‘Fed up’: Lip reader on what Prince Harry said at coronation as Spare writer reveals 2am fight

Prince Harry complained about the royal family while sitting in the pews at Westminster Abbey, a lip reader has claimed.

Prince Harry complained he was “fed up” as he sat in the pews at Westminster Abbey waiting for his father’s coronation to begin.

A lip reader has claimed King Charles’ second son moaned to Jack Brooksbank, the husband of Princess Eugenie, as TV cameras caught their animated conversation in the third row.

“I’m fed up with the way they treat me,” lip reader Jeremy Freeman has claimed Prince Harry said, as Mr Brooksbank listened intently and appeared sympathetic.

Jack Brooksbank listens as Prince Harry lets loose.

Prince Harry allegedly unloaded his woes on Jack Brooksbank at the coronation. Picture: Aaron Chown / POOL / AFP

Mr Freeman told The Sun that Prince Harry also said: “It’s not an ideal situation.”

Mr Brooksbank apparently replied: “If I can make you feel any better, and even I can do it. It’s not the quiet life, is it.”

Prince Harry appeared to shake his head before allegedly responding: “They don’t care.”

Prince Harry, followed by Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, walks behind Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank. Picture: AFP

The Duke of Sussex cut a lonely figure at the historic event. Picture: Getty Images

Princess Eugenie’s husband then allegedly said: “I haven’t time for that, not if it’s over...”

Prince Harry added: ‘It’s an eventuality.’

As outlined in his tell-all memoir Spare, the Duke of Sussex and wife Meghan Markle have long viewed Mr Brooksbank and Princess Eugenie as friends and allies.

Lip readers also spotted Prince Harry apparently telling Mr Brooksbank he was due on a flight later that afternoon, and he left within minutes of the service ending.

SPARE WRITER IN BIZARRE TK MAXX CLAIM

Prince Harry’s ghost writer has hinted that links between the discount chain TK Maxx and King Charles’ Princes Trust charity may have led to an attempt to discredit the Duke’s memoir, Spare.

In an article for the New Yorker, J.R. Moehringer said he had rigorously fact-checked every anecdote before his book was published last January.

But one chapter caused a stir — when Prince Harry revealed he used to look forward to the yearly sales at TK Maxx, the discount clothing chain.

The author believed this to be a perfectly accurate anecdote until the store hit back at the claims, and said it “never has sales, just great savings all the time!”

He wrote in the New Yorker: “The monarchists at TK Maxx corporate, who rushed out a statement declaring that TK Maxx never has sales, just great savings all the time! Oh, snap! Gotcha, Prince George Santos!

“Except that people around the world immediately posted screenshots of TK Maxx touting sales on its official Twitter account.”

The author hinted the book was trying to be discredited by the clothing chain - due to its long standing links with King Charles and The Prince’s Trust.

“Surely TK Maxx’s effort to discredit Harry’s memoir was unrelated to the company’s long-standing partnership with Prince Charles and his charitable trust,” he said.

The Duke of Sussex, arrives at Westminster Abbey for the coronation. Picture: AFP

In a pointed tweet, Sussex ally Omid Scobie tweeted a link to Moehringer’s article for the New Yorker alongisde the qoute about TK Maxx’s partnership with The Princes’s Trust.

Moehringer also revealed in the article that he shouted at Prince Harry during a tense 2am Zoom call.

“I was exasperated with Prince Harry,” Moehringer wrote in the New Yorker.

My head was pounding, my jaw was clenched and I was starting to raise my voice.”

“Some part of me was still able to step outside the situation and think, ‘This is so weird. I’m shouting at Prince Harry,’” he shared.

“Then, as Harry started going back at me, as his cheeks flushed and his eyes narrowed, a more pressing thought occurred: ‘Whoa, it could all end right here.’”

Prince Harry, pictured at the coronation, clashed with his ghost writer over the tell-all memoir Spare. Picture: Getty Images

The writer and Prince Harry had “come to a difficult passage” concerning the Prince’s time in the British Army that they kept disagreeing on two years into their working relationship.

At the end of a military exercise, Prince Harry was “captured by pretend terrorists,” according to Moehringer.

“He’s hooded, dragged to an underground bunker, beaten, frozen, starved, stripped, forced into excruciating stress positions by captors wearing black balaclavas,” according to Moehringer.

The point of the simulation was to determine whether the royal had what it took to survive a real-life capture in a war zone.

In the end, Prince Harry’s “kidnappers” threw him against a wall, choked and hurled insults at him, including a cruel dig about his late mother, Princess Diana.

Prince Harry told his ghost writer he had always been “belittled” for his intellectual capabilities. Picture: Getty Images

“Harry always wanted to end this scene with a thing he said to his captors, a comeback that struck me as unnecessary, and somewhat inane,” the author wrote.

Finally, during the tense Zoom call, Prince Harry, who had been “glaring into the camera”, explained his mindset.

“He exhaled and calmly explained that, all his life, people had belittled his intellectual capabilities, and this flash of cleverness proved that, even after being kicked and punched and deprived of sleep and food, he had his wits about him,” Moehringer wrote.

But the writer doubled down that the retort was an unnecessary inclusion.

“It made sense now. But I still refused. Why? Because, I told him, everything you just said is about you.

“You want the world to know that you did a good job, that you were smart. But, strange as it may seem, memoir isn’t about you.

“It’s not even the story of your life. It’s a story carved from your life, a particular series of events chosen because they have the greatest resonance for the widest range of people, and at this point in the story those people don’t need to know anything more than that your captors said a cruel thing about your mom.”

Prince Harry eventually conceded and then quipped: “‘I really enjoy getting you worked up like that.’”

Originally published as ‘Fed up’: Lip reader on what Prince Harry said at coronation as Spare writer reveals 2am fight