Prince Harry lecturing on carbon footprints, then takes 3 private jet flights in 8 days

Sir Elton John has defended the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's use of private jets - and said he paid to carbon offset their trip to his French home. The singer said he provided Prince Harry, Meghan and their son Archie with his private plane to "maintain a high level of much-needed protection".

In a message posted on social media, Sir Elton said: "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. "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 tranquility of our home. "To maintain a high level of much-needed protection, we provided them with a private jet flight."

Sir Elton urged the press to stop the "relentless and untrue assassinations on their character that are spuriously crafted on an almost daily basis".

Comedian Ellen DeGeneres tweeted that the couple were "the most down-to-earth, compassionate people". "Imagine being attacked for everything you do, when all you're trying to do is make the world better," she said.

Labour MP David Lammy tweeted his support for Sir Elton, adding: "The hounding of Harry and Meghan is becoming a witch-hunt replete with nasty racial and xenophobic overtones".

Ken Wharfe, a former royal protection officer who worked with Diana, Princess of Wales, told The Times that royals used to fly by Birtish Airways. Wharfe dismissed claims that private jets are necessary for security reasons, asserting that ‘BA security[...] are used to working with VIPs’, calling the Duke's conduct 'hypocritical'.

The irony has not been lost on a number of public commentators. Following the Google conference, which saw such illustrious names as Barack Obama and Leonardo Dicaprio flocking to Sicily for the event, BBC presenter Andrew Neil highlighted that attendees ‘came in 114 private jets and a flotilla of super yachts. The conference is on global warming.’

What everyone has to remember is that No-Markle has a massive sense of entitlement (for a Z-List celebrity), and her laughable Virtue-Signalling and Pretendy Activism soon disappear when the opportunity of privilege and luxury appear.

Sensible people pointed this out virtually on Day 1 of her entry to royalty, but naturally they were called 'WAAAAAAAAYYYCISTS" for their trouble.

He was mentioning the carbon tax charges.
Its like you waste food and say so what I paid for it.

do as harry says not as he does !

THey cheeky git used to fly around in jet turbine powered helicopters often multiple times a day. He knows no shame.

Trump is a very generous man who houses migrants in enviromentally friendly naturally air conditioned cages, it didn't help his profile with the Green Lefties.

Lammy has gone way beyond parody with his latest ludicrous outburst.

He is surely the ONLY person who could detect "racism" and "xenophobia" in the long-overdue criticism of Harry and No-Markle for their shameless freeloading and utter hypocrisy on environmental matters.


#PrayforLammy'sSanity

geordie1956    20 Aug 19 12:06 
I'm not sure how Elton John paying for the trip offsets any carbon footprint
Sounds like he's a sycophant and they are spongers of the highest order


Spot on.

Chucking cash into a ' Saving Carbon Footprint project,'  doesn't cancel out the footprint that's just be trod !!

It's already ridiculous.
Outdated sycophancy - creating a multitude of parasites, being treated as ' godlike ' figures.
And living a luxurious and pampered life style, totally removed from reality, for the whole of their lifetime.

Amazes me how anyone with any rational or decency could explain why we still have a `monarchy' to their children.

Look lad, I know I have tried to tell you about working hard, trying to learn and how its goof to treat all people as equals etc etc etc'.

Well actually `our' country puts 1 family up on some sort of God like pedestal and bestows them unimagineable wealth. They then carouse with prolific peodophiles, marry actresses, spout utter BS about how we should live our lives, buy race horses, get protected by the press, security services etc etc'

To be fair they do go to village fetes and pat ill babies on the head sometimes.

All this red tape and "law" cr*p protects them

Just go in with a sledgehammer and pliers and politely ask them for information

No shouting needed, look them in the eyes and ask, they'll know to tell you don't worry about that

I would argue against that, detrav

Not if you got to them first, if cops and armies didn't defend them (ie no rule of law) it would be much fairer

Yes of course they could get to you first but that's part of the game

From the ridiculous to the idiotic :(
We are very lucky to live in a country like Britain , it’s not easy to create a good and free and democratic and peaceful society , it’s a difficult thing to achieve take a look around the world
So we do pretty well in England , be thankful

What happened 2 centuries ago doesn’t concern me , sorry

It is said that they attract a lot of tourists. I don't know how you would put a figure on that. How much tourism would still be attracted by the iconic buildings and artifacts were they not there is difficult to evaluate too. A lot of people still visit the French palaces of Versailles and the Louvre even though their royal personages have long since departed, some divided neatly in two.

I thought Charles, Andrew and Edward were totally beyond contempt but Harry, the odious twit that he is, is giving those three a run for their money. I absolutely loathe all of them.

Indeed Capt_F.

Lol, such a fuss from the usual suspects

All the bleedin royal fly everywhere with andy windsor being the worst offender,one rule for them and b0llocks to the rest