Last Thursday, Prince Harry presented an award to an American veteran named Elizabeth Marks. Harry is friends with Sergeant First Class Marks – I remember being so moved by her story, which I heard because she was an Invictus competitor. Back in 2016, Harry presented her with a medal for Invictus, and she immediately wanted to donate the medal to raise funds for the British hospital where she had been treated. Harry respects the hell out of her. Well, Sgt. Marks was given the Soldier of the Year award by the Military Times last week, and they asked Harry to present the award remotely, from his home. Harry wore a dark suit and his British medals, per the Telegraph: his Operational Service Medal for Afghanistan, his Golden Jubilee Medal, Diamond Jubilee Medal, and Platinum Jubilee Medal.
Can you even imagine finding fault with any part of this? If you can, you’re part of the deranger contingent in the British media. They’re simultaneously mad that Harry wore his British medals for an American presentation to an American AND they’re mad that Harry isn’t wearing his coronation medal.
The Duke of Sussex appears to have snubbed his father by opting not to wear his Coronation medal alongside others as he presented a military award. Prince Harry donned four medals to record a video of himself honouring a soldier from the back door of his California home but the one featuring effigies of the King and Queen was notably absent.
His spokesperson declined to comment on why he did not wear the Coronation medal that is believed to have been awarded to him on his father’s accession last year.
The medal, made of nickel silver, was given to 400 recipients involved in the Coronation ceremonies and processions as well as serving members of the Armed Forces and emergency service workers.
Similarly, Harry did not wear the medal when he delivered a video monologue for Stand Up For Heroes in New York last November. Relations between the Duke and the King remain strained, although is believed to have improved.
I know we’re supposed to say “good for him, I hope he IS snubbing his father.” But ten bucks says that Harry probably didn’t even get the coronation medal. His dogsh-t father evicted Harry from his home, yanked his security and had concerns about how dark Harry’s children would be. That man did not give his ginger son a coronation medal.
I also looked through the photo archives of Harry’s military-adjacent or state-function appearances in the past two years – these are the same medals he’s worn to everything. He wore the same medal setup to the Jubbly church service in June 2022. He wore the same medals to his grandmother’s funeral. He wore the same medals to his father’s coronation, and he wore the same medals to the Stand Up for Heroes remote appearance last year. What’s more likely: that Harry is making a conscious effort to snub his father specifically with which medals he wears OR that he just has a medal bar with everything organized and he just wears the same bar every time?
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images, screepcaps from The Telegraph & Stand Up to Heroes.
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Hundred percent! He isn’t wearing it because he wasn’t given one in the first place.
How would he get the medal? He wasn’t at the coronation long enough to even put down his hanger. So someone from the palace would have had to send it to montecito. And I’m guessing someone from the palace conveniently forgot. Or maybe the medal got lost in the mail 🙄
That was my thought as well. They’re saying Harry is snubbing Charles and it is going to come out that Charles actually snubbed Harry. Then the British media will say “Well good on Charles!”
No Chuckles is a putz and didn’t give him one.
That’s exactly what I think too. He was treated disgracefully at the Coronation. He’s as much the King’s son as William yet he was relegated to the third row. At least he arrived in time.
The ROTA is floundering. This is one of their dumbest moments. He wears what he’s got. The end.
The medals are arranged on a bar, so Harry has just kept his medals as is. You do make a good point, that Harry probably didn’t receive a Coronation medal, I really wish he would confirm that.
Now if his team makes a comment about him not receiving one, they are gonna write how he is crying / moaning about a medal and lick Charles’s behind for not giving him a medal. That’s why you don’t play their games because there is no winning strategy. It is rigged from the start.
Unfortunately I agree with you. No matter what H and M do it will be turned against tbem . This must be so frustrating for them both; they can’t even defend themselves without being accused of ” whining “.
I don’t think they care anymore 😎 the whole world can see that Meghan and Harry have moved on 😎
Harry has great respect for the monarchy not necessarily its members, so if he isn’t wearing one I guess he wasn’t given
Maybe he didn’t get one. But, he served under QE’s reign. Maybe he feels those are the earned medals. QE is who he said was his commander in chief.
He went to the conanation. That should be enough. And, yes, he probably never received the 🏅. He extends grace to his father over and over again. If he had the 🏅, he would wear it.
I hate gambling but I would place a bet that Prince Harry never received any medal from his father’s staff or his father himself. That being said I am glad he isn’t wearing a KC3 medal because his reign is definitely cursed, best to not wear that kind of negativity around.
A cursed reign, for sure, but only a fraction of the cursed that Huevo’s will be.
How rich. Didn’t The Firm ban Prince Harry from wearing his military medals to some event? The prince who served 10 years for his country, the Apache helicopter pilot whose legacy is secured with the Invictus Games and Sentabale? I hope good King Harry doesn’t even hear the latest criticism. Losers.
He might feel that displaying four medals is enough and that tacking another one on would be too much on his suit coat. It might be different if he was allowed to wear a uniform.
This article exists because 1. Harry continues to be respected in the military community and they’re big mad they can’t take that away ( see also the DM article they’ve published again saying he was wrong to say the number of people he’s killed).
2. Because last week’s royal honors for Camilla, Wills and wife were laughed at and they need to deflect.