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Prince Harry revealed today that the Queen was “sad” by Megxit, but hinted that she was unable to act to stop it because of her brother and father and the institution he led for 70 years.
The Duke of Sussex spoke to Good Morning America on the final leg of his transatlantic television blitz to promote his new memoir ‘Spare’, due out tomorrow.
He was asked by GMA presenter Michael Strahan if Her Majesty, who died in September at 96, was “angry” about walking away from royal duties with his American wife Meghan Markle in early 2020.
Harry responded that he was “sad” by what happened, adding: “I had many, many conversations with her both in the UK over the years and in the lead up to this change, so it was never a surprise.” . no one except her.
But hinting that she was sidelined, she said: “She knew what was going on.” She knew how difficult she was. I don’t know if she was in a position to be able to change it.
The Duke of Sussex spoke to Good Morning America on the final leg of his transatlantic television blitz to promote his new memoir ‘Spare’, due out tomorrow. He was talking to Michael Strahan.
His memoirs and cover on New York’s Times Square this morning
The Duke of Sussex claimed in his Netflix docuseries that the late monarch watched in silence as Prince William left him terrified and yelled about exit talks she had called after Harry and Meghan Markle’s decision to step back from their royal duties. .
He said: “It was terrifying to see my brother yell and yell at me, and my father say things that just weren’t true, and my grandmother, you know, sitting quietly and taking it all in.”
But royal experts later said that any suggestion that the “Queen was sidelined” at the now notorious “Sandringham Summit” is “utter nonsense.”
Mr. Strahan, a former NFL star who earns $17 million a year hosting the US breakfast show on ABC, is the latest broadcaster to sit down with the exiled prince, who has appeared on ITV in the UK. last night and on 60 Minutes US later in a series of pre-recorded interviews.
Mr Strahan then said: ‘There are going to be people saying, get in or get out, because if you get out there is no hypocrisy.’
Harry then said that he will “never be able to get out” of the royal family.
He said he had not compromised on his half-in/half-out hybrid plan to move to Canada, but also to continue serving the Queen during the Megxit crisis in 2020.
Interviewer Michael Strahan asked: “There was no engagement with the family?”
Harry replied, ‘No, which was very sad because to this day I believe this was entirely possible.’
Strahan asked: “There are going to be people who say ‘Why don’t they go in or why don’t they leave? Because if you go out there is no hypocrisy.'”
Harry said: “I can never get out and I’m incredibly self-aware of my position.”
“I am incredibly grateful for the life I have had and continue to live.
“But there is no version of me that is capable of coming out of this. I was shocked that my family would allow security to be taken away from us, especially where we were most vulnerable.”
When asked about critics who say he has sold out his family, Harry says that the only way he could protect his family was to correct the falsehoods, writing the truth in one place.
“I fully accept that writing a book is feeding the beast anyway,” he adds.
Harry told CBS last night that his stepmother, Camilla, is ‘the villain’ and ‘dangerous’, as she ignored his father’s plea not to attack his wife.
But contradicting that, the Duke of Sussex told GMA that he doesn’t see the queen consort as an “evil stepmother.”
He said: ‘I have great compassion for her, you know, being the third person in my parents’ marriage.
He had a reputation, or an image, to rehabilitate.
“Whatever conversations that took place, whatever deals or transactions were made early on, he was led to believe that that would be the best way to do it.”
When asked what his relationship with Camilla is like now, Harry said: “We haven’t talked in a long time.” I love each member of my family, despite the differences, so when I see her we are perfectly nice to each other.
It’s my stepmother. I don’t see her as an evil stepmother. I see someone who got married in this institution and has done everything possible to improve her own reputation and her own image for her own good.’
Speaking of his fractured relationship with William, he said there has always been competition between him and his brother, the Prince of Wales, and has referred to that part of the British press.
Speaking on Good Morning America, Harry said: “They throw the Wales, who are now Kate and William, against the Sussexes, me and my wife.”
“We were always pitted against each other. They pit Kate and Meghan against each other.
When asked if she thought this made the two women “go against each other”, she said yes “without hesitation”.
But he also admitted that she has to take responsibility for her role in the breakdown of her relationship with her brother, the Prince of Wales.
When asked on Good Morning America if he thinks he bears any responsibility for the breakup, Harry replied: “No doubt.” Of course.
“But what people don’t know is the effort I’ve made to resolve this in private, both with my brother and with my father.”