It is impossible to feel sorry for Prince Harry in the cost-of-living crisis

Prince Harry’s trying to find his purpose outside of the royal family but there’s a wild reason it isn’t working.

OPINION

Prince Harry’s been having a hard time, no one feels sorry for him, and I blame the cost-of-living crisis.

Inflation is at 7 per cent and I am about 3 per cent invested in Harry’s happiness right now. You only have to step into a supermarket and look at the price of tomatoes for all your empathy for Harry to be drained from your middle class body.

Harry’s currently at a weird point in his life, I’d say career, but well … he hasn’t really had one.

He is like one of those people you follow on Instagram that talks lots about how drained they are and stresses the importance of work-life balance but it doesn’t appear like they have a nine-to-five job.

Harry fell out with his family, is in an ongoing feud with paparazzi and can’t seem to find a haircut that hides the fact he is going as bald as Bruce Willis.

At this point it seems like he is one bad day away from wearing a fedora and dressing like Guy Sebastian when he was a judge on The Voice.

Harry is trying to find himself and everyone else is losing their patience with him.

BHarry’s trying to find himself. Picture: AFP

Ever since Harry left royal life it has become clear he wants everyone to feel sorry for him.

He isn’t acting like a man at the top of the world that is finally free from the shackles of the royal family.

Instead he is determined to milk sympathy out of people by sharing stories of his brother breaking his necklace and his stepmother turning his old bedroom into a wardrobe.

Here’s the problem, though.

While I’m at the supermarket wondering if I should splurge on buying mince or if I should just use tuna for my spaghetti bolognese, Prince Harry can afford to purchase wagyu steak.

Even at one of the lowest points in Prince Harry’s life, he is still one of the most privileged men in the world.

Super-rich men just aren’t garnering a lot of sympathy at the moment.

Peter FitzSimons isn’t complaining about the rising cost of bandannas for adult men because he recognises his privilege.

I know Harry’s had a tough life. He lost his mother young, has been subjected to heinous public scrutiny and has likely been forced to watch Suits and pretend it’s as good as Boston Legal.

Yet he also had it very good! He has had the kind of life most of us don’t even bother aspiring to.

Harry’s post-royal life has been very Hollywood. Picture: AFP

He’s trying to invent a brand new image. Picture: AFP

He has been treated to worldwide travel, been to the best schools, met the most incredible people, and has always been filthy rich.

Prince Harry’s sob story right now just feels more tone deaf then relevant.

Prince Harry is privileged that he can throw all his privileges away and just head over to Hollywood and appear on talks show to complain about his family.

Do you know where the rest of us complain about our family? To our therapist, we only get to do it for 10 sessions, and then the government stops subsidising it, and we can’t even afford to go anymore.

I understand that Harry’s mad that his family and he is trying to establish himself outside of his family and he also feels like he has been hard done by but he needs to get some perspective before he falls to far out of public favour.

Maybe when the prices of tomatoes go down I’ll feel more generous.

Originally published as It is impossible to feel sorry for Prince Harry in the cost-of-living crisis