Royal butler Grand Harrold told 'OK!' that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are accustomed to being criticized by naysayers and that the duke is 'drowning out the outside noise' ahead of his ESPY Award honor tonight.
Christopher is a Southern California-based editor and has been with InStyle since 2018. He covers all things entertainment, celebrity, and culture.is set to accept the Pat Tillman Award for Service at the ESPY Awards, but the big moment already has a dark cloud over it, thanks to critics like Tillman's mother coming forward and wondering why, exactly, the Duke of Sussex would receive such an honor.
“From what I remember, Harry was always an extremely private person, so I’m not sure how he’ll feel about that—but I can imagine his way of coping with the attention is to carry on as normal,” Harrold added. “He’d never want to cause any upset. If he thinks that it is going to cause upset, then it is quite likely that he could decline the award—because he’d never want to cause any upset, and it would affect him hearing about the backlash.
"ESPN, with the support of the Tillman Foundation, is honoring Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, specifically for the work of The Invictus Games Foundation," a statement from the network read.“I am shocked as to why they would select such a controversial and divisive individual to receive the award,” she told the publication. “There are individuals working in the veteran community that are doing tremendous things to assist veterans.
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