Prince Harry's 40th Birthday: what's next for Diana's lost child?

0:00 Ah Caloroga Shark Media. Hello and welcome through palace intrigue. I am host of Mark Francis Coppy Sowerby, writes in Unheard Somewhere in Montecito. On Sunday, a balding Englishman will celebrate his birthday over a bold tig and yellow clinking glasses with his glamorous Californian wife, like footloose Agadou and the original apple Mac. Prince Harry is turning forty, leaving behind a torrid decade of public spats, toddure confessions, and expensive therapists. Nothing quite boils the blood of middle aged men more than the departure of the Duke of Sussex for a better life out West, an upside down Steinbeck protagonist.

0:49 Most will claim to be enraged by the Duke's abandonment of duty, or some such sniffing notion, but we all know that his great crime greater even than the suggestion that his wife once made these painted Princess of Wales's cry over bride'smaid's dresses, his self involvement. His twenty twenty one interview with Oprah alongside his wife Megan, confirmed our most seconding fears that the toxic creed of speaking your truth had become irreversibly lodged in good old Harry Windsor's brain. Despite having two of the most unpopular qualities in British culture, he is, after all, a ginger posho. Harry was always respected among the bulk of the public, who we must remember, regard the royal family with nothing more and nothing less than detached, bemused affection. He was the light relief to William's somber nobility, the cheeky spare who went naughties led culture, seeming to enjoy his privilege rather than WinCE at it, frollicking around in states of controversial dress or undress and injecting a sense of normality fun even into a unit which had been so racked by tragedy and worse off putting stuffiness. But his capture by millennial therapy culture signaled the death of this happy, go lucky persona. When the winks stopped, we sobered up and realized we had been sat opposite a quift clown made up to look like a cheeky friend. Prince Harry is, without a doubt, the most millennial millennial to ever have breathed in his trajectory from cheeky chappy to earnest self regarding counseling patient lies the story of his generation's downfall into cringe. What really

2:21 sticks in the craw is not the Sussex's progressive values, which I find to be admirable, requiring considerable bravery in today's media climate, but the damned hypocrisy of it all. It is difficult to be told to check your privilege by two monte seats and millionaires, and I fear they represent a very millennial crusade for justice, that is, one which privileges instagrammable opportunities over substance. Harry's millennial earnestness has gone down like a cup of warm sanset with gen Z, who are on the whole much funnier and much less cringe, and right behind us, Jen Alfa is ready to snatch the crown from their parents' receding hairlines. Prince Louis will no doubt prove that we againsteen nothing. Yet one wonders how Harry's own story will end. In The Daily Mail, Jan Moyer writes Katy Perry, Ellen Degeneras, Steve Martin, Jennifer Aniston, Ariana Grande Gwyneth Poulter and Robblow were just a few of the stars who owned properties in the Montecito area, alongside newer residents, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. We treat all of them just like ordinary folks, is the mantra you hear over and over in the restaurants and boutiques along the coast Village Road. So on the morning of September fifteenth, Prince Harry could be forgiven for congratulating himself on the road he has traveled to reach this point as his milestone birth the approaches. He certainly deserves credit for having the courage to change history and his own destiny by choosing a future he felt was a better fit for his family for himself. Yet, although Harry has gained much in the four years since he fled to America to escape the oppression and tyranny of inherited wealth,

3:53 it could be argued that he has lost even more. Perhaps the truth is that the Duke of Sussex had to destroy his past to create his future. But even though sympathetic to his cause, wondering if he really had to damage so many other members of the royal family in the process, Harry may have glory in his new life, and he may indeed have much to celebrate, but the sadness is that he will never have another brother and he can't make new old friends. Prince Harry's past birthdays give an indication that, despite the high born benefits, his passage through life has not been easy. There are a few years of innocent birthday teas featuring cakes and sawbey before the tragedy of nineteen ninety seven, the year he turned thirteen. Wreathed in a little boy's deep shock, he initially refused to believe his mother had been killed in a car creation in Paris. In Spare, he reveals his thoughts at the time, She'll be back. She has to be.

4:43 It's my birthday. In two weeks he shot his first stag about moral on his fifteenth birthday. Had a low key twentieth as he was preparing for his Sandhurst entrance exams, although the following month he was brawling with photographers outside a London nightclub. On his twenty fifth birthday, he was on holiday in Botswana, celebrating with cake and cocktails. On his twenty eighth he was a soldier under Taliban fire at Camp bastion in Afghanistan. His thirtieth birthday was major, having survived the naked Billiard's incident in Las Vegas two years earlier. He inherited a large sum left to me by mummy, had just left the Army, split up with Cressida, Bonus, launched the first Invictus Games, decided to track to the South Pole, and was speaking of hopes that he would find someone to settle down with and have children in the standard Luciana Bellini reminds us it's a far cry from the Duke's last milestone birthday. Then a thirty year old Harry was fourth in line to the throne and at the heart of the firm, regularly voted the most popular member of the royal family. He celebrated his birthday with a black tie bash at Clarence House, thrown by his brother, with bottles of high Grove champagne sent by his father. Today, those closest to him say he's at a crossroads, with his future uncertain. Many he was projects in the US haven't panned out the way he'd like, and friends say he spends more time looking back than forwards.

