Sept. 21, 2026

A Prince Harry Body Double? Meghan’s Video Sparks Bizarre Rumors about Fake Prince Harry

Show Notes
Transcript

Why are online commenters claiming Prince Harry used a body double in Meghan Markle’s family fishing video? Questions about Harry’s hair have prompted speculation about digital editing and a stand-in, but the script offers no evidence supporting those theories.

Harry is scheduled to attend London’s WellChild Awards today before traveling to New York for the Clinton Global Initiative. What will he do at the awards, and will his charity appearances help define his new public life in Britain?
Meanwhile, is Prince William’s relationship with Harry now a “very, very cold war”? Royal commentators assess whether the brothers can share public occasions even without a private reconciliation.

Plus, why does Nicola Sturgeon argue that abolishing the monarchy would benefit Prince George? Critics question the Sussex school-change narrative, while Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, visits Zambia to champion eye care, meet female business leaders and deliver royal honey. Her luggage, unfortunately, has a different itinerary.

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Kalaroga Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue. I

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am your host, Mark Francis. Is there a fake Prince Harry?

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Radar Online has found a new mystery in Meghan's recent

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video of family life in Britain. What happened to Harry's

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bald spot? The video includes footage of Harry fishing with

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Archie and Lilibet, but some social media critics noticed that

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the man in the boat appears to have considerably more

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hair than Harry has displayed during recent public appearances. Radar

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says that prompted everything from accusations of digital editing to

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claims that the man wasn't Harry at all. One critic wrote, Hmm,

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I can state unequivocally that this is not Harry. Never

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has he had a styled haircut, nor has his hair

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ever been too toned. You can see the back and

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sides have been clipped with precision, with the top left

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with some length. He has no bloody hair on top.

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Others went further saying, Wow, Harold has a stunt double

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for taking the kids fishing. H didn't have that much

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hair the day he married Megs. Would H wear a

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toupee to take the kids fishing? So sick of H

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& M and their stupid games. We'll keep an eye

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on hairlines today as the real Prince Harry is scheduled

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to be in London today for the 21st Annual Well

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Child Awards, continuing a relationship with a charity that stretches

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back 18 years. Harry has been patron of Well Child

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since 2008 and has attended the awards 15 times previously.

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The event celebrates seriously ill children and young people, as

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well as the families, health care professionals, and others who

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support them. Before tonight's ceremony, Harry will meet privately with

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the winners and their families. He will then present the

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award for Inspirational Child, ages 4 to 6, and deliver

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a speech. Tomorrow, he is scheduled to be in New

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York City for the Clinton-Gobel Initiative Annual Meeting, his second

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appearance at the event after taking part in 2024. The

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meeting runs Tuesday and Wednesday during United Nations General Assembly Week.

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Harry is among a lineup that also includes Chrissy Teigen,

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Bill Nye and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. This year's theme

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is How Do We Get It Right? with discussions expected

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to cover artificial intelligence, climate and energy resilience, democracy, humanitarian response,

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economic opportunity and health. We'll see if William and Kate

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do one of their cute couple appearances to keep control

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of the tabloids. William and Harry's relationship is now being

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described as very, very cold war. Royal historian Amanda Foreman

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tells People, At the moment, it has gone from being

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a hot war to a very, very cold war. But

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in a cold war situation, you still have to turn

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up to the Olympics. Royal author Simon Vigor describes the

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Wales' approach as, It is keep calm and carry on.

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They see it as a sideshow in ancient history. Russell Myers,

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author of William and Catherine, says, William's view is clear.

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Any relationship his father has with Harry or the Sussexes

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as a family is entirely up to him. But looking

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toward the future, he will have no relationship with them

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in a working or private capacity whatsoever. William and Catherine

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can maintain that their focus has to be about them

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and their family, but there will be pressure on them

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about how they interact with Harry and Meghan and their

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family in the future. A Palace Insider put it more

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simply to people, It's been magnified when they were in

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California and you gazed through the looking glass... You couldn't

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see it so well, but it is right back in

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front of them. Scotland's former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says

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one of her arguments for abolishing the monarchy is that

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it would free future generations of the royal family, including

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Prince George, from having their lives decided for them. Sturgeon

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makes the argument in the new Channel 4 documentary, The Royals,

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Time to Go, in which she says, I would say

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one of the arguments for getting rid of the monarchy

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is for the sake of the members of the royal family,

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like Prince George, for example. That kid doesn't know any different.

