Prince Harry interviews set to raise heat on UK royal family - The Washington Post

In extracts released successful advance, Harry tells ITV writer Tom Bradby that helium cried lone erstwhile aft his mother, Prince Diana, died successful 1997 — astatine her burial. He said helium feels guilt astir not showing emotion erstwhile helium and his member Prince William greeted crowds of mourners extracurricular Kensington Palace, Diana’s London home.

In the book, “Spare,” Harry blames his family’s stiff-upper-lip ethos, saying helium had “learned excessively good … the household maxim that crying is not an option.”

“There were 50,000 bouquets of flowers to our parent and determination we were shaking people’s hands, smiling,” Harry told ITV. “I’ve seen the videos, right, I looked backmost implicit it all. And the bedewed hands that we were shaking, we couldn’t recognize wherefore their hands were wet, but it was each the tears that they were wiping away.

“Everyone thought and felt similar they knew our mum, and the 2 closest radical to her, the 2 astir loved radical by her, were incapable to amusement immoderate emotion successful that moment.”

“Spare” is the latest successful a drawstring of nationalist pronouncements by the prince and his woman Meghan since they quit royal life and moved to California successful 2020, citing what they saw arsenic the media’s racist attraction of Meghan, who is biracial, and a deficiency of enactment from the palace. It follows an interrogation with Oprah Winfrey and a six-part Netflix documentary released past month.

The Associated Press purchased a Spanish-language transcript of the publication successful beforehand of its work astir the satellite connected Tuesday.

In the ghostwritten memoir, Harry, 38, describes the couple’s acrimonious divided from the royal household successful 2020, aft their proposition of a part-time royal relation was rejected. Harry contrasts the withdrawal of the couple’s taxpayer-funded information with the lawsuit of his uncle, Prince Andrew, who was removed arsenic a moving royal implicit his relationship with the U.S. enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Last year, Andrew settled a lawsuit from a pistillate who accused him of sexually abusing her portion she traveled with financier Epstein erstwhile she was 17. Andrew paid an undisclosed sum arsenic portion of the settlement, but didn’t admit wrongdoing.

Harry alleges that nary 1 considered removing Andrew’s information contempt the “shameful scandal.”

The publication besides explores Harry’s grief astatine the decease of his parent and his long-simmering resentment astatine the relation of royal “spare,” overshadowed by the “heir” — older member William. He recounts arguments and a carnal altercation with William, reveals however helium mislaid his virginity (in a field) and describes utilizing cocaine and cannabis.

He besides says helium killed 25 Taliban fighters portion serving arsenic an Apache chopper aviator successful Afghanistan — a assertion criticized by some the Taliban and British subject veterans.

Royal officials haven’t commented connected the allegations, though allies person pushed back connected the claims, mostly anonymously.

Veteran British writer Jonathan Dimbleby, a biographer and person of King Charles III, said Saturday that Harry’s revelations were the benignant “that you’d expect … from a benignant of B-list celebrity,” and that the king would beryllium pained and frustrated by them.

In the ITV interview, Harry says helium wants reconciliation with the royal family, but “the shot is successful their court.”