Prince Harry is getting backlash for his appearance on Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” on Wednesday night, even getting booed by the audience for making a quip about President Trump.
The estranged British royal family member participated in an awkward skit. “I genuinely thought this was the audition for the Gingerbread Prince saves Christmas in Nebraska,” Meghan Markle’s husband said while coming out onto the stage.
Harry joked he wanted to go into acting because he knew Americans were “obsessed” with Christmas movies and royalty. Colbert pretended to disagree, prompting Prince Harry to say, “Really? I heard you elected a king.”
Even Colbert’s audience reacted to the joke with booing and other noises of dissent.
“That’s a fair point, he’s got a point,” the late show host told the crowd.
“And often making such a big deal about my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather George III,” Harry added, referencing the king of Great Britain during the American Revolution.
While Trump’s name was only referenced once, the Duke of Sussex alluded to him again during his appearance while saying all the things he’d do to become a Hallmark movie prince.
“I’ll record a self-tape, I’ll fly myself to an audition, settle a baseless lawsuit with the White House. All the things you people on TV do,” Harry said, referencing the $16 million settlement Paramount paid Trump over the editing of a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris ahead of last year’s election.
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“Harry, I didn’t do any of those things,” Colbert said.
“Maybe that’s why you’re canceled,” the British royal replied.
Colbert and Prince Harry ended their cringe skit by embracing awkwardly as fake snow fell on them.
Some Americans have called on Trump to add Prince Harry to his list of people to deport, but the president addressed the matter earlier this year, joking about the British royal’s marriage.
“I don’t want to [deport Prince Harry],” Trump told The New York Post in February. “I’ll leave him alone. He’s got enough problems with his wife. She’s terrible.”
Although Trump has not targeted Prince Harry for deportation, he has been vocal about his feelings for the self-exiled royal. In February 2024, Trump accused former President Joe Biden’s administration of “protecting Harry” and said he couldn’t promise the same.
“He betrayed the queen. That’s unforgivable,” President Trump told the U.K.’s Daily Express in an interview at the time.
The royal couple has also voiced negative feelings about Trump over the years. During the 2016 presidential race, Markle called the president “divisive” and “misogynistic,” prompting Trump to call her statements about him “nasty.”
In 2020, Trump said he wasn’t “a fan” of Markle.
“I’m not a fan of hers and I would say this, and she probably has heard that, but I wish a lot of luck to Harry … because he’s going to need it,” Trump said.
