Do we like Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex?
Our score: 8 out of 10. He has backed trans youth and wounded service members with his time and money, and his one real stain is a public charity dispute that a regulator blamed on everyone.
Harry is the King's younger son who has spent years living outside the royal fold, and he still insists he belongs in it. In April he told ITV News he would always be part of the royal family and that he was in Ukraine doing “the very thing I was born to do”.
The press fights are the big thread. In December 2023 a judge found his phone was probably hacked by Mirror Group Newspapers “to a modest extent” and awarded him £140,600. His case against the Daily Mail's publisher went the other way this July, when the High Court found he and his co-claimants had not proved their allegations.
On the harm test, nothing nasty from him turned up. In 2019 his Heads Together mental health charity brought the trans youth charity Mermaids into its roundtable work, and Mermaids' CEO said he had called their work “amazing” in 2017. We found no hostile words about LGBTQ+ people, women or migrants, and his late-2025 work on children's online safety has been about protecting families.
Not everything is flattering. Biographer Tom Bower's March 2026 book alleges nasty royal infighting, and Harry and Meghan's spokesperson called it a “deranged conspiracy”. Separately, the Heritage Foundation sued in a US court over his visa file, alleging he may have hidden past drug use on the application. That case's records fight was still murky in what we read.
The good stuff is real. In September 2025 he made a surprise train trip to Kyiv to support wounded troops, and the Archewell Foundation gave US$500,000 to projects for injured children from Gaza and Ukraine. He said the aim was to help the recovery process. He has done this kind of quiet, unglamorous work for years.
So would we support him? Yes. He is a flawed bloke in a very public family feud, but he keeps using his name for veterans, injured kids and people who rarely get a royal on their side.