{"id":190937,"date":"2025-12-14T06:19:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T06:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/190937\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T06:19:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T06:19:03","slug":"prince-harry-at-a-loss-as-he-plans-to-spend-christmas-in-montecito-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/190937\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry &#8216;at a loss&#8217; as he plans to spend Christmas in Montecito | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking exclusively to <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"http:\/\/express.co.uk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Express.co.uk<\/a>, royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams said: \u201cHarry\u2019s been an extra twice in the last week, once in the critically excoriated With Love, Meghan and the other on Stephen Colbert\u2019s The Late Show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe former was pretty meaningless although we learnt what foods he doesn\u2019t like. The latter was silly and it wasn\u2019t wise to mock <a href=\"https:\/\/express.co.uk\/latest\/donald-trump\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about Harry\u2019s speech at the business event on Friday, in which he made a joke about the royals, Mr Fitzwilliams continued: \u201cThis is pretty harmless and actually rather funny.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe King won\u2019t mind as it was light-hearted fun and we all love Downton, but Harry seems at a loss as he isn\u2019t actually doing very much. Their (Harry and Meghan\u2019s) Netflix contract has been altered, he has lost Sentebale, and whereas there is nothing wrong with a bit of humour, it\u2019s time he did something serious as he used to, when he was a working royal!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Harry may not have had many work-related engagements recently, he is set to have a busy few weeks ahead.<\/p>\n<p>As parents of two young children, Harry and his wife Meghan Markle will no doubt be busy buying and wrapping Christmas presents, as well as decorating the house for the festive season ahead of the big day.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed they will be spending Christmas in America, with reports suggesting they <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2117118\/royal-family-prince-harry-christmas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have not been invited to Sandringham<\/a> to spend Christmas with the Royal Family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk, royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams said: \u201cHarry\u2019s been an extra twice in the last week,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,7424,102571,102573,102574,102575,102572],"class_list":["post-190937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-prince-harry","tag-prince-harry-appearances","tag-prince-harry-christmas","tag-prince-harry-montecito","tag-prince-harry-royal-family","tag-prince-harry-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}