Critics are classifying the timing of Prince Harry’s recent interview with James Corden as “useless” for stealing attention from Queen Elizabeth’s COVID-19 vaccine push.
“When the Queen speaks, as she did about the vaccine, it is accepted that she has a free field,” a source told the Daily Mail about Harry’s appearance on Thursday on “The Late Late Show With James Corden”
News of Harry’s evening chat filled the British media on Friday morning, hours after the Queen was trying to give the vaccine a booster shot with an address in which she encouraged the UK public to be injected, according to with Sky News.
She even tried to get attention by talking about her own health problems – an extraordinary step she rarely takes – and saying that when she took the injection “it didn’t hurt at all”.
Royalty expert Robert Jobson believes that the moment of the predictable fall of the appearance on Harry’s talk show has trampled on the Queen’s important pandemic message.
“Time is everything, it is not,” he told the Daily Mail. “On the day that the Queen sent out a very, very important message about the whole nation receiving the jab, that message was kind of blurred by Harry, the man who wants a private life, talking about his private life again. ”
Harry’s conversation with Corden was filmed before the Queen confirmed the departure of Harry and his wife Meghan Markle as members of senior royalty.
During his television tour of Los Angeles with Corden, Harry shared that he never intended to completely abandon his position.
“He was never moving away – he was backing up, instead of backing up,” he told Corden. He also claimed that the British press did damage to his mental health.
Corden could have broadcast the interview on Thursday in an attempt to beat Oprah Winfrey with the punch, as the media icon also blocked an interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
“While the Queen encourages us to think of others, Prince Harry walks in Los Angeles and makes the absurd claim that he has not strayed from royalty,” royal expert Phil Dampier told the Daily Mail. “What planet is he on? Hollywood, I suppose. “