A close friend of Prince Harry addresses rumors about whether he’s truly ‘brainwashed’ by Meghan Markle

A close friend of Prince Harry addresses rumors about whether he’s truly ‘brainwashed’ by Meghan Markle.
One of Prince Harry’s pals has let slip what he is really like behind the cameras and how he acts in the house with wife Meghan Markle.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
The Sussexes’s pal reveals what they are like away from the cameras
Prince Harry is “kind, funny and pretty damn normal” according to one of his pals who hailed the Duke’s ability to have an outstanding level of “reach across the world “.

Ahead of the Duke of Sussex’s 40th birthday on Sunday, British journalist Bryony Gordon, who’s known Harry since 2016, opened up about what he and Meghan Markle are like behind closed doors.

Ms Gordon wrote for the Mail and claimed that she’s been in contact with the Duke since the launch of The Heads Together campaign in May 2016 – then spearheaded by Prince Harry and the Prince and Princess of Wales, in a royal first attempt to end the stigma around mental health.

Since then, the journalist explained that she’s met with Harry many times, and has now come to consider him and wife Meghan friends.

She said: “Eight years ago I became friends with Prince Harry, and ever since life has been peppered with questions from people curious to know more about his character: has he been brainwashed, is he intent on bringing down the monarchy, does he smell of money, and so on and so forth.”

Prince Harry and the Prince and Princess of Wales Attend The Launch Of Heads Together Campaign
Prince Harry and the Prince and Princess of Wales launched The Heads Together campaign in 2016
She added: ” I’ve heard a lot of fairly negative things said about him, character assassinations that bear no resemblance to the man I’ve come to count as a friend, the one who cares passionately about injured veterans, and who’s done more than most to change perceptions of mental health in this country.”

Ms Gordon also revealed what the Sussexes are really like behind closed doors, as she found out after visiting them at their Montecito home just before the release of Harry’s explosive memoir, Spare.

And she said that they are “a pretty ­ordinary ­couple existing in an absolutely ­extraordinary situation.”

She explained: “I spent an afternoon at the house, the kids running around happily as we drank tea. Harry proudly showed me the DIY photo wall he’d recently ­created, featuring pictures of his mum.

“When I left, packed off by the happy couple with a jar of their homemade jam (which I then left in the back of a taxi in a jet-lagged stupor; somewhere in Los ­Angeles, a cab driver has one of the earliest batches of ­American Riviera Orchard’s ­produce), I was reminded of the fact that they are a pretty ­ordinary ­couple existing in an absolutely ­extraordinary situation.”

“There are no airs or graces with them, no desire to do anything other than protect their children from an increasingly digital world that likes nothing more than seeing the worst in people.

“A world that forgets that no ­matter how high profile a person is, they’re just doing their best, like everyone else.”

Ms Gordon concluded: “This is not what people want to hear, but it is what I’ve found, time and time again. So Happy 40th Birthday, Haz. May you ­continue to make a difference for the next 40 years, regardless of the naysayers.”