
"The family motto is 'Never complain never explain,' but it's just a motto, and it doesn't really hold." "Every time I've tried to do it privately, there have been briefings and leaking and planting of stories against me and my wife," he said. When asked why he's being so public about his gripes with the royal family, Harry took aim at Buckingham Palace's "Never complain never explain" motto, insisting that the institution's refusal to protect him and his wife while also leaking private details about them to the press is akin to "betrayal." Because rather than getting drunk, falling out of clubs, taking drugs, I had now found the love of my life, and I now had the opportunity to start a family with her." "As opposed to yeah, I did change, and I'm really glad I changed. "A large part of it for the family, but also the British press and numerous other people, is, like, 'He's changed. If the royal family and the British media got the sense that Harry changed, it's because he did, and for the better. So if you have that judgment based on a stereotype right at the beginning, it's very, very hard to get over that." So whether you walk around saying you believe it or not, it's still leaving an imprint in your mind. " laid out at breakfast when everyone comes together. Harry recounted how the royal family actually put more stock in how they're portrayed in the tabloid media than one would expect, which is why many in Harry's family began to believe the negative media narrative about Markle. "If you are led to believe, as a member of the family, that being on the front page, having positive headlines, positive stories written about you is going to improve your reputation or increase the chances of you being accepted as monarch by the British public, then that's what you're gonna do," he said. Harry claimed he was one of those bodies, and that his father was party to information sharing with the media. And with a family built on hierarchy, and with her on the way to being queen consort, there was gonna be people or bodies left in the street because of that." He added, "There was open willingness on both sides to trade of information. Harry explained on "60 Minutes" that Camilla's need to "rehabilitate her image" made her "dangerous" because of "the connections that she was forging within the British press." "Maybe she'd be less dangerous if she was happy."

"I even wanted Camilla to be happy," he writes. In "Spare," Harry writes that Camilla campaigned to marry Charles and he was OK with it, but maybe not for the reason one would expect.


Like, I haven't seen you for ages, now we get to hang out together.' He's like, 'No, no, no, when we're at school, we don't know each other.' And I took that personally." I was like, 'What do you mean? We're now at the same school. Harry said the boys basically lived separate lives after Princess Diana died and had a sibling rivalry, recounting the time when William told Harry to pretend they didn't know each other when they began attending the same school.

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While Harry maintained he loves his older brother "deeply," he also acknowledged "there has been a lot of pain between the two of us, especially the last six years." He went on to say that he didn't write "Spare" to hurt his family, but rather to "give a full picture of the situation as we were growing up" and to squash the "idea that somehow my wife was the one that destroyed the relationship between these two brothers." Check out the biggest revelations ahead.Īlthough the UK tabloids would have you believe Harry and Prince William began drifting apart when the younger brother began dating Meghan Markle, Harry said that's not the case. While fans (and critics) will have to wait for "Spare" to read everything Harry recalls about his lifetime of royalty, the prince made quite a few shocking revelations about his life and the growing fracture between him and the royal family in his "60 Minutes" interview. The book promises to dive into topics such as Harry's experience coping with the tragic death of his mother, Princess Diana the challenges of growing up in the public eye and - more recently - the royal institution and the British press's treatment of him and his wife, Meghan Markle, that led them to step down as working royals. 8 to discuss some of the many revelations he unpacks in his book, arriving on Jan. Prince Harry isn't holding back about all he's been through as a royal in the lead-up to his highly anticipated memoir "Spare." Following the explosive debut of his Netflix documentary "Harry & Meghan," the prince sat down with Anderson Cooper on CBS's "60 Minutes" on Jan.
