A ROYAL expert claimed she saw Prince Harry’s rude side while on a trip to Malawi and he was a “patronising” idiot.
Sky News royal editor Rhiannon Mills made the comments while appearing on The Sun’s Royal Exclusive show.
Prince Harry arrives at the Nalikule College of Education to learn about the CAMA network and how it is supporting young women in Malawi in 2019[/caption]
The Duke of Sussex meets British soldiers at the memorial site for Guardsman Mathew Talbot of the Coldstream Guards at the Liwonde National Park in Malawi, 2019[/caption]
In 2019, footage emerged of Prince Harry scolding her for asking a question hours before he released an extraordinary rant about the media.
Harry had invited the media as he visited a health clinic in a remote village in Malawi as part of the Sussexes’ African tour.
He talked to health officials and children suffering from malaria and Aids before being ushered to a waiting vehicle by palace officials.
But Harry appeared annoyed when he was asked an unscheduled question about the visit as he was whisked away.
Rhiannon told The Sun’s Matt Wilkinson that she’d had a good working relationship with the prince previously, but this time “he got very grumpy”.
She said: “New Zealand was classic Harry.
“I did this interview with him, he said ‘I’d love to have kids right now’.
“We had this really good rapport. It wasn’t a friendship, it was friendliness, but he was always really helpful.”
So when she asked him a question in Malawi, she was shocked at his response.
“Fast forward to the South Africa trip, which was sort of seen as quite make or break for them, because they’d had some negative headlines over the holidays. And actually that trip was going really well.
“We were flying around in these little planes with him.
“We were in Malawi and I was a bit under the cosh because I had to do kind of a special to end off the week.
“So as he was about to walk past me, I thought, right, I’ll do what I’ve done over the years. I’ll just ask him a quick question. We’ve all done it, the dreaded doorstep.
“It was a terrible question. It was a rubbish question. I just sort of said, ‘oh, why is it so important for you to come here?’
“And he looked at me and said ‘oh, well just go and ask those people over there’. And I probably inside thought, hang on a minute, I’m not gonna leave this one.
“I said, well, is that why it’s so important for you to come here? And then he turned around and just said, ‘Rhiannon, don’t behave like that’.
“And then got in his car and drove off. I felt like I’d looked like an idiot.
“He looked really patronising. Nobody came out of it looking good.”
She added: “Anyway, it all blew up with his team. They were livid.
“And then it was when we got back to Johannesburg and it was in that evening that that letter dropped, the 10 paragraph letter, accusing the Royal Press Pack of everything under the sun and saying that ‘we’re gonna sue the Mail on Sunday’.
“So immediately I just realised, I frankly kicked the bear and I just didn’t realise it at the time.”
The Duke of Sussex released the unprecedented statement on his personal website, complaining of “relentless propaganda” against his wife Meghan Markle.
He went on to announce the couple are launching legal action against the Mail on Sunday newspaper, which published extracts of a letter written by Meghan to her father Thomas Markle.
The Duke of Sussex takes part in a discussion with young people during a visit to the Mauwa Health Centre in Blantyre, Malawi, on day nine of the Royal tour of Africa[/caption]
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex makes a speech as he dedicates Liwonde National Park and the adjoining Mangochi Forest to the Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy during the royal tour of Africa on September 30, 2019[/caption]
