Prince Harry takes aim at royal family ahead of bombshell memoir release - NBC News

LONDON — Prince Harry volition present different highly publicized stroke to Britain's royal family Sunday, successful a brace of TV interviews 2 days earlier the work of his much-anticipated memoir.

In conversations with Tom Bradby, a quality presenter astatine British broadcaster ITV, and with Anderson Cooper connected CBS' “60 Minutes,” Harry is expected to shed much airy connected the acrimonious royal split.

Timed to coincide with the merchandise of his autobiography, “Spare,” trailers from some interviews amusement Harry accusing his household of fueling antagonistic quality sum astir him and his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.

In the interrogation with Cooper, which airs Sunday astatine 7:30 p.m. ET, Harry says helium has spoken retired publically due to the fact that “Every azygous clip I’ve tried to bash it privately, determination person been briefings and leakings and planting of stories against maine and my wife.”

He adds that statements were not enactment retired to support his household from immoderate of the media sum and “there becomes a constituent erstwhile soundlessness is betrayal.”

Harry besides says his household was “briefing the press,” successful the interrogation with Bradby, which airs Sunday connected Britain’s ITV1 transmission and its streaming platform, ITVX, astatine 9 p.m. section clip (4 p.m. ET).

He besides refuses to perpetrate to attending the May coronation of his father, King Charles III.

“There’s a batch that tin hap betwixt present and then. But you know, the doorway is ever open. The shot is successful their court,” helium says erstwhile asked whether helium volition attend. “I truly anticipation that they are consenting to beryllium down and speech astir it.”

He says that helium inactive believes successful the British monarchy, but that helium doesn't cognize what relation helium would play successful its future.

The interviews travel aft details of Harry's highly anticipated memoir, “Spare,” emerged archetypal successful leaked beforehand copies and past aft it mistakenly went connected merchantability aboriginal successful Spain, contempt choky information astir its publication. NBC News has seen and translated extracts of a Spanish-language mentation of the book.

In the memoir Harry accuses his member of physically attacking him during an argument over his matrimony to Meghan. He besides describes his usage of drugs and suggests that William and Catherine, Princess of Wales, encouraged him to formal arsenic a Nazi astatine a 2005 costume enactment for which helium was wide criticized.

He besides faced disapproval Friday for his assertion successful the publication that he had killed 25 “enemy combatants” successful Afghanistan erstwhile helium served 2 tours with the British army.

Kensington Palace, which represents William, and Buckingham Palace, which represents Charles, declined to remark connected the allegations made successful the publication oregon the trailers, which travel astatine an awkward clip for the monarchy, months aft Queen Elizabeth II’s decease and the ascension of the caller king. 

It follows the merchandise of a six-part Netflix documentary series last month, which shows conscionable however acrimonious the couple’s divided from the household has been, focusing connected Harry and Meghan's 2020 announcement that they would measurement backmost from royal duties.

The 2 archetypal outlined their broadside of the communicative successful their bombshell interrogation with media mogul Oprah Winfrey, accusing members of the household of racism.

William denied that the household was racist successful nationalist comments astatine the time, and the palace said successful a connection that the allegations were “concerning” and that “while immoderate recollections whitethorn vary, they are taken precise earnestly and volition beryllium addressed by the household privately.”