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He has a certain life ahead of him that he

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has no choice over. Is that really fair? And so

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I actually think it's one of the arguments for getting

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rid of the monarchy to free the future members of

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the royal family from carrying that burden. Sturgeon says she

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has huge sympathy for members of the royal family despite

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her support for replacing the monarchy. Her argument echoes something

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Prince Harry has said about his own experience. During his

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2021 interview with Oprah, Harry said, I was trapped within

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the system, like the rest of my family are, my

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father and my brother. They are trapped. They don't get

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to leave, and I have huge compassion for that. Republic

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Chief Executive Graham Smith also backed Sturgeon's broader argument, although

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in much stronger terms. The royals clearly haven't learned any

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lessons from Harry and continue to use their kids as

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PR props. It cannot be healthy for children to be

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paraded about in gold carriages, but the royals just can't

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help themselves. There are a lot of better reasons for

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getting rid of the monarchy, like giving ourselves a fairer

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and more robust democracy. But clearly, the monarchy cannot be

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good for the kids, and they tend to grow up

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as dysfunctional adults. Comedian Leo Kearse has accused Harry and

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Meghan of using the drama surrounding the school move to

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create material for a future project. Kearse told GB News,

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This is them setting up a narrative, setting up a

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chapter for their next book, The Princess of Wales. I'd

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recognize her kids, but Harry and Meghan's kids, I wouldn't

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recognize them. Commentator Benjamin Butterworth challenged him, why are you

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so obsessed with them? Curse responded that it was the

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first time he had discussed Harry and Meghan during one

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of his GB News appearances before continuing, nobody could pick

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the kids out of the lineup. Maybe this is concocted,

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maybe this is a genuine security threat. A lot of

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people have a bee in their bonnet about Harry and Meghan.

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This is them making more drama to sell more jam.

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More Palace in just a moment. Hello Magazine tagged along

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with Sophie for a five-day visit to Zambia. Sophie's first

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day in Lusaka included a meeting with the President and

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First Lady at their private residence. A meeting scheduled for

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just 10 minutes ultimately lasted more than an hour, with

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discussions covering education, Zambia's mining industry and the President's own

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connections to Britain. There was also an unusual royal photo

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opportunity when Sophie encountered a herd of zebras roaming the

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presidential grounds. They're good lawnmowers, Sophie said. Yes, the president replied,

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and good fertilizers. Sophie brought several personal gifts, including three

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jars of honey produced by bees at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle,

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and her own home at Bagshot Park. She also presented

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the president with a scarf made from traditional Zambian silk.

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Chitenge fabric he and the First Lady had previously given

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King Charles. Explaining the honey, Sophie said, So you have

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three different types of honey from three different types of bee.

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Did you raise the bees? the President asked. Personally, Sophie replied.

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Elsewhere in Lusaka, Sophie met female business leaders and visited

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the Jewel of Africa workshop where women are trained to

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turn Zambia's mined emeralds into finished gemstones. Sophie put on

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overalls and tried polishing a piece of quartz herself. Sophie

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also used the first day of the visit to make

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a strong appeal for greater access to eye care, an

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issue she has worked on internationally for many years. If

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a child can't see, they drop out of school. If

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they can't see, their life chances are drastically reduced. If

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somebody can't see in the home, they can't sustain themselves,

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their families. I used to say that actually eye health

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was life-threatening. I still believe it is. I've met people

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who live on the streets because they cannot live with

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their families anymore because they feel that they're a burden.

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And so they leave and take themselves away so I

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place it at high priority. I care for all. The

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tour got off to a slightly less glamorous start, and

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Sophie's luggage was delayed, forcing her to attend her first

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engagement in what she called her airplane clothes. And there

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