Prince Harry claims he has ‘never intended to hurt his family’

Prince Harry has boldly claimed that he “never intended to hurt his family” with the brutal content of his explosive memoirs, despite the fact that the book, and the various television interviews the duke has done to promote it, contain several very highly charged attacks. harmful against royalty.

The 38-year-old father of two defended his decision to publicly air his grievances about his family during a 60 Minutes interview with Anderson Cooper on Sunday, which aired just over an hour after Harry gave a nearly identical interview. . -a chat with the British television channel ITV.

Asked by Cooper about a particularly ‘cutting’ passage in his book detailing his brother William’s ‘alarming baldness’ and his ‘famous resemblance’ to their mother Princess Diana, which the duke wrote was ‘disappearing with time, with age’ – Harry claimed he saw nothing ‘cutting’ in that passage, or any other in the memories.

‘I don’t see it as cutting at all,’ Harry replied.

During an interview with 60 Minutes, Harry said he had no choice but to air his grievances about the royals publicly because when he has done so in private, the stories have “leaked out.”

‘Um, you know, my brother and I love each other. I love him deeply. There has been a lot of pain between the two of us, especially in the last six years.

The duke insisted that he “never intended to hurt his family” by publishing the book, however, he claimed that he felt the need to share his story in such a public way to “squash the idea” that Meghan ‘was the one who destroyed’ his relationship with his brother.

“Nothing I have written, nothing I have included is intended to hurt my family,” he said.

“But it gives the full picture of the situation as we were growing up, and it also squashes the idea that somehow my wife was the one who destroyed the relationship between these two brothers.”

Prince Harry’s suggestion that he “never intended” to upset his family seems very much at odds with the content of his explosive book, which was accidentally released in Spain before the weekend, days before its scheduled publication on 10 April. January.

The anticipated release of the memoirs revealed a long list of damaging claims and accusations made by the Duke against his family, with Cooper himself noting in the introduction to his interview that “he is anything but sober in his unflattering portrayal of the royal family.” “.

Attacks rain down in every chapter of the book, from accusations that his brother assaulted him to claims that William and his father Carlos confronted him after Prince Philip’s funeral.

Cooper referenced a particularly “cutting” passage in which Harry describes William’s “alarming baldness”, however the duke replied: “I don’t see it as cutting at all.”

Attacks rain down in every episode: from accusations that his brother assaulted him in a fight over Meghan to claims that William and Charles confronted Harry after Prince Philip’s funeral and were “picking a fight”.

Harry also alleges that William and Kate, his once-adored sister-in-law who now comes across as cold and unsympathetic, urged him to wear his infamous Nazi costume.

The prince, who stepped down as a royal and moved to California with Meghan in search of more privacy, recalls dozens of family arguments and intimate conversations in harrowing detail. He also goes on to reveal his father’s medical ailments and the fact that the King still carries his favorite teddy bear with him.

However, according to Harry, none of this was intended to ‘harm’ his family, and the Prince told Cooper that he had no choice but to hit the royal family in such a public way, because it is the only ‘language that they might understand’, claiming that he had tried to have conversations ‘in private’ but that ‘every time… there have been briefings and leaks and seeding of stories against me and my wife.’

He continued: ‘You know, the family motto is ‘never complain, never explain’, but it’s just a motto and it doesn’t really hold up…’

Asked by Cooper if there had been “a lot of complaining and a lot of explaining through leaks,” Harry stated, “Through leaks.” They will feed or have a conversation with the correspondent and that correspondent will be literally spoon-fed information and write the story.

Shortly before his 60 Minutes interview was to air, the duke launched another attack on his family in a meeting with British ITV journalist Tom Bradby, in which he compared royals to ‘abusers’.

And at the end, they will say that they have contacted Buckingham Palace for comment. But the whole story is a Buckingham Palace commentary.

Repeating the attacks he and Meghan have made against the royals in their recent Netflix docuseries, the duke said the couple have been repeatedly ‘betrayed’ by their family, telling Cooper: ‘When they tell us over the past six years,’ We can “Don’t put out a statement to protect yourself”, but you do it for other family members, there comes a point where silence is a betrayal.

Dealing another blow to his family, and what he claims is the royals’ persistent ‘leaking’ of stories to the press, Harry said he would rather speak himself than voice his grievances about the Monarchy through ‘someone else’ or an ‘unidentified’. font’.

‘So now, trying to speak a language that maybe you understand, I’m going to sit here and tell you the truth with the words that come out of my mouth, instead of using someone else, an anonymous source, to feed lies or a narrative. . to a sensationalist outlet that literally radicalizes its readers to then potentially cause harm to my family, my wife, my children,’ he said.

Ironically, while Harry defended the bombs included in his memoirs, he simultaneously launched more attacks on his family, at one point describing Queen Consort Camilla as a “villain” whom he considered “dangerous”.

Shortly before his 60 Minutes interview was to air, the duke launched another extraordinary attack on his family in a meeting with British ITV journalist Tom Bradby, in which he compared royals to ‘abusers’ and suggested that the Monarchy helped ‘tear apart’ his family. and Meghan’s reputation.