In a prominent TV interview, Prince Harry (38) says he doesn’t know if he will play a role in the future of the monarchy.
“Wouldn’t your brother say to you, ‘Harry, how could you do this to me after all, after all we’ve been through?’ Isn’t that what he would say?
That’s the question presenter Tom Bradby asks in Prince Harry’s big TV interview on British ITV, which airs on Sunday night.
– He’d probably say all sorts of different things, Harry replies.
In ITV’s previously released clips of ‘Harry: The Interview’, she describes conflict with her family and says she only cried once after her mother Diana died.
He also says he wants to reconcile with his family, but that can’t happen without “a certain responsibility”.
Prince Harry also reveals that Meghan and Princess Kate ‘never got along’, which has already been somewhat conveyed in the Netflix documentary ‘Meghan & Harry’ they talk about a popularity contest between two.
You can watch the entire interview exclusively at vgtv from 11.40pm on Sunday.
The interview is on the occasion of Prince Harry’s upcoming book “Spare”. The biography will be released on Tuesday 10 January, but several details have already leaked after it accidentally went on sale in Spain.
There, among other things, Prince Harry tells of a confrontation in 2019, which should have ended Prince William (40) resorted to physical attack.
«It all happened so fast. So very fast. She grabbed me by the collar, snatched my necklace and threw me to the ground», writes Harry in the book.
It is expected that the autobiography it will cause further deterioration in the relationship between Prince Harry and the rest of the British royal family.
At the beginning of the television interview, Bradby says:
– You didn’t burn your bridges as much as you brought them a flamethrower.
To which Harry replies:
– Well, they certainly didn’t show any willingness to reconcile.
Prince Harry is also asked if he believes in the monarchy. To this he replies yes, but when asked if he will play a role in her future, he replies:
– I do not know. I really do not know.
Talking about his mother’s death
During the interview, excerpts from Harry’s biography are read. The first part of the interview talks a lot about Diana’s death and how 12-year-old Harry received the death message from his father, King Charles.
– I brought myself back to that moment and tried to remember as much as possible. You know, my dad walks in, in his robe and shares that news with me, he says in the interview.
– It’s only now, when writing the book, that I really thought about how many hours he had been awake. And the compassion I have for him, as a parent who has to sit with that for many, many hours — friends call him, trying to figure out “how the hell am I going to tell my two kids?”
Prince Harry also says he remembers the “guilt” he felt as he walked out of Kensington Palace following Dina’s death in the sea of flowers, and smiled, as he “wasn’t able to show emotion at the time”.
He also says there was “absolutely no chance” that he would have let William walk alone behind his mother’s coffin.
Accuses members of the royal family of ‘sleeping with the enemy’
– I love my father. I love my brother. I love my family, Harry says.
– Nothing I have done with this book or in any other way has ever been intended to harm or hurt them.
Harry says he has endured “many, many years of lies being told about me and my family”.
He once again addresses the relationship between some members of the royal family and the tabloid press, saying:
– Individual members have decided to sleep with the enemy, right? To rehabilitate the image of him.
Check out clips of another TV interview Harry does in connection with the book:
When asked how he accounts for the level of revealing revelations in the biography, Harry explains that the family motto is “never complain, never explain.”
– What people have realized now, through the Netflix documentary and a series of stories that have come out over the years, is that it was just a motto, he added.
– The saddest thing about this… is that it was never meant to be like this. It never had to get to this point.
He says he’s had conversations, written letters and emails, but was only told, “No, that’s not what’s happening… you’re imagining it.”
– And it’s hard to accept. Had it stopped, the moment I fled my home country with my wife and child in fear for our lives, it might have been different. It’s hard, he says.
Accused of harsh criticism of the stepmother
During the interview, Harry is also accused by Bradby of harshly criticizing his stepmother, Camilla.
In an excerpt Harry read from the book, he says he and his brother William “supported Camilla,” but asked their father Charles not to marry her.
“Shortly after our private meetings with her, she started playing long term. A campaign aimed at marriage, and ultimately the crown, with the father’s blessing, we speculated,” the book excerpt reads.
“Stories about his private conversation with Willie began appearing all over the newspapers, stories containing exact details, none of which came from Willie, of course. It could only have leaked from the other person present.
In the interview, Harry explained:
– No part of anything I’ve said is a scathing criticism of any member of my family, especially my stepmother.
– There are things that have happened that have been incredibly painful, some in the past, some in the present.
ITV has already released clips from the interview. There, Bradby asks if Harry – who has been fiercely against invasion of privacy all his life – understands that the charges against him will be that Harry is now the one giving away private details to loved ones without permission.
– It will be the allegations of people who do not understand – or do not want to believe – that my family has informed the press.
Harry also won’t respond if he comes to King Charles’s coronation if invited.
– A lot can happen between now and then. But you know, the door is always open. The ball is in their half. There’s a lot to discuss and I really hope they can—are willing—to sit down and talk about it, she says in the already-released clip.
The biography comes a month later Netflix’s controversial documentary “Harry & Meghan” has been released on Netflix.
