrupting
his cancer treatment to perform royal duties on the other side of
the world with his self-indulgent 40 year old wastrel son at a surf
park is a very stark one … https://t.co/HmM4bgs5vH— Gray Connolly (@GrayConnolly)
October 20, 2024
“The contrast of King Charles interrupting his cancer treatment
to perform royal duties on the other side of the world with his
self-indulgent 40 year old wastrel son at a surf park is a very
stark one …”
Comments are mostly in favour of the criticism although one wit
wrote:
“Do fuck off Gray, caught sucking the monarchy cock again.”
Touché in this instance, yes?
