Prince Harry slammed by Aussie press as a “self-indulgent wastrel” after surfing footage goes viral

After decades of being rigorously and systematically infantilized, I was now abruptly abandoned, and mocked for being immature?

A few days back, the secret surfing life of Prince Harry, the estranged son of Britain’s King Charles, was revealed in a post from Kelly Slater’s Lemoore wave pool by Tahitian surf god Raimana Van Bastolaer.

Raimana, dubbed “Human Viagra” by Cindy Crawford and lauded by, among others, Ivanka Trump and an “incredibly horny” Doja Cat, loosed video of the ginger-headed killer of a score of women-hating Taliban in Afghanistan, deftly hoisting himself to his feet before nimbly negotiating the famous OG pool wave.

A subsequent frame indicated Prince Harry even got himself inside the tube at some point, although there is no video of the event. 

Naturally, the footage went viral and it with has come some celebration, yes, but also criticism of the private jet flying, mansion owning climate change activist prince who quit royal life to live in Santa Babs in California alongside his media-chasing wife.

In his harrowing memoir Spare, Prince Harry laid out the horror of splitting from the Family. 

“I felt fatted for the slaughter. Suckled like a veal calf. I’d never asked to be financially dependent on Pa. I’d been forced into this surreal state, this unending Truman Show in which I almost never carried money, never owned a car, never carried a house key, never once ordered anything online, never received a single box from Amazon, almost never traveled on the Underground. (Once, at Eton, on a theater trip.) Sponge, the papers called me. But there’s a big difference between being a sponge and being prohibited from learning independence. After decades of being rigorously and systematically infantilized, I was now abruptly abandoned, and mocked for being immature? For not standing on my own two feet? The question of how to pay for a home and security kept Meg and me awake at nights. We could always spend some of my inheritance from Mummy, we said, but that felt like a last resort. We saw that money as belonging to Archie. And his sibling. It was then that we learned Meg was pregnant.”

Prayers etc, obvs.

The Australian conservative columnist Gray Connelly, whose barbs on Twitter are sharp enough to entertain both sides of the political chasm, saw the pool footage, compared it with King Charles’ tour of Australia and launched a salvo at Haz. 

The contrast of King Charles interrupting his cancer treatment to perform royal duties on the other side of the world with his self-indulgent 40 year old wastrel son at a surf park is a very stark one … https://t.co/HmM4bgs5vH

— Gray Connolly (@GrayConnolly) October 20, 2024

“The contrast of King Charles interrupting his cancer treatment to perform royal duties on the other side of the world with his self-indulgent 40 year old wastrel son at a surf park is a very stark one …”

Comments are mostly in favour of the criticism although one wit wrote: 

“Do fuck off Gray, caught sucking the  monarchy cock again.”

Touché in this instance, yes?