Prince Harry is continuing to tell his side of the story in a new set of interviews ahead of the release of his forthcoming tell-all memoir Spare. The Duke of Sussex is set to appear on CBS’s 60 Minutes with journalist Anderson Cooper on Sunday, Jan. 8, where he’ll open up about the rift in the royal family.
The launch follows his bombshell Netflix documentary with wife Meghan Markle, Harry & Meghan, where the couple shared their side of the story including their relationship, marriage and the fallout they experienced after they stepped down as working members of the royal family.
“Every single time I’ve tried to do this privately, there have been briefings, and leakings, and planting of stories against me and my wife,” the royal told Cooper in a preview of the sit-down interview. “They will feed, or have a conversation with the correspondent, and that correspondent will literally be spoon fed information to write the story. And at the bottom of it, they will say that they’ve reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment. But the whole story 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 becomes a point when silence is betrayal.”
Prince Harry also sat down with ITV News’ Tom Bradby in an interview set to air on Jan. 8. In a sneak peek clip of Harry: The Interview, the Duke explains, “It never needed to be this way.”
“I want a family. Not an institution,” said Prince Harry. “They feel as though it’s better to keep us, somehow, as the villains,” seemingly referring to the royal family.
He added, “They’ve shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile.”
The Duke touched upon his relationship with his father, King Charles III, and his brother, William, the Prince of Wales. “I would like to get my father back,” Prince Harry said. “I would like to have my brother back.”
ITV News presenter, Bradby famously interviewed the Sussexes for the Harry & Meghan: An African Journey documentary during their 2019 Africa tour, where he asked Markle how she had been mentally coping with the negative press.
Published by Penguin Random House, Prince Harry’s new book Spare will be released on Jan. 10.
