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Ought to Prince Harry be stripped of his royal titles?
The Duke of Sussex joined Stephen Colbert final week, spoofing this yr’s crop of Christmas movies and taking some digs at Donald Trump.
The viewers liked it — with these within the studio giving Harry a standing ovation.
In the meantime, Harry’s most vocal critics are calling for him to lose his titles.
In keeping with Prince Harry, he desires to get into appearing to capitalize on the American obsession with royals (and Christmas). It is a joke. (Picture Credit score: CBS)
Not everybody loved Prince Harry’s cameo on ‘The Late Show’
On Wednesday, December 3, Prince Harry appeared in a visitor spot on The Late Present with Stephen Colbert.
Colbert had simply rattled off an inventory of Hallmark (and Hallmark-adjacent) movies that linked Christmas and fictional royalty, often as an American encounters a European royal by likelihood and falls in love.
Harry pretended to have stumbled into the studio whereas seeking to audition.
“Well, you Americans are obsessed with Christmas movies and you’re clearly obsessed with royalty, so why not?” he quipped in the course of the scripted second.
After Colbert feigned to disagree, Harry famous: “I heard you elected a king.”
Harry’s joke about America having “elected a king” was a reference to Donald Trump, whose weird conduct and authoritarian rule have each invited comparisons to the insanity of King George.
(George III is Harry’s grandfather occasions six and occasions 5, as a result of European royalty actually is like that)
For the file, the prince additionally took a jab at Paramount for having paid an 8-figure “settlement,” which critics have understandably characterised as a bribe, to appease Trump.
This is identical firm that canceled The Late Present, which nearly everybody — together with Trump — believes was executed to cater to his needs.
As we reported final week, most American viewers — whether or not they have been within the viewers or on social media — loved Harry’s royal cameo. However, as we additionally reported, some of us throughout the pond lashed out with rage.
The dialog between Stephen Colbert and Prince Harry arrange for a simple political dig. (Picture Credit score: CBS)
Ought to Prince Harry lose his titles over this?
For those who look by way of Prince Harry’s outspoken critics on social media, essentially the most unhinged of the group known as for him to lose his titles.
The Royalist echoed this name, writing that Harry making digs at Trump constitutes a possible diplomatic disaster.
Ostensibly, it is because the British monarch acts as ceremonial head of state. So whereas it’s not the identical because the Prime Minister dissing one other head of state, it’s maybe extra akin to if a First Girl have been trash-talking a world chief.
Nicely, no. That may be if Charles have been roasting Trump on his apparent cognitive decline or his MRI boasts or how he retains harming the financial system for no motive. That is extra like if, what, Tiffany Trump made a scripted joke about Keir Starmer.
The important thing distinction is that nobody — least of all her father — cares what Tiffany says or does. Sadly for Harry, there are lots of people who observe his each transfer with the intention to put him on blast.
He’s proper behind me, isn’t he? Stephen Colbert stunned the December 3 viewers with Prince Harry. (Picture Credit score: CBS)
To be clear, among the reactions to Harry displaying up stemmed from individuals who by no means noticed the footage.
There are individuals who merely learn a headline and assumed that they knew the article’s contents. Some didn’t even try this.
Misinformation additionally unfold on social media, because it tends to do. Some believed that Harry had sat down for an interview wherein he’d weighed in on politics. That’s merely not what occurred.
Some critics don’t anticipate King Charles and even eventual King William to strip Harry of his titles.
There have been those that known as upon Parliament to take this into their very own palms.
Is Prince Harry misplaced? No. However he pretended to be for a bit with Stephen Colbert on the December 3, 2025 episode. (Picture Credit score: CBS)
This isn’t actually about diplomacy, is it?
Insofar as Donald Trump is constant about something, he doesn’t appear to have any curiosity in deporting or in any other case waging a marketing campaign of terror in opposition to Prince Harry. He’s mentioned as a lot.
Clearly, Trump is a infamous bobblehead — somebody who nods together with the opinions of whoever he final frolicked with. So if a Harry-hating royalist spoke pleasantly to him for lengthy sufficient, he’d probably change his thoughts.
Realistically, the individuals calling for Harry to lose his titles in all probability aren’t really involved about diplomatic issues. These are Brits who detest Harry for marrying Meghan Markle and for undermining the British monarchy.
However, his look on Colbert gave American viewers another reason to understand him. And it gave royalists their newest ammo to fireplace at him.
From the second that he was born, nobody has been “normal” about Harry. A few many years in the past, he was a intercourse image. Now, his residence nation has all however declared him anathema. None of that is his fault, and none of that is honest.
