MAUREEN CALLAHAN: Prince Harry is bleating about family reconciliation - why ... trends now
At least we got a break over the holidays, right?
Fresh off that six-hour Netflix whinge-a-thon — which began streaming just three weeks ago — Prince Harry is back with yet another round of interviews, the trailers for both dropping Monday morning.
Care to guess the subject matter?
You know, right before Harry and Meghan's sit-down with Oprah Winfrey — two years ago this March — the couple stated that that interview would be their 'last word.' They would have nothing else to say, and would everyone, please, just respect their privacy?
Then they wonder why the public at large has trouble believing anything they say.
Their pals in the media, however — that's another story, as we're seeing with Tom Bradby, a friend of H&M, and Anderson Cooper.
The UK's ITV and CBS News' 60 Minutes are breathlessly promoting new, ostensibly bombshell interviews.
Finally — this time, really, promise and pinky swear — will Harry tell 'his' truth? Will he spill all the gruesome, gory details — you know, stuff we hadn't heard in their six episodes on Netflix, the Oprah interview, Meghan's podcast, 'Finding Freedom,' Meghan's cover stories in The Cut and Variety, or any of their numerous leaks to the media?
If past is prologue, that's highly unlikely.
Now Harry's out flogging his forthcoming memoir, and like everything else the Sussexes have tried to sell us, it looks to be light on substance, heavy on victimhood, devoid of personal accountability, and, worse than any of that — hackneyed, trite, and unoriginal.
Finally — this time, really, promise and pinky swear — will Harry tell 'his' truth? If past is prologue, that's highly unlikely.
The UK's ITV (above) and CBS News' 60 Minutes are breathlessly promoting new, ostensibly bombshell interviews.
In other words: In keeping with Brand Sussex, it's an overall disappointment.
When your publisher is slashing your book's price by 30 percent as a pre-sale promotion before it hits the stands, it seems like your book is in trouble. When no major print outlet is running an extract ahead of publication — well, that's a clue there's nothing really in it.
Harry should have been on the cover of People this week, a four-page sampling inside.
Instead: Nothing.
Harry seems unfamiliar with the concept of diminishing returns. He also seems unfamiliar with the inanity of doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
'I would like to get my father back. I would like to have my brother back.'
This is the headline from Harry's interview with Tom Bradby, a snippet that also contains more vitriol towards — whom else? — his father and brother.
'They feel as though it is better to keep us somehow as the villains,' he said. 'They have shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile.'
Harry and Meghan need absolutely no help in looking like the villains here. They're doing a great job of that all on their own. It actually may be their only real measurable success.
Once upon a time, these two had so much goodwill. Harry was once the favored prince, considered more charismatic, down-to-earth, freewheeling. Now we see what a great job the palace did in managing his image.
And we see just how much gratitude Harry has for all that hard work: None.
As the Netflix reality show made clear, these two are spoiled megalomaniacs marinating in spite and jealousy, attempting to slither up the greasy poles of fame (Beyoncé texted me!), laughable awards (a humanitarian honor hosted by a celebrity
