Ben Shephard has publicly hit out at Prince Harry on Good Morning Britain for 'pointing the finger' at Prince Charles, just week's after the death of Prince Phillip.
Prince Charles looked visibly moved at the funeral of his dad, the Duke of Edinburgh, last month, which Prince Harry attended, so GMB host Ben and many others have questioned the timing of the Duke of Sussex going onto a podcast and describing his royal family life as "a mix between The Truman Show and being in a zoo."
Talking about what Prince Harry said on American actor and presenter Dax Shepard's podcast, released during Mental Health Awareness Week, Ben's co-host Kate Garraway said: "It's a strange one isn't it? Do you know the one thing that I've heard most of all - a young dad.
"A young dad trying to do the best for his family and feeling pain themselves, feeling pain that you can see he's gone through with his family."
She continued: ""And doing that thing you do when you're a young dad, going, 'I'm not going to do the same as my parents, I'm going to do things differently.'
"And I just wonder what it would be like to talk to him in five years time."
However, Ben, just a day after viewers accused him of being 'demanding' in an interview about the Indian variant, was nowhere near as sympathetic to Prince Harry.
He responded: "And look back and think about what he's done. I mean, when you start with, 'I don't want to point the finger' and then immediately points the finger! It's a really..."
Not backing down on her defence of the Duke, Kate interrupted: "Does he mean to point the finger though? I don't know that he is doing it intentionally. The repercussions would be that it's certainly seen as that as Prince Charles."
Ben, also standing strong on his point of view, replied: "But we've all been there as young parents.
"What am I going to do? I'm going to take the best bits that my parents did and take the bits that I didn't quite enjoy as much as a kid growing up.'
But then you get down the line 10 or 15 years later and you put your hands up and say, 'Goodness me, I can see why you did the best you did'. And you have more respect."
