By Paul Homewood
When you’re in a hole, stop digging!
I was not going to comment about Harry’s latest private jet jaunt to Nice, just days after flying to Ibiza. Unfortunately for him, Elton John has put his size twelves in, and made matters worse for the Prince!
Sir Elton John by his own admission counted Princess Diana as “one of my dearest friends” and famously and movingly sang at her funeral.
On Monday, the rock star leapt to the defence of her youngest son, in an attempt to shield the Duke of Sussex and his wife from “relentless and untrue assassinations” amid allegations of hypocrisy over private jet flights taken by the couple.
In putting a metaphorical arm around the Duke and Duchess, Sir Elton disclosed that he had paid for Prince Harry and his wife to fly on a private jet to his home in the south of France. He said Prince Harry, his wife and their son Archie needed the “safety and tranquillity” offered by his palatial villa on the French Riviera.
Sir Elton insisted he and his husband David Furnish had made “an appropriate contribution” to a company that specialises in offsetting carbon emissions. The flights, said Sir Elton, were as a consequence carbon neutral.
The Duke and Duchess were photographed with their three-month-old son arriving in Nice in the south of France on a £15 million Cessna 680 Citation Sovereign jet on Wednesday. They left France three days later on Saturday afternoon.
It was, according to reports, their fourth private jet flight in 11 days – they had previously flown to and from Ibiza to celebrate the duchess’s 38th birthday – prompting cries of hypocrisy. The couple have campaigned on green issues and earlier this month the prince said he and his wife would have “two children, maximum” as part of their contribution to saving the environment
In a series of emotional postings on Twitter, Sir Elton said on Monday: “I am deeply distressed by today’s distorted and malicious account in the press surrounding the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s private stay at my home in Nice last week.
“Prince Harry’s Mother, Diana Princess Of Wales was one of my dearest friends. I feel a profound sense of obligation to protect Harry and his family from the unnecessary press intrusion that contributed to Diana’s untimely death.”
The singer, who loaned the couple the use of his home on the French Riviera, went on: “After a hectic year continuing their hard work and dedication to charity, David and I wanted the young family to have a private holiday inside the safety and tranquillity of our home. To maintain a high level of much-needed protection, we provided them with a private jet flight.
“To support Prince Harry’s commitment to the environment, we ensured their flight was carbon neutral, by making the appropriate contribution to Carbon Footprint
.”
The idea that it is OK to fly around the world because Elton John has paid a carbon penance fee, estimated by the Mail at around £120, is not only crass, it is grossly insulting to us mere mortals, who don’t have such money to throw around.
For Harry and his showbiz chums, £120 is mere bagatelle. If saving the planet is so important, surely they should not just stop flying around in private jets, but also spend some of their millions planting trees or whatever else the green gods demand.
As for this “hectic year of hard work”, what about ordinary families? They work their socks off all year round, bringing up kids and worrying how they will pay the next lot of bills. Don’t they deserve two weeks holiday in the sun, something which Harry’s eco-warrior friends would like to put a stop to, or at least price out of reach?
Final word goes to Dellers:
Well, I hate to criticise a guy who has risked his life on two tours of duty in Afghanistan, first as an infantryman attached to the Gurkhas; subsequently as a helicopter pilot. But I do think that if Prince Harry is not to lay himself open to the charge of being a rank hypocrite, he needs to do one of two things.
Either
a) dial down the environmental proselytising, avoid regurgitating brainless eco-drivel he has picked up second hand from an autistic 16-year old girl, a doddery old nature TV presenter and his barking Dad, and instead stick to stuff he knows about: shooting pheasant; playing polo; taking out Taliban with hellfire missiles.
or
b) stop travelling by private jet
I have said before that I believe Harry has been terribly badly advised here. I suspect he has been told to make himself “relevant” to today’s society, hence all of the politically correct causes he and Meghan are espousing.
Unfortunately, surrounded by his luvvie friends, he seems blissfully unaware that he is simply making a fool of himself.
Maybe somebody will have a strong word with him, and I can stop writing stories like this!
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August 21, 2019 at 11:15AM
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