Prince Harry risks losing title after mocking ‘King’ Trump on Colbert

Prince Harry no doubt expected he would be in friendly company when he used his surprise appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Wednesday night to get political needle Donald Trump and voice his disapproval for a architecture like CBS caving in to the president by settling his baseless lawsuit Related Articles Poorstacy s girlfriend arrested at hotel where rapper died by suspected suicide Cause of death revealed for Human Barbie influencer Barbara Jankavski Eric Dane talks about living with ALS grateful to be working Weezer bassist s wife Jillian Lauren files for divorce after LAPD-involved shooting Clinician who sold ketamine to Friends star Matthew Perry gets years in prison Indeed Harry received a standing ovation when he suddenly appeared on stage with Colbert who is well known for his criticism of Trump And the boos that erupted in the audience when Harry joked about Americans being so obsessed with royalty that they elected a king may not have been directed at Harry as the New York Post and the Daily Mail shared It s viable that this highly partisan crowd agreed with Harry s view of Trump s dictator pretensions But if Harry scored a win with the Colbert crowd and with liberal Late Show viewers his decision to mock a sitting U S president ostensibly won t go over well with either that president or with the British authorities which is headed by his father King Charles III Given that British royals are supposed to remain publicly apolitical it s likely that he gave his family especially his older brother Prince William even more reason to consider stripping him of his royal titles according to Tom Sykes the Daily Beast s European editor and author of The Royalist Substack I believe Harry thought he was being funny but this was hardly the venue to be plunging headlong into America s defining fear of the moment creeping authoritarianism Sykes disclosed on his Substack Even though Harry is no longer a working member of the British royal family he arguably isn t free to speak his mind on politics Sykes declared He is fifth in line to the British throne carries the aura of a royal family member and is seen by the U S inhabitants as a representative of the monarchy Sykes wrote And here a royal prince is on American national television mocking a sitting U S president Sykes noted That leaves Charles in a diplomatic chokehold I think the monarchy now has no real choice Sykes continued The titles must be removed not as punishment but for clarity Removing them draws a clear blue line between Prince Harry the royal and Harry Windsor the private citizen It protects the monarchy from his volatility It frees Harry from expectations he clearly rejects And it stops the inhabitants assuming he speaks for an institution he keeps undermining Harry went nuclear on Trump when he popped up on stage during Colbert s monologue according to another Daily Beast statement The host was riffing on Hallmark Christmas movies when Harry approached him to say that he sought to audition for a movie in which he d play a Gingerbread Prince When Colbert demanded him why he d want to star in such a movie Harry announced Well you Americans are obsessed with Christmas movies and you re clearly obsessed with royalty so why not Hold on I wouldn t say we re obsessed with royalty Colbert reported Harry replied I heard you elected a king The joke refers to Trump calling himself a king in February which helped spark two major national No Kings demonstrations in cities and towns across the United States in June and October Harry jokingly complained to Colbert about Americans electing Trump after making such a big deal about my great great great great great great grandfather George III Harry continued to joke that he would do anything for a role in a Christmas movie saying I ll record a self-tape I ll fly myself to an audition settle a baseless lawsuit with the White House All the things you people on TV do The lawsuit joke referred to Paramount This joke referred to CBS s parent company Paramount deciding to settle a lawsuit from Trump to allegedly ensure their proposed merger with Skydance Media the Daily Beast announced Sykes is among royal journalists and observers who have shared that Harry and his wife Meghan Markle are at exposure of losing their Duke and Duchess and HRH titles once William becomes king In October friends of William advised Sykes that the Prince of Wales plans sweeping reforms after he ascends to the throne using special executive orders to remove princely titles from all non-working royals including from his brother and sister-in-law William has long needed to exact vengeance on Harry and Meghan since they renounced royal duties in moved to the United States to try and become independently wealthy and began criticizing the monarchy and calling certain members racist according to Sykes William has reportedly become especially incensed by Meghan trying to capitalize on her royal titles as she tries to launch herself as a lifestyle influencer The likelihood of Harry and Meghan losing their titles grew last month after Charles certainly made the unprecedented move to strip Harry s uncle Andrew of his prince title due to his involvement in the Jeffrey Epstein embarrassment Andrew already had been convinced to renounce his Duke of York title It was widely revealed by Sykes and the U K media that William lobbied hard for Andrew to lose all his titles and for the royal family to disassociate itself as much as feasible from him With Harry getting political on national television William is even more likely to take similar attempts against him according to Sykes William also might not be happy that Harry went on Colbert s show given that Colbert was forced to apologize after once cracking a joke about an unsubstantiated claim that William had been unfaithful Removing Harry and Meghan s titles also may be popular with the British masses according to polling over the past several years The majority latest poll by the Daily Express in May detected that of respondents thought Harry should lose his titles while a poll by Find Out Now shared that only of the British residents thought he should keep it the New York Post informed An Oct YouGov poll also discovered that Harry s popularity with the British publicly has declined significantly since he left the U K Only of respondents had a favorable view of him while had an unfavorable view the YouGov poll indicated As for Meghan of respondents have an unfavorable view of the American former TV actor Harry s decision to needle Trump was risky in other strategies Sykes pointed out The Trump administration has reportedly canceled visas for people who criticize its policies or its MAGA supporters while Harry s residency status has faced scrutiny by Trump allies Sykes revealed The Heritage Foundation filed a lawsuit in to force the Department of Homeland Measure to publicly release Harry s visa records to see if he failed to review past drug use on his application or if he received preferential medication Harry knows his residency has already been dangled as a political cudgel Sykes wrote Against that backdrop his decision to publicly mock a famously thin-skinned U S president feels almost self-destructive