One key factor that the tabloid focused on was the rumor that the royal couple would have a second baby sometime this year, which would be “just the distraction” the Duke and Duchess of Sussex needed.
Woman UK published the unsolicited advice from the author of Prince Harry: The Inside Story for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex following the royally troubled duo’s exceptionally bad year in the press.
The author, Duncan Larcombe, had been following Prince Harry since the redheaded royal was a teen, and had seen the troublemaking prince through several highly publicized scandals. Included in the tally were Prince Harry’s unfortunate decision to dress up as a Nazi, his attack on a photographer, as well as his infamous strip poker incident in Las Vegas.
These events, the author argued, only made Prince Harry all the more endearing to the British public. More specifically, the author claims the Duke of Sussex was “popular with journalists,” and “invested time and effort playing to their egos,” which resulted in the prince enjoying an easygoing relationship with the press, as well as “a string of positive headlines and support.”
But something had changed by the end of 2019, a year after Prince Harry wed Meghan Markle and months after the couple welcomed their first child, Archie. Now, the author argued, Prince Harry was in danger of losing his status as “someone who’s universally remembered as the tragic 12-year-old walking behind his beloved mother’s coffin,” if he continues courting the “perception of an angry prince barking at the moon.”
It should be noted that Prince Harry is now a grown man, with an infant son of his own, and that the moment that the author references is likely one of the saddest moments of Prince Harry’s life. It’s a defining moment, for sure, but how likely is it that Prince Harry wants that one moment to continue to define his life?
Moving on, Larcombe claimed that by adopting a “negative stance towards the media,” the two made themselves “look aggrieved with a life that is laced with great privilege and wealth.” The author rattled off several so-called scandals that the couple endured in 2019, such as their £2.4 million renovation of Frogmore Cottage (which has since been paid back), as well as the time that Elton John lent the couple his private jet.
In order to fight this perception of themselves, what the two need to do is make good on the rumors that “they’re keen to have another baby.” A source close to the couple informed the author “they don’t want Archie to be an only child and they don’t want a big age gap between the siblings.”
In addition to the “distraction” of a newborn, the author suggested that “the easiest way of avoiding those negative headlines” is to not “give his critics the ammunition in the first place.”
The author was more than happy to elaborate. “This means reining in the lectures of poverty and the environment, no private jets in the new year, and avoiding laying himself open to speaking out about the ‘plights’ of life as a royal.” In conclusion, the author wrote,