6:03 Harry's a bit of a lost soul in that he's lost his chief official role in life, says Stephen Bates, author of Royalty Inc. Britain's best known brand, He's becoming irrelevance, stuck in a golden cage. Royal expert Ingrid Seward spoke to the son about the old adage, if you haven't made it by forty you never will. Ingrid said, but of course that's not true. But I think in the back of Harry's mind probably he's thinking, I've got to get on with it. I've got to really go for it. Now he has success of the Invictus Games, which we will know, but we can't really name anything else. There were lots of other philanthropic things, but just off the top of my head, I only think Invictus. So I think Harry needs to kind of get a stronger foothold into that world that he says he wants to promote so badly. In The Daily Mail, Brionny Gordon tells us what her friends Prince Harry and Megana really like. She writes, people want to know what they are like, but only if it talies with the version of the famous person that they have created in their own head. I mention this because about eight years ago I became friends with Prince Harry, and ever since life has been peppered with questions from people curious to know more about his character.

7:09 Has he been brainwashed? Is he intent on bringing down the monarchy? Does he smell of money? And so on so forth? And when I tell them my honest opinion that he is kind, funny and pretty damn normal, all things considered, I often see a flash of disappointment cloud their faces, followed quickly by words to the effect of well you would say that you know him, as if knowing someone should disqualify you from having a trusted opinion about them. There are no heirs or graces with them, no desire to do anything other than protect their children from an increasingly digital world that likes nothing more than seeing the worst in people, a world that forgets that no matter how high profile a person is, they're just doing their best like everyone else. This is not what people want to hear, but it is what I've found time and time again. So happy fortieth birthday, has May you continue to make a difference for the next four years, regardless of the naysayers. Harry told the BBC, I was anxious about thirty. I'm excited about forty. Whatever the age, my mission is to continue showing up and doing good in the world. Palacindri could be right back. In the Telegraph, Hannah Furness writes about what's next for Harry. The Duke and Duchess are committed to their mission, show up, do good, we are told next up. Shortly after his birthday, Harry is planning a trip to New York for meetings with four of his familiar organizations, African Parks, the Halo Trust, the Diana Award and ecotourism company Travelists. They seem set to re establish Harry's own long term projects, as well

8:42 as positioning him as Diana's son. He usually travels back to Britain for the annual well Child Awards, which take place in September. He is a long term patron of the charity for seriously ill Children. Then the next Invictus Schemes will be held in Vancouver in February. If only his security in the UK could be permanently settled in line with his wishes, a Sussex source tells US celebrity magazine People, it would be swords down on his interviews until then, the need to make serious money remains. The Sussex's commercial deals have not always been smooth sailing. The Netflix deal, announced to huge fanfare, is still there. Some programs have been made, the six part Bombshell Harry and Meghan, an Invictus documentary, and a series about activists, but there has been the ever present issue of staff to parting and criticism from outside the industry over how long things have taken to come to fruition. They have parted ways with Spotify with that unflattering but lingering description from an executive who called them effing grifters. There was a time one source joke that they seemed to be losing their Sussex appeal. But there are projects coming up, including a rom com, Meghan's cookery show and a Polo documentary which Harry is undeniably well placed to make. On the money making front of the Duchess has launched a new lifestyle label, American Riviera Orchard, unveiled in April when she sent fifty jars of jam to friends including reality star Chris Jenner and model Chrissy Tigan. Not yet off the ground, it has a recently run into difficulties securing a trademark. Many of those who worked with Harry and years gone by remain fond of him, even as some of them admit

10:14 to being deeply frustrated his choices. The horrified reaction in royal circles to his memoir, documentary and many interviews scarcely needs repeating. More recent articles in which Harry's friends lamented his security, frustrations and lack of family warmth were described sadly by one sources, a howl of rage. Conscious that the younger generation are always the more glamorous and fascinating to the public, allowing them to win column inches in broadcast time for their favorite causes. He once said he would use his own platform until I become boring or until Prince George ends up becoming more interesting, and they have it to email us and addresses to the Palace intriguet gmail dot com. Please follow us on Spotify, Apple or the app of your choice dand senders a review. Hi, those stars of you enjoying the show. I'm marked front is my thanks to John McDermott. This is palas Intry.

11:03 Good times. Yeah,