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Prince Harry raps Fresh Prince of Bel-Air with James Corden as he opens up about US life
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The Duke of Sussex maintained that he and Meghan Markle “never walked away” from the Royal Family in an interview with James Corden on a double-decker bus tour of Los Angeles.
During the talk show appearance, Prince Harry, who moved from England to Southern California last year, rapped the theme song to the 1990s comedy “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”
The amusing footage shows them spitting bars from the song originally sung by Will Smith when they stopped by the home where the 1990s comedy was shot.
“If it was good enough for the Fresh Prince, it’s good enough for a real prince,” Corden says, walking up the drive. “Do you remember the song?”
“Now this is the story, all about how, my life got flipped, turned upside down, now take a minute,” Harry raps before turning to Corden for help.
“And sit right there, I’ll tell you how I became the prince of town called…,” Corden chimes in.
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“Bel -ir,” Harry concludes the song.
And Corden gave him tea in the afternoon while pointing out famous houses, including what he said were those of Friends star David Schwimmer and Die Hard actor Bruce Willis.
In a wide-ranging conversation largely conducted on an open-top bus, an off-leash Harry also admits to having Zoom conversations with Prince Philip and the Queen, who gave Archie a waffle machine for Christmas, and describes his kid as ‘hysterical,’ saying his first word was ‘crocodile.’ He also claims that after two dates, he knew Meghan was ‘the one,’ characterizing their relationship as ‘0-60 in two months.’
He said: ‘It was never walking away. It was stepping back rather than stepping down. It was a really difficult environment, which I think a lot of people saw. So I did what any father or husband would do and thought: ‘How do I get my family out of there’. But we never walked away’.
When Corden asked Harry, 36, how he saw his life beyond the lockdown, he replied, “My life is always going to be about public service and Meghan signed up to that.”
The interview was Harry’s first since his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, relieved him and his wife, former actress Meghan Markle, of their remaining royal duties earlier this month. Corden’s coup topped Oprah Winfrey’s interview with the newlyweds, which is set to broadcast on March 7.
During the trip, Harry said that he felt his connection with Meghan was “pretty special” from the second date.
“We got to spend an enormous amount of time just the two of us,” Prince Harry said.
“There were no distractions, and that was great, it was an amazing thing.
“We went from zero to 60 in the first two months.”
When asked about the couple’s ‘regular night in,’ Harry said they may prepare Archie’s tea, give him a bath, and read him a book before he and Meghan spend time together.
James grilled his buddy on everything, including his thoughts on Netflix’s The Crown, which chronicles the tale of the Royal family.
Harry replied: ‘They don’t pretend to be news, it’s fictional but it’s loosely based on the truth.
‘Of course it’s not strictly accurate, but, loosely, it gives you a rough idea about what that lifestyle, what the pressures of putting duty and service above family and everything else, what can come from that.
‘I am way more comfortable with The Crown than I am seeing the stories written about my family, or my wife or myself.’
Fans have lately thrown a torrent of criticism at the Royal Family about how Princess Diana is portrayed in popular shows, with trolls throwing nasty insults at the Duchess of Cornwall over her depiction.
Prince Harry said that he felt “way more comfortable with The Crown” since it was “it’s fictional, loosely based on the truth”
At the conclusion of the conversation, Prince Harry and Corden competed on an obstacle course against one other.
Critics have questioned the timing of his television appearance, which came just as the Queen issued a rare public statement urging all Britons to get the Covid-19 vaccine. Others who saw the video, in which Harry complains about the media coverage he got in the UK, encouraged him to ‘stop bl**dy whining’ and accused him of ‘re-writing history’ and ‘ignoring’ the multi-million dollar agreements he struck with Netflix and Spotify.