{"id":571902,"date":"2026-08-17T17:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/571902\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T17:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:38:09","slug":"joe-marler-reveals-where-he-stands-on-prince-harry-after-podcast-interview-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/571902\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Marler reveals where he stands on Prince Harry after podcast interview | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Podcaster and Celebrity Traitors star Joe Marler has revealed exactly what he thought of Prince Harry<\/a> following their meeting last month. During his visit to the UK in July, Harry made an appearance on the Joe Marler Will See You Now podcast – with the 36-year-old making his stance known on the ongoing royal feud.<\/p>\n

Harry travelled to the UK, where he attended various work commitments and a meeting with King Charles. His wife, Meghan Markle<\/a>, and children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, also joined him later in the week and attended the meeting with the King.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Mirror<\/a>, former rugby star Joe spoke positively about the podcast and the royal.<\/p>\n

He said: “We put some prep in, but it crept up on us, and I was nervous, thinking about the whole thing and also the polarising public opinion of it. Jake [Bhardwaj] just said, \u2018Calm down and think about what we want to achieve from having him as a guest.\u2019 I knew I liked him. I was Team Harry, if there were teams or whatever.”<\/p>\n

After 17 years as a professional rugby player, Joe said he knew having Harry as a podcast guest would cause some backlash.<\/p>\n

He said: “I knew that there would be some level of backlash to whatever question or whatever answer he gave. But I didn\u2019t want that to stop me and Jake from being genuine and in the moment.<\/p>\n

“I wanted him and us to be present and to have the experience. I didn\u2019t want to overthink things or not ask a particular question because of how it might be received. But the level of vitriol that comes with him, the social media backlash… What is the matter with some people?”<\/p>\n

After being introduced by his full name, “Henry Charles Albert David,” the royal was asked whether there was any chance of shortening it – to which he simply said, “Harry”.<\/p>\n

He was later asked about what he referred to as his occupation, and rather than leading with his royal title, he answered: “Full-time dad, British Army veteran…”<\/p>\n

Harry delved into a variety of different topics during their chat, including fatherhood and mental health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Podcaster and Celebrity Traitors star Joe Marler has revealed exactly what he thought of Prince Harry following their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,281878,281877,111,139,69,3578,3583,281876,3164],"class_list":["post-571902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-joe-marler-harry","tag-joe-marler-podcast","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prince-harry","tag-prince-harry-latest","tag-prince-harry-podcast","tag-royal-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}