Four revelations Prince Harry has shared before the release of new book
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Prince Harry has given more insight into his feelings about several moments and people in his life, including his stepmother Camilla, the queen consort, and his late mother Princess Diana.
In two interviews ahead of the release of his memoir Spare, the Duke of Sussex revealed new details on his feelings about members of the British Royal family, including how he thinks his mother would feel about his and Prince William’s relationship.
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These are some of the top revelations from Harry’s two high-profile interviews with Anderson Cooper on CBS News’s 60 Minutes Sunday night and Michael Strahan on ABC’s Good Morning America Monday morning.
Diana would be “heartbroken” by the brothers’ relationship
When asked by Strahan how Diana would feel about the relationship between the two brothers, Harry said she would be “heartbroken” but placed the majority of the blame on William.
“I think she’d be sad. I think she’d looking at it long term to know that there was certain things we need to go through in order to heal the relationship, I think she would be heartbroken that it’s ended up where it ended up. I think she would be heartbroken about the fact that William, his office were part of these stories, and William and I made a deal [that] no matter what, we would never let our offices fight against each other,” Harry said.
Harry did say that “without question” he played a role in the fallout between the two, but claimed he has tried to reconcile while William has not.
Prince Harry and Prince William did not want then-Prince Charles to marry Camilla
One of the key revelations that Harry shared in his 60 minutes interview last night was that he and William did not want their father to marry Camilla.
The now-King Charles III had divorced Diana, the brothers’ mother, in 1996 before she died in a car crash in 1997. Charles and Camilla, the queen consort, were married in 2005, a move Harry thought was “unnecessary.”
“We thought that it was gonna cause more harm than good and that if he was now with his person, that surely that’s enough. Why go that far when you don’t necessarily need to? We wanted him to be happy. And we saw how happy he was with her. So, at the time, it was, ‘Ok,’” Harry told Cooper.
Relationship with Camilla remains frosty
Despite Harry writing in Spare that he “even wanted Camilla to be happy,” the relationship with his stepmother appears to still be frosty.
Harry said on Good Morning America that he has not spoken to Camilla in “a long time.” While on 60 Minutes, he described her as the “villain,” alluding to her role in Charles’s failed marriage with Diana.
“She was the villain. She was the third person in their marriage. She needed to rehabilitate her image,” Harry said.
The Duke of Sussex also claimed that in order to repair her image, Camilla and the palace would do almost anything, saying “there was going to be people or bodies left in the street.”
Harry claims he was in denial about Diana’s death
Harry also revealed last night that he believed Diana was not actually dead and that it may have been “all part of the plan.”
Diana, who died when Harry was 12, had divorced from then-Prince Charles in 1996, a year before she was killed in a car crash in Paris, France. Diana’s driver crashed in a tunnel in the French city when he was speeding while intoxicated, killing three of the four occupants in the car.
Harry said he believed for years that she was only hiding and had not been killed. He claims he sought out the police report in his 20s and examined images of the crash to ensure his mother was harmed in the crash.
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The Duke of Sussex also said he and his brother have doubts about the findings of the police report from the crash, which put the blame on the driver rather than the paparazzi.
Harry’s two interviews on CBS and ABC come after he and his wife, Meghan Markle, released a multiple-episode docu-series with Netflix detailing their relationship and their exit from the royal family. Harry’s book Spare is set to be released Tuesday.