Prince Harry
Criticism has risen for his luxury trip to the polo tournament in Colorado
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Prince Harry enjoyed his first game of polo in a long time in Aspen, Colorado. But his trip to the American vacation spot for a charitable cause was not all applauded. Critical voices accuse the Royal of hypocrisy.
Prince Harry, 36, got back into the saddle for the first time in a long time on Thursday, August 19, 2021 and paid a surprise visit to a charity polo tournament for his Sentebale Foundation in Colorado, USA. In the chic holiday resort of Aspen, the new father of two swung the polo bat at the side of his good friend Nacho Figueras and proved that he still feels at home on the grass and especially on horseback.
Prince Harry took a friend’s private jet
Now, however, critics have spoken out who accuse the 36-year-old of hypocrisy. The reason: Prince Harry boarded a luxury private jet for his return trip after the charity event. The plane with 20 seats, which according to “The Sun” belongs to one of his Polo friends, Marc Ganzi, is said to have a value of over 50 million euros and emitted around ten tons of CO2 on the two-hour flight to Harry’s adopted home. After landing in Santa Barbara, he is said to have been brought back in a car to his estate in Montecito, California, where his wife Meghan, 40, and two children Archie, 2, and Lilibet, two months, were waiting for him.
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Prince Harry referred to as “hypocritical”
“That seems extremely hypocritical after all his speeches about climate change,” says expert and Royal author Tom Quinn, accusing: “Harry seems to see himself as someone who leads the rest of the world, but whose own behavior does not matter. ” This is a huge weak point.
Prince Harry on action against climate change
After all, it was only a few months ago that Harry spoke insistently about climate change, describing it as one of the “most pressing problems we face”. “When kids grow up in today’s world, it’s pretty depressing,” he said in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, 67, for Apple TV. “Depending on where you live, your home country is on fire, it is under water or houses or forests are sunk into the ground.”
His father, Prince Charles, 72, recently spoke about the urgency of the matter and told British business leaders that they had to help, otherwise our planet would be “done for”.
However, it is not the first time that Prince Harry has received criticism for such an action. In 2019, he is said to have made four flights with private jets within eleven days, one of which went to a climate summit in Sicily.
Sources used: thesun.co.uk, express.co.uk, dailymail.co.uk