Prince Harry in a television interview on Sunday defended his memoirs, which he said were “necessary” and threatened to further divide the British royal family four months before the coronation of King Charles II III, writes AFP.

Rivalry with his older brother, Princess Diana’s funeral and the desire to reconcile with the British royal family were the main topics that Prince Harry touched on in an interview with the British television channel ITV on Sunday, just two days before the official opening of the volume of his memoirs “Spare” (“The Reserve “).

About the reasons why he wrote this book

Harry said he suffered “at the age of 38 … from deliberate misinformation and manipulation” that prompted him to write this volume of memoirs, which he considers “necessary” to establish “historical facts”.

“After 38 years of watching my own story told by many people with deliberate distortions and manipulations, it seemed like the right time to take back my story and tell it myself,” the Duke of Sussex said, according to AFP, according to Agerpres.

He claims that he did nothing with the intention of harming the family. “I love my father, I love my brother, I love my family, and I will always love them. Nothing I wrote in this book was done with the intention of hurting them or harming them,” Prince Harry insisted, saying he hoped for “reconciliation” provided “responsibility” was taken , especially regarding his move in with wife Megan. to California in 2020.

Prince Harry said he felt the need to speak out because “some members of the family have decided to team up with the devil to rehabilitate their image” against him and other members of the British royal family.

According to some paragraphs extracted from this book, which have already reached the press after the volume was put up for sale due to an error, the British prince did not spare criticism of almost all his relatives, especially his brother, last Thursday in Spain. , Prince William, the heir to the throne, has already starred in the Harry and Meghan documentary series that aired on Netflix in December.

No racism

The Duke of Sussex says Prince William is his “favourite brother and bitter enemy”, accusing him of flooring him during a 2019 row over Meghan, whom Harry married last year.

He also accused his older brother and his wife Kate of being “prejudiced” against Meghan, a mixed-race American actress, which “created an obstacle” to his wife being fully recognized by the royal family. Harry also repeated the accusations made against some members of the royal family, whom he considers “complicit” in the appearance of articles hostile to him and his wife.

The British prince was particularly critical of his father’s wife Camilla, who has since become Queen Consort, saying that some of the details of the private conversations that were published in the media “could only have come from her”.

When asked about an interview with American journalist Oprah Winfrey in 2021, Harry denied accusations that the British royal family was racist after one of its members wanted to know the skin color of his unborn child. “No, I didn’t do that. That’s what the British press said,” Harry said, referring to the “unconscious biases” he and Meghan criticized.

Prince Harry said a recent incident in which the late Queen Elizabeth II’s close friend Susan Hussey repeatedly asked black British activist Ngozi Fulani about where she was “really” from, Prince Harry said.

About the relationship with brother William

Harry opened up about his long-standing rivalry with his brother William, revealing that they fought as kids, that William ignored him at school and that he tried to shave off his beard before marrying Meghan. He accused William of naively believing the British tabloids’ portrayal of Meghan, which led to a physical altercation between the two brothers.

Harry said that William and Kate were fans of the American series “Suits”, in which Meghan played one of the main roles. But his brother and sister-in-law did not expect, he said, that he would have a relationship with this American actress, who is a mestizo and a divorced woman. “There were a lot of stereotypes” about her that “created an obstacle” for her to be fully accepted by the royal family.

William “never tried” to persuade him not to marry Meghan, but “he expressed some concerns”, Harry said.

“Ball in their court”

Harry allowed himself to doubt his intentions a little. “A lot can happen from now on” but “the ball is in their court,” he told ITV. “I don’t think silence is going to make things better,” he said, claiming he hopes to have a “conversation” with his family, although he doesn’t think his father and brother will read his book.

Many paragraphs in this volume deal with the trauma caused by the death of his mother, Princess Diana, in a car accident in Paris in 1997. In an interview with ITV, Prince Harry admitted that he only cried “once, at a funeral”. and he spoke of the discomfort he felt when he and his brother had to shake hands with the people who came to retreat at that time in front of Kensington Palace in London.

The ITV interview also aired some excerpts from the audio version of the book, read by Prince Harry himself, including a segment in which he recounts how his father told him of his mother’s death.

About the future

Harry “100%” believes he can reconcile with his family and it could have a “domino effect around the world”.

He says he’s now “in a good mood” to have a sensitive conversation with his family members: “It’s been hard, I don’t want to lie to you,” he said of the past few years, but “The truth is, I’ve never been happier “.

Since Thursday, reactions in the British media have alternated between disbelief at the intimate nature of some of Harry’s revelations, such as his loss of virginity and drug use, and outrage at what is seen as a frontal attack on the royal family. In particular, a loud scandal in the British press and society was caused by Harry’s disclosure that he had killed 25 Taliban fighters during his military duties in Afghanistan.

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