Prince Harry interviews: How the world’s media have reacted

Prince Harry has made a “declaration of war” against the royal family in his latest round of explosive TV attacks, international media have reported.

The Duke of Sussex ‘shot the heart out’ of the monarchy with the latest revelations in interviews with ITV’s Tom Bradby and 60 Minutes with CBS’s Anderson Cooper.

In scathing criticism of his family, Harry branded his stepmother Camilla a “villain” and “dangerous”, ignoring King Charles’ pleas not to attack his wife.

Spanish news outlet ABC condemned the comments, saying today: “Prince Harry shoots the heart of the British royal family.”

They added that the media blitz of the ‘wayward son’ is causing a ‘nightmare’ for the new monarchy with its ‘explosive’ statements.

The Süddeutsche Zeitung, one of Germany’s largest daily newspapers, headlined today with the headline: ‘Declaration of war against the royal house’.

Other German medium Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said today: ‘It’s good that the Queen no longer has to experience this.’

The withering critic said Harry has “ruined the royal family life”, adding: “The prince and his wife present themselves as well-meaning well-meaning men who were accused of being eaten by the Windsors of the gossip press.” “.

“However, they themselves show no respect for the lives, dignity or privacy of others.”

The Spanish outlet El País declared last night: “Harry has decided to present himself to the world as a man who has achieved peace with himself – thanks to years of therapy – and happiness with his wife, Meghan Markle, and their two children, Archie.” three years, and Lilibet, a year and a half.

“At no time does it occur to him that, by doing so, he is airing the intimacies of close relatives or directly attacking them or the monarchical institution.”

Prince Harry’s long-awaited memoir Spare is out worldwide tomorrow, promising shocking revelations about his and his family’s personal lives.

French publication Le Figaro branded the royal ‘Dirty Harry, dirtier than ever’ amid the spate of interviews, Netflix series and lucrative book deals as he continues to sell his story and tell his ‘truth’.

In a night of television drama on both sides of the Atlantic:

In his interview with Anderson Cooper yesterday, Harry said of Camilla: “She was the villain, she was a third party to the marriage, she needed to rehabilitate her image.”

“That made her dangerous because of the connections she was forging within the British press. And there was an open willingness on both sides to exchange information and with a family built on hierarchy, and with her on her way to being Queen Consort, there were going to be people or bodies left on the street because of it.

But hours earlier, in an interview that viewers said contained several contradictions, he told ITV’s Tom Bradby that he was not “accurate” about Camilla in his book. Harry’s contradictions included his denial of previous allegations that the Royal Family is racist.

There was also disbelief when Harry told Mr Bradby that anything he tells William in the future will remain “private”, despite using his memoir, TV interviews, a Netflix documentary and an Oprah special to tell him. what his family told him. him and Meghan behind closed doors. He also said that he doesn’t want to hurt his family.

Bradby was visibly stunned, as were millions of viewers, by his grating reversal of earlier incendiary claims that an anonymous royal had raised concerns about his son Archie’s skin color.

The host brought up Oprah’s 2021 interview with Meghan, saying, “You accused members of your family of racism.”

But Harry snapped back, ‘No, I didn’t. The British press said that.’

The CBS interview came hours after a longer UK meeting with ITV, in which he told his friend Bradby his family was “complicit” in the “pain and suffering” inflicted on his wife Meghan and compared them with “abusers”. ‘.

He suggested that they helped “smash” his and Meghan’s reputations, forcing them to move to California and have “shown no willingness to reconcile.”

Harry also said there were “a lot of stereotypes” about Meghan after she was introduced to the royal family, because she is an “American, divorced, biracial actress.” But, in an interview of contradictions, he later insisted that the royal family is not racist, despite the fact that the allegation is at the center of Oprah’s interview of the Sussexes in 2021.

The duke said comments about his son Archie’s skin color were “unconscious bias”. Bradby seemed taken aback by the response, while experts said Harry clearly didn’t understand the term he was now using.

Harry’s new book is out tomorrow in the UK, but it launched early in Spain.

The Duke writes in his memoirs how he and William begged the King not to marry Camilla, telling Anderson Cooper: “We didn’t think it was necessary.” We thought she would do more harm than good.

However, in his UK interview with ITV on Sunday night, the duke denied being “accursing” towards the queen consort in his autobiography.

Presenter Tom Bradby said: “I want to talk briefly about your stepmother and the press because you’re quite scathing and suggest you’re…”

Harry replies ‘Bitful?… What, biting towards?’

Mr. Bradby replies: ‘Well, since you say that, ‘his interests were sacrificed on his public relations altar’, to quote, and it seems that’s what you mean specifically. Now your people might say, well, it’s not a crime to go to lunch with journalists.

Harry: ‘Well, I think it’s pretty clear from the book what happened.’