Two years after Prince Harry expressed horror at his older brother Prince William’s “alarming baldness” in his e book, “Spare,” the famed London hairdresser who minimize Harry’s “thick, lush” purple locks as a boy, stated it’s time that he regarded within the mirror and cope with his personal encroaching baldness.
Sam McKnight provided some blunt, unsolicited recommendation to the “aging,” California-based Duke of Sussex in an essay for the the Day by day Telegraph. McKnight, who additionally labored as a stylist for Harry and William’s late mom Princess Diana, stated that Harry ought to both get a hair transplant or embrace his baldness, as William has executed and minimize what’s left of his hair very quick.
“I don’t think you lose your looks because you go bald,” wrote McKnight, who’s additionally identified for his work with celebrities and supermodels, the Day by day Beast stated. “You have to embrace it. Or you have to make the decision not to embrace it, and have a hair transplant.”
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 04: Andrew Ross Sorkin and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, communicate onstage throughout The New York Instances Dealbook Summit 2024 at Jazz at Lincoln Middle on December 04, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Pictures for The New York Instances)
Harry’s present technique, conserving that “fluff” on his head, is “just horrible,” McKnight stated.
“That fluff on his head is like a newborn chick,” McKnight bluntly stated. “It says 1950s geography teacher. It doesn’t make a man look good.” McKnight noticed that 40-year-old Harry in any other case appears to be like tall, lean, match and in his prime. “It’s been driving me mad for years, and I don’t know why he hasn’t had a hair transplant yet or shaved it all off.”
Knight noticed that Harry’s cowl picture for his 2023 best-selling memoir “Spare” regarded “really retouched,” particularly within the hair division. McKnight stated it was as if the Montecito-based son of King Charles III feels self-conscious about dropping his adolescent “mop of red, glorious hair.” McKnight stated Harry’s remaining “little wisps” disempower him.
ANGUS, SCOTLAND – FEBRUARY 06: Prince William, Duke of Rothesay laughs as he attends a roundtable hosted by the Farm Security Basis (Yellow Wellies), a charity working all through the UK to deal with the attitudes and behaviours to farm security and poor psychological well being within the subsequent technology of farmers throughout a go to to East Scryne Farm on February 06, 2025 in Angus, Scotland. (Photograph by Steve MacDougall – Pool/Getty Pictures)
“You see people and you think: ‘You’re hanging onto these little wisps, let it go and free yourself,’” McKnight wrote. “I know it’s a psychological thing, hanging onto the wisps, but now’s the time to let it go.”
McKnight stated he understood, first hand, how tough it’s to “let go” of the thought of youth, which, for males, will be symbolized by a thick head of hair. Now 69, McKnight stated he started to lose his personal hair in his early 30s. Males within the British royal household even have been identified to begin dropping their hair of their 30s.
The hairdresser additionally took to activity Harry’s spouse, Meghan Markle, a former TV actor with entry to loads of Hollywood stylists, for not intervening and inspiring her husband to get higher recommendation for his hair, together with a potential hair transplant.
“I’m surprised his wife hasn’t done that yet,” McKnight wrote. “He’s in LA, he’s in the best place for a hair transplant. I’m sure some of his friends have really good ones, and he’s got plenty of time on his hands. He could have it done and hide away for a month, no one will notice. Nowadays who cares? It doesn’t matter.”
