“During these 38 years, many people have spoken about my life in an interested way. This made me think that the time had come to explain my own story,” he said during the interview, broadcast a few days after the controversy raised by revelations in his memoirs. about disputes with his brother, his sex life and drug use.
“I left my home country with my wife and son in fear for our lives,” Harry told ITV about his decision to move to California.
The prince of England’s autobiography, titled “Spare”, is scheduled to be released worldwide on January 10, but much of the content leaked on Thursday when it was mistakenly released early in Spain.
Among the leaked details is the accusation that his brother William – heir to the throne – attacked him during an argument about his wife, the former American actress Meghan Markle, an account of how he lost his virginity, a confession about drug use and the affirmation of who killed 25 people while deployed in Afghanistan.
During the interview broadcast on Sunday, but recorded before the book’s content was leaked, Harry again accused the royal family of “complicity” with the hostility of the tabloids against Meghan Markle and himself.
the same sunday, Sunday Times He cited sources close to Prince William who say he is “sad” but remains silent for the good of his family and country.
“She cried once”
In the interview of just over an hour and a half, Harry stated that he still believes in the monarchy, although he does not know if it will play a role in his future.
In the latest video, Harry revealed that he “cried once” after his mother Diana died and felt guilty for not being able to express his grief, as he waved to the crowd of attendees. He recounted that he once asked a driver to take him along the route that Diana’s vehicle took through the Paris tunnel at the same speed at which the accident that claimed her mother’s life occurred.
“I’ve been asked if I want to open another investigation,” Harry said of Diana’s death. “At this stage I really don’t see what the point would be.”
The book focuses on his strained relationship with William, and he claimed that his older brother tried to hit him during an argument over Meghan. “I saw this red mist on him,” she recounts. In this regard, he said that his incipient relationship with Meghan generated a distance with William and his wife Kate from him.
He denied reports in the press that the two couples initially hit it off, though he stated that “I always hoped the four of us would get along.”
“But very quickly it turned Meghan versus Kate (in the press),” she added.