Eco-warriors or hypocrites? Prince Harry and his wife fly private jet, producing more emissions

They are also accused of huge holiday spending.

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle twice within a week flew on a private jet: first returning from Ibiza, and two days later flying to Nice in the south of France. 

It would be all well and good, but the tabloid The Sun is loudly accusing Prince Harry of hypocrisy: on the one hand he takes part in programs to save the planet's ecology, on the other, by flying on a private jet, he leaves behind 7 times more emissions into the atmosphere per person than he would have if he had flown on regular flights.

The publication noted that more than 20 flights a week are made from London airports to Nice, and a ticket per person could cost £232 if booked with the budget airline easyJet. Instead, the family ordered a charter flight for £20,000.

The lives of kings, queens, princes, princesses, their children and others are funded by British taxpayers. That is why The Sun is now attacking the royal family doubly over excessive spending: their holiday in Ibiza was too expensive.

Harry, Meghan and three-month-old Archie stayed in the gated Vista Alegre complex, which, according to The Sun, is more suitable for billionaires. A week in one of the resort's villas costs £25,000, while for many other options the price is not even announced publicly (which likely means an even higher price).

Harry and Meghan's holiday could have cost even more, because before choosing Vista Alegre, they considered staying on Togomago island for £120,000 a week.

The royal family declined to comment on the harm from private flights and large spending on holidays.

Despite The Sun's tabloid nature, Harry and his wife gave them an excellent reason to pick on them. One cannot help but suspect hypocrisy in a man who just two weeks ago told Vogue magazine in an interview that he would not have more than two children with his wife so as not to overburden the Earth's ecology.

"Almost 7.7 billion people inhabit the planet. Every choice, every step, every action matters," said Prince Harry, who then could not resist the temptation to fly on a private jet, not even for business but purely for a holiday.

In March Harry said the following: "Climate change is a humanitarian issue, not a political one, and we are solving it too slowly, destroying the world. Now we have facts, science, technology and the opportunity to save not only the planet but ourselves. Don't sit and wait for others to decide: act."

But Harry himself is not acting yet. Or do the obligations to save the climate not apply to the royal family?