{"id":287,"date":"2018-02-05T12:30:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T11:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/?p=287"},"modified":"2018-02-05T12:31:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T11:31:27","slug":"prince-harry-says-no-royal-wants-to-be-king-or-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry says no royal wants to be king or queen"},"content":{"rendered":"

No one in the Royal Family wants to be king or queen, Prince Harry has told a US magazine, adding that \u201cwe will carry out our duties at the right time\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs there any one of the Royal Family who wants to be king or queen? I don\u2019t think so,\u201d he told\u00a0Newsweek<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And he said the royals were doing it \u201cfor the greater good of the people\u201d.<\/p>\n

Prince Harry also spoke about walking in the funeral procession for his mother, Princess Diana, aged 12, saying no child \u201cshould be asked to do that\u201d.<\/p>\n

In 1997, Harry joined his father, the Prince of Wales, grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, 15-year-old brother, the Duke of Cambridge, and uncle, Earl Spencer, in the procession through the streets of London.<\/p>\n

Harry, who\u00a0recently said he had received counselling to cope with the death of his mother<\/a>\u00a0in a car crash in Paris, said: \u201cMy mother had just died, and I had to walk a long way behind her coffin, surrounded by thousands of people watching me while millions more did on television.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think any child should be asked to do that, under any circumstances. I don\u2019t think it would happen today.\u201d<\/p>\n

By Peter Hunt, BBC royal correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is an interview that will generate some sympathy \u2013 a prince still struggling with the death of his mother \u2013 and raise some eyebrows.<\/p>\n

Such a reaction will be prompted by Harry\u2019s suggestion that the Windsors aren\u2019t exactly falling over each other to fill what his mother once called \u201cthe top job\u201d, when it becomes vacant.<\/p>\n

The Queen\u2019s heirs, he implies, will take on a position of enormous privilege because they have to, not because they want to.<\/p>\n

And despite the prince\u2019s important caveat that the royals do what they do for the greater good and not for themselves, his words have generated the Daily Mail headline, \u201cHarry: No Royal Wants Throne\u201d.<\/p>\n

Prince Harry is on marginally safer ground talking about his mother\u2019s funeral even though his comments do contain an implied criticism of his immediate family. They could have decided in 1997 that he was too young to walk, so publicly, behind Diana\u2019s coffin.<\/p>\n

There is one other striking aspect to this lengthy article. It contains no comments, by Harry, about his father.<\/p>\n

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Shopping<\/h2>\n

Prince Harry told the magazine, which says it was given access to the prince for nearly a year, that he was \u201cinvolved in modernising the British monarchy\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a tricky balancing act. We don\u2019t want to dilute the magic. The British public and the whole world need institutions like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harry praised Princess Diana for playing a part in showing him an ordinary life, saying people would be \u201camazed\u201d at how ordinary his and Prince William\u2019s lives were.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do my own shopping. Sometimes\u2026 I worry someone will snap me with their phone. But I am determined to have a relatively normal life, and if I am lucky enough to have children, they can have one too.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if I was king, I would do my own shopping.\u201d<\/p>\n

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No one in the Royal Family wants to be king or queen, Prince Harry has told a US magazine, adding that \u201cwe will carry out our duties at the right time\u201d. \u201cIs there any one of the Royal Family who wants to be king or queen? I don\u2019t think so,\u201d he told\u00a0Newsweek. And he said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}