Terrible Prince Harry prediction comes true

A month before the 2016 Dean Street Townhouse drinks that would change the course of royal history, drinks involving Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex and a certain Suits actress, he granted a rare interview to the Sunday Times’ royal editor Roya Nikkhah.
During the sit down conducted at Kensington Palace, and ahead of him travelling to Florida

for the Invictus Games, Harry said: “I’m in this privileged position and I will use it for as long as I can, or until I become boring, or until George ends up becoming more interesting”.

That George reference created lots of noise – it felt hugely refreshing to hear a spare seemingly so sanguine and at peace with what lay ahead for him. (Let’s all enjoy a wry ‘hah!’ shall we?)

While George is a long way off being “more interesting” than his uncle, what Harry told Nikkhah next is spooky.

The duke said: “There’s nothing worse than going through a period in your life where you’re making a massive difference and then suddenly, for whatever reason it is – whether it’s media or the public perception of you – you drop off. You want to make a difference but nobody’s listening to you.”

Talk about accidentally manifesting something. Harry, circa 2024, is a man who has “dropped off”.

Call it irony or a cruel twist of fate or proof really are “the stars’s tennis balls” but the one thing that Harry clearly feared back then has ended up coming true, only it was not George or his inevitable slide down the line of succession that caused it. This was his own