London: Prince Harry says it is his father and brother’s fault that they have not reconciled and has accused Buckingham Palace of betraying him and his wife Meghan by silence, in two primetime interviews he has conducted to promote his upcoming memoir.
The sensational snippets of the interviews were released just weeks after the Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan aired, in which Harry and his wife took fresh aim at the royal family, accusing rival households of leaking to the press about them out of jealousy.
Family argument: King Charles, Harry, Meghan and William.Credit:Getty, Netflix, AP
A trailer released by British broadcaster ITV suggested his next unload on the royal family may be even more dramatic than the last.
The duke said he wanted to restore relations but that it was not his fault that it hadn’t happened.
“I would like to get my father back, I would like to get my brother back,” Harry tells his friend and the ITV broadcaster Tom Bradby.
“They’ve shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile, they feel as though it’s better to keep us somehow as the villain.
“It never needed to be this way, the leaking, the planting, I want a family not an institution,” he said.
A second, separate interview with Anderson Cooper will also air next Sunday night in the United States on CBS’ 60 Minutes.
Harry attacked Buckingham Palace, the household which until four months ago represented Queen Elizabeth II. Harry and Meghan have avoided criticising the late monarch.
“The family motto is ‘never complain, never explain’, it’s just a motto,” he said.
Spare by Prince Harry
“They will feed or have a conversation with the correspondent and that correspondent will literally be spoon-fed information to write the story and down the bottom of it they will say they reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment, but the whole statement is Buckingham Palace commenting.
“So when we’re being told for the last six years we can’t put a statement out to protect you, but you do it for other members of the family, there comes a point where silence is betrayal,” Harry told Cooper.
The duke’s book Spare will be released on January 10. He has not confirmed how much he has been paid for the memoir but reports estimate the figure is around $20 million.
He has donated $US1.5 million to an aids charity he formed and another $US300,000 to the NGO WellChild.
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