How Prince Harry was the victim of an elaborate HOAX phone call with ‘Greta Thunberg’ [Video]

04:44 EDT 09 Jun 2025, updated 07:21 EDT 09 Jun 2025

It can be easy to fall for a prank phone call and say things you shouldn’t.

But for Prince Harry, who has been trained for the public eye his entire life, his foolishness when it came to pranksters made the national press.

His candid views came during two revealing conversations with hoax callers on New Year’s Eve and January 22 in 2020 in which he gave an extraordinary insight into his state of mind during Megxit. 

Picking up the phone in his Canada home, Harry believed he was speaking to Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and her father Svante.

But in reality – he was duped by Russians Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov, who posted the footage online. 

Historian and biographer Robert Lacey, who was a historical advisor to the Netflix series The Crown, wrote about the fateful phone call in his book Battle of the Brothers.

Harry had …