SH0CK: “Meghan Markle has turned Prince Harry into a whinging puppet”
Prince Harry’s former pal has shared his real thoughts of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Harry and Meghan have been slammed by a former pal (Image: Getty)
Former top London nightclub owner Howard Spooner has hit out at his former pal Prince Harry, who used to attend his exclusive club, Public, in Chelsea, which he opened in 2010.
Spooner, who also ran famous club Embargo and Leopard Lounge in west London, would welcome celebrities and royals through his doors almost every night. Now, he has turned to a change of pace and runs The George Hotel in the Isle of Wight, as well as the Sexy Lobster restaurant in Bournemouth. But he told Express.co.uk what Prince Harry, 41, was like on a night out. The pair crossed paths over the years, with Spooner claiming the prince was “a polite, nice chap” but said things changed after a few drinks.
“He had a very tight group of peers, and I think they were just too entitled and they just saw everybody else as slightly beneath them,” he said. “He was just a sort of loveable buffoon really, just naughty, naughty.” Spooner then hit out at Harry after his decision to leave the royal family for a life in California, as he dismissed suggestions that the Duke had genuinely changed since meeting Meghan Markle.
“I don’t believe he has changed in the slightest,” he said. “I think that he and his wife manufacture everything, then he’s dropped everybody, reinvented himself. It’s all just an act.”
Turning his attention to the Duchess of Sussex, Spooner described Meghan as “this narcissistic, crazy, power-hungry woman” and claimed she has become the driving force behind the couple’s public image.
“He’s managed by his wife,” Spooner said. “He’s just a puppet playing a role that she has written for him.”
The former club owner also criticised Harry’s long-running campaign for publicly funded security when visiting Britain, arguing the prince should pay for his own protection.
Howard Spooner swapped nightclubs for hotels and restaurants (Image: Sexy Lobster)
“He’s got plenty of money for your own security,” Spooner said. “Get your own security, stop whinging, be a man about stuff, stop whinging like a little baby.”
He added: “He just doesn’t do anything for the country anymore apart from complaining about it.”
Spooner also hit out at Harry for “abandoning many people from his former life”, in a similar way to Meghan, as he said his new “woke” public persona bears little resemblance to the man he once knew.
“I just think it’s really sad. I bet he doesn’t contact any of his old friends because he dumped them. They’ve continued being the same people, and while they were sometimes entitled private school boys, at least they’re themselves.”
