It’s no secret there is no love loss between Prince Harry and Jeremy Clarkson after he brutally bashed Meghan in one of his columns. So imagine Prince Harry’s dismay to discover a former buddy had become chums with the TV presenter
Prince Harry has had his fair share of fall-outs over his controversial book Spare, but he will be left devastated once another friendship hits the skids.
One of his closest pals has made an ‘unthinkable’ move in a Meghan Markle snub and appears to have deserted him. There’s rumour of a rift with Hugh van Cutsem after he worked alongside Meghan Markle’s nemesis, Jeremy Clarkson.
The former Top Gear host hit the headlines in 2022 after he wrote an article in The Sun newspaper, in which Jeremy cruelly described how much he hated the Duchess of Sussex. In the column, Clarkson shared his hopes of the Duchess of Sussex being paraded naked in the street – which was later ruled as sexist by the press regulator.
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Harry and Meghan blasted the article, which was removed by The Sun, and said it spread “hate rhetoric” as well as “dangerous conspiracy theories and misogyny”. However, it seems that one of the Duke of Sussex ’s closest friends has now switched sides, as he was spotted in an episode of Jeremy’s hit Amazon Prime show, Clarkson’s Farm.
Hugh van Cutsem, who has known both Harry and Prince William since they were children, was seen stalking deer in episode seven of the show alongside Jeremy, suggesting the 49-year-old was yet another friend who has had a falling out with the prince.
The Daily Mail’s Richard Eden was equally as alarmed. Eden said: “Anyone who doubts the depth of Harry’s rift with some of his oldest and – once upon a time – closest friends need look no further than the new series of Clarkson’s Farm on Amazon Prime, in which columnist and presenter Jeremy Clarkson at-tempts to run his 1,000-acre Diddly Squat farm in Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire.”
He added: “Yet who should appear in a recent episode of Clarkson’s Farm, but another of Harry’s oldest friends!Hugh van Cutsem, described simply as ‘Hugh’ on screen, is seen stalking deer with Clarkson in the Cotswolds countryside – an appearance that would have been unthinkable were he still close to Harry. “
Prince Harry has spoken out about the desertion by some of his oldest friends after he was chastised for his explosive Oprah Winfrey interview. The Duke of Sussex spoke out about how his nearest and dearest berated him for opening up to the US chat show queen about the Royal Family.
Prince Harry wrote in his memoir Spare: “Several close mates and beloved figures in my life, including one of Hugh and Emilie’s sons, Emilie herself, and even Tiggy, had chastised me for Oprah, How could you reveal such things? About your family?”
Harry said he reckoned it was no different from his father’s authorised biography written by journalist Jonathan Dimbleby in 1994, which suggested Prince Philip bullied him to tears. Harry wrote in his book Spare: “And what about the endless books on which they’d co-operated. Starting with Pa’s 1994 crypto-autobiography with Jonathan Dimbleby? Or Camilla’s collaborations with the [former Daily Mail] editor Geordie Greig? The only difference was that Meg and I were upfront about it.”
