There is one other American in the top 10-Martin Luther King Jr. politician and behind only Queen Elizabeth II, while Michelle is fourth, behind Kate Middleton, according to YouGov. There is a reason why Obama shut down that discussion and it is because it would have trivialized the serious brand he has built and undermined the sophisticated tone of his existing relationship with the public.īarack Obama is, for what it's worth, the second-most popular public figure in Britain ahead of every U.K. "Sorry," the former leader of the free world replied, "we don't answer those questions." He conducted a perfectly serious and sophisticated interview with Obama in December 2017 before asking him, during a round of quick fire questions: "Boxers or briefs?" Harry who has-at points at least-been close to the Obamas once interviewed the former President during a guest editorship of high brow U.K. What is particularly striking is that he perhaps should have known just how ill-advised this anecdote was from his own exposure to some of the most sophisticated political operators on the planet, not least of which Barack Obama. "I think that some of the damage is pretty irreparable because he has now put it out there and he will be forever associated with Elizabeth Arden cream." "The question is can he win back that respect and that sense of quiet dignity because that is the only way he can rehabilitate his image. "In oversharing, all of a sudden the respect and admiration he had across the world for being essentially a war hero and a royal is gone and he has managed to unfortunately make himself a laughing stock. At that point Harry just becomes like a reality TV star. "If you remove that and you take that away then you're left with nothing really. PPJtjPXWvq- Dominic Wakeford January 11, 2023Įdward Coram James, chief executive of PR agency Go Up, told Newsweek: "You need to look at what it is about the royal family that people love or that makes them what they are. The reason was a segment in his book in which he described how he had applied Princess Diana's favored Elizabeth Arden lip cream to his frostbitten "south pole," which was bizarre enough that some needed reassurance it was not fake.Ĭlips of Harry's audio book narration of this moment-complete with the detail that his mother's memory wafted back to him-went viral on social media, with one Twitter user describing it as a "Freudian nightmare." The prince may live to regret narrating the audio book himself. The royal reporting world was braced for Harry to throw hand grenades at his family, and certainly at the media, but what no one was ready for was how much focus would fall on his penis. Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty Victoria Jones/WPA Pool/Getty Prince Harry's 'Freudian' Frostbite Story Inset, Prince Harry arrives for the funeral of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle on April 17, 2021. Main image, Britain's King Charles III and Camilla, Queen Consort arrive for the Royal Family's traditional Christmas Day service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, England, on December 25, 2022. opinion polling and nearly half the country would support them being stripped of their royal titles. Yet fast forward a little more than a month and Harry and Meghan have sunk into negative numbers in U.S. The day before the streaming platform dropped the first part of docu-series Harry & Meghan the couple cemented their leadership credentials by picking up a Ripple of Hope award from Robert F. Harry and Meghan began December on the cusp of an unprecedented opportunity to speak directly to their audience through a six-hour Netflix documentary and the prince's 410-page book Spare, released on January 10. president and as a couple they were discussed in the same breath as Michelle and Barack Obama.Īs Britain mourned Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022, even serial critic Piers Morgan expressed sympathy for Prince Harry, stripped of the right to wear the military uniform that symbolized his two tours of Afghanistan. Meghan was once tipped-whether rightly or wrongly-to be a potential candidate for U.S. Prince Harry's book tour left Americans more likely to disapprove of him and Meghan Markle than support them as a once strong brand built around compassion and leadership appeared to disintegrate on multiple fronts.
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