Prince Harry’s Curse
Henry Charles Albert David Mountbatten-Windsor, commonly known as Prince Harry, is seemingly afflicted by a multilayered curse, with Shakespearean and Biblical overtones, that began in 1066 when William the Conqueror seized the throne from another claimant named Harold (Prince William’s nickname for Harry).
Three years later, Archbishop Aldred of York cursed the Conqueror (also known as William the Bastard) while he was ‘harrying’ England’s north using scorched earth tactics that inspired similar violence in Game of Thrones. And because the first monarch was legally and morally bankrupt, it can be argued that the institution has been cursed ever since.
Nearly all of Prince Harry’s royal namesakes were afflicted by curses, including the Angevin curse which pitted Henry the Young King against Henry II; the usurper’s curse on Henry IV; the Windsor ‘prophecy’ which doomed Henry V and Henry VI; Philippa Gregory’s ‘King’s Curse’ which killed Henry VIII’s first-born son Henry Cornwall; plus the famous Templar curse which afflicted the last five king Henrys.
Based on his ghostwritten 2023 memoir, simply titled Spare, the first layer of Prince Harry’s curse was evident on the day that he was born.
