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Prince Harry can empathize more than most with what Brooklyn Beckham is going through as he publicly speaks out against his family — and the former royal has “quietly stepped into a mentoring role,” Rob Shuter has reported on his Naughty But Nice Substack.
“Harry sees a lot of himself in Brooklyn,” an insider told Shuter for a story published on Wednesday, January 21. “He doesn’t want Brooklyn to make the same emotional and strategic mistakes he made when he first broke away [from the royal family].”
To that end, the Duke of Sussex, 41, has urged the chef, 26, to “protect his mental health” and think carefully about what he says next about his parents, Victoria and David, in public following his bombshell comments.
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Brooklyn accused his parents of leaking stories to the press, trying to ruin his relationship with wife Nicola Peltz, 31, and humiliating him at his wedding. “I do not want to reconcile with my family. I’m not being controlled, I’m standing up for myself for the first time in my life,” he wrote on a series of Instagram Stories on Monday, January 19.
“Harry told him: don’t burn everything at once,” a source told Shuter. “You only get one chance to tell your story the right way.”
One way to do that? Insiders told Shuter that “Harry has connected Brooklyn with his own book publisher for a “potential tell-all.”
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But Harry has warned Brooklyn to focus on truth, not revenge, insiders told Shuter, and to be prepared for the fallout.
“You lose people. You get misunderstood. And once it’s out there, you can’t take it back,” one insider noted of Harry, who is now trying to reconcile with his father, King Charles III, but remains estranged from his brother, Prince William.
“Harry’s trying to help him survive the part no one prepares you for,” added the insider.