JAN MOIR: Watch out Windsors, bitter Harry’s heating up his tureen of spleen again ahead of memoir

At royal residences across the country, family feelings must be running hot after this first Christmas without the Queen.

Sorrows must be counted along with blessings, the golden solidity of a passing reign measured against the ambiguity of the future.

However, the Windsors can congratulate themselves on another successful holiday season, which passed without a major event or surprise and . . . Uh oh.

Just when it seemed safe to lift the royal gaze to the blameless horizon of a new year, the Duke of Sussex is making moves to promote his new autobiography, Spare.

And the prospect of opinionated and embittered Prince Harry once again heating up his spleen must send a chill through the House of Windsor.

Only snippets of the two upcoming TV interviews have been released: a snippet of conversation with Anderson Cooper for CBS in the US and a sentence or two with Tom Bradby for ITV in the UK. However, a lot can be gleaned from these teasers. Mood, strategy, and intent, along with the depth of deception and a hint of resentment? It’s all there.

And what’s immediately clear is that when the book is published next week and the interviews air in their entirety, the royals shouldn’t expect a ton of laughs. Or even a pat on the back, a thank you, a belated gift of sympathy, or an apology.

Even dressed in his good-boy sweater and fancy shirt, Harry radiates pure menace.

His voice is level but his eyes are cold and glassy. She sometimes even sounds like someone who has joined a cult, or maybe walked onto the bridge of the spaceship Enterprise.

Referring to interviews and his memoir: ‘Harry radiates pure menace’, according to Jan Moir

“There comes a point where silence is a betrayal,” he told Cooper in a moment of high drama. What was he talking about? The lack of response from the Vulcans on the planet Tharg?

No, he was talking about what he saw as failures on the part of the royal family to protect him and Meghan from… well, what? Negative publicity published in newspapers, magazines and the Internet seems to be the answer. “They have shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile,” he told Bradby, speaking of his family’s unwillingness to be friends with him again.

It was hard not to bark with laughter at this. The Duke of Sussex (and the Duchess, let’s be fair) has spent much of the past three years repeatedly publicly criticizing his family, accusing them of cruelty, neglect, racism, lies, jealousy and worse.

And some things that have been said can never go unsaid, so it’s no surprise that the King and Prince of Wales are in no mood to approach their chief tormentor with open arms, even if he can’t understand why.

Because Harry is like a cranky arsonist who personally doused the barns with gasoline and lit the match that burned down the family farm, while telling the world that his crop was rotten anyway. And then he is shocked and hurt when his scorched and betrayed relatives take offense at his highly flammable behavior. What does he expect?

Every action has a consequence and every position of power has its unique responsibility. And for someone who defends the merits of therapy, Prince Harry’s lack of insight into his own behavior is staggering.

Prince Harry’s interview with Anderson Cooper on Sunday 8th January on CBS will be Prince Harry’s first TV interview in the US to discuss his upcoming memoir Spare

He says he wants his father and brother back, as if their lack of enthusiasm and affection for the Reconciliation Project has nothing to do with him. This sudden need for roots versus control and the thrill of being uprooted from him is psychologically interesting, but he can’t have it both ways.

Consider the evidence. The initial hint of trouble came in October 2019, when Tom Bradby interviewed the Sussexes on their tour of South Africa. Meghan complained about being ignored and existing instead of thriving, while Harry said he and his brother were on different paths.

We didn’t know it then, but these were the first points to unravel the royal tapestry.

Since then there has been no end to the complaints, a litany of mistakes and failures that are never, ever their fault.

It’s exhausting, I know, but a quick summary of complaints and accusations includes that Meghan is not protected by the ‘Institution’ and that her friends are silenced. Kate making her cry. Meghan has suicidal thoughts, but she is prevented from seeking professional help because she would not be good for the royal appearance. An anonymous member of the royal family who expresses his thoughts on how dark Archie’s skin could be. Harry accusing his father of ‘literally’ cutting him off financially. Endless discussions about personal security and who paid for it.

In May 2021, Harry told the Armchair Expert podcast that he was experiencing “genetic pain” as a result of his upbringing. That same month, he complained in a mental health docuseries for Apple about the “total neglect” of his family. Last summer, Meghan complained to The Cut magazine for not being able to capitalize on her royal status.

“In these troubled times, it’s hard to see how much more appetite the public will have for the outlandishly and repeatedly expressed issues of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex,” says Jan Moir.

‘Just by existing, we were upsetting the dynamics of the hierarchy. So we say, “OK, okay, let’s get out of here. Happy to do it,” she said. Last month, in their biggest act of betrayal to date, the two accepted an award for fighting “systemic racism” in the Royal Family. How can they be friends again now?

Those bridges have been burned, along with the family farm and every ounce of trust.

Something went terribly wrong to drive Harry and Meghan into exile and on this endless odyssey of wrongdoing, real or imagined. And everyone is sad about what happened and because they felt they had no choice but to leave. But they abandoned themselves, seeing themselves as shackled victims of oppression and abandonment from an institution that was trying to harm them.

In these troubled times, it’s hard to see how much more appetite the public will have for the outlandishly and oft-repeated issues of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

Because they’re not just the kind of first-world problems that can seem childish to people who really suffer, but they’re the bitter side dish that only comes with true elitism and ultra-privilege. These TV teasers reveal that, even now, Harry still sees himself as a victim and sees his father and his brother as the architects of his doom.

For a man who has everything, he seems to have nothing except a hostile desire for revenge.

It all comes down to this; Someone stole the jam on Harry’s donut, and someone will have to pay.