Prince Harry Made His Late-Night Show Debut (Featuring A FaceTime Cameo By Meghan Markle)

February 26, 2021 / Posted by:

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have their big 90-minute exclusive CBS interview with Oprah Winfrey scheduled for next Sunday. And normally you wouldn’t see a royal type pop into a late-night TV show segment with James Corden, but Harry isn’t a royal regular anymore, remember? So Harry made a surprise appearance on Thursday’s episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden, where he drank some tea on a Los Angeles tour bus, rapped the lyrics to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song, and talked a little bit of shit about the British press. Hey, I said a little – he’s got to save something for next Sunday with Oprah.

Harry first gets picked up on the side of the road by James, who is on an open-top tour bus. Which might be the most haunting invitation one could get. Trapped on an empty tour bus with the star of Cats, a man who loves nothing more than to belt out every song ever committed to memory, cornering you with a locked-eye stare that screams, “You better not fuck up the harmony on this show-stopper, or so help you…“. But Harry climbed aboard anyway. There they drank tea from a tea cart that crashed into Harry’s leg after the bus hit the skids. While on the bus, they talked about Harry and Meghan’s choice to step down from their positions within the Royal Family, which he stresses wasn’t “walking away” from his family, but doing what needed to be done to protect his own mental health. via People:

“It was never walking away, it was stepping back rather than stepping down. It was a really difficult environment as I think a lot of people saw. We all know what the British press can be like. It was destroying my mental health. This is toxic, so I did what any husband and what any father would do which is ‘I need to get my family out of here,’ but we never walked away.”

He also kind of, sort of addressed Buckingham Palace’s claim that Harry and Meghan wouldn’t be able to serve the public in the same way as they were as senior royals, by telling James Corden that he plans to be the same man he was when he was still a working member of the Royal Family.

“Whatever decisions are made on that side I will never walk away,” Harry said in reference to the royal family. “I’ll always be contributing. My life is public service so wherever I am in the world it’s going to be the same thing.”

And speaking of Netflix, Harry did a little press for The Crown, a show the rest of Harry’s relatives skip quickly past on their way to a new episode of Nailed It. But Harry likes it!

“They don’t pretend to be news. It’s fictional. But it’s loosely based on the truth. Of course it’s not strictly accurate. It gives you a rough idea of what that lifestyle, what the pressures of putting duty and service above family and everything else, what can come from that. I’m way more comfortable with The Crown than I am seeing the stories written about my family or my wife or myself because it’s the difference between [The Crown] is obviously fiction, take it how you will, but this is being reported on as fact because you’re supposedly news. I have a real issue with that.”

About 5 minutes into the 17-minute-long segment and while hanging outside of the real-life house from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, James grabs Harry’s phone and asks how to find “The Duchess.” That’s when The Duchess revealed that her nickname for Harry is Haz.

James Corden: Haz? I didn’t know we were calling you Haz now.

Prince Harry: Well, you’re not my wife.

I’m sure the British press is already working very hard to create a headline pun that reads: “Royal HAZ-been Crashes Bel Air Enclave to Bother Hard-Working Judge and His Family, Including Trouble-Prone Nephew from West Philadelphia.

James and Harry finished their afternoon visit with a Spartan obstacle course. The whole time James freaks out about how fast Harry is knocking out the tasks. James, why are you surprised? Harry narrowly escaped from the mental and emotional prison that is being stuck in the Royal Family – 90 seconds in an obstacle course is nothing!

Pic: YouTube

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