Duke of Sussex tells ITV 'it never needed to be this way' and that 'I want a family, not an institution'
Harry has previously said that Spare is written “not as the prince I was born but as the man I have become”. It was later removed from the Sun’s website at Clarkson’s request. “The family motto is ‘never complain, never explain’, but it’s just a motto,” he added. [Prince Harry](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/prince-harry), expected to again rock Buckingham Palace with revelations of its inner workings, is one of two interviews to be broadcast on the same day either side of the Atlantic. It will include “the highs and lows, the mistakes, the lessons learned”, he has said, promising it will be a “first-hand account of my life that’s accurate and wholly truthful”. But the whole story is Buckingham Palace commenting.
The couple has drawn criticism for airing their grievances in a Netflix documentary series after retreating from royal life over unwanted press attention.
Harry and Meghan stepped back from their royal duties in January 2020 and now reside in California, and while they still retain their royal titles, Buckingham Palace [announced](https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/02/19/harry-and-meghan-will-not-return-as-working-members-of-britains-royal-family/?sh=44bf9780658c) in 2021 that they will not return as working royals. The Sussexes have garnered [criticism](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63922657) for using a splashy Netflix series and Harry’s upcoming memoir to speak out against the royals and draw attention to themselves and their life, given that they retreated from royal life in part because of the unwanted press attention they received. [Prince Harry tells 60 Minutes about his decision to speak publicly](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/prince-harry-60-minutes-speaking-publicly-2023-01-02/) (CBS News) [Prince Harry and Meghan say they didn't step back over privacy concerns](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63922657) (BBC News) [Here’s What We Learned From Harry And Meghan’s Netflix Documentary](https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2022/12/08/heres-what-we-learned-from-harry-and-meghans-netflix-documentary/?sh=1a58f9127a75) (Forbes) [Everything We Learned From Part Two Of Harry And Meghan’s Netflix Documentary](https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2022/12/15/everything-we-learned-from-part-two-of-harry-and-meghans-netflix-documentary/?sh=4a5b22bd30d4) (Forbes) [ratings](https://deadline.com/2022/12/harry-meghan-uk-audience-ratings-netflix-barb-1235194470/) but largely [negative reviews](https://www.npr.org/2022/12/09/1141845597/harry-and-meghan-netflix-reviews) in the U.K., and has led to [plunging](https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/britons-more-likely-judge-harry-and-meghan-documentary-inaccurate-depiction-events-crown) [approval ratings](https://globalnews.ca/news/9348998/prince-harry-meghan-markle-documentary-popularity-drop/) for Harry and Meghan among the British public and [calls](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/09/tory-mp-plans-legislation-strip-harry-meghan-royal-titles#:~:text=A%20Conservative%20MP%20has%20said,the%201917%20Titles%20Deprivation%20Act.) for their royal titles to be stripped. It came after the couple first detailed their concerns to Oprah Winfrey in a March 2021 [interview](https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/03/07/palace-had-concerns-about-how-dark-harry-and-meghans-son-would-be-meghan-says/?sh=1b89bcff6e20), which included accusing the royal family of [racism](https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/03/07/palace-had-concerns-about-how-dark-harry-and-meghans-son-would-be-meghan-says/?sh=1b89bcff6e20) and failing to protect them, even when the criticism against Meghan resulted in her having [suicidal thoughts](https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/03/07/meghan-struggled-with-suicidal-thoughts-after-marrying-harry-she-tells-oprah/?sh=1d99ad8c3a71). [details](https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2022/12/08/heres-what-we-learned-from-harry-and-meghans-netflix-documentary/?sh=1a58f9127a75) a wide range of grievances the couple had during their time as working royals, including the unrelenting and often false press attention Meghan received, which Harry and Meghan often pinned on the palace and other family members’ press teams feeding journalists negative stories.
Britain's Prince Harry said his troubled relationship with the royal family "never needed to be this way" and he wants to get his father King Charles and ...
"They've shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile," he said. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story LONDON, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Harry said his troubled relationship with the royal family "never needed to be this way" and he wants to get his father King Charles and his brother "back", in an excerpt from an interview with broadcaster ITV released on Monday.
The Duke of Sussex is heard in excerpts of two broadcast interviews ahead of the release of his book.
The book follows the release of Netflix documentary Harry and Meghan, in which Prince Harry said it was "terrifying" to have his [brother "scream and shout" at him](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63983062) during a summit to discuss the couple's future in the Royal Family. The new trailers from ITV and CBS 60 Minutes tease the two big TV interviews Prince Harry has done ahead of his book "Spare" coming out. Filmed in California where the Sussexes live, the ITV sit-down will also see the duke refer to "the leaking and the planting" of stories, before adding: "I want a family, not an institution". "They feel as though it is better to keep us somehow as the villains," he adds. "They will feed or have a conversation with a correspondent, and that correspondent will literally be spoon-fed information and write the story, and at the bottom of it, they will say they have reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment. In the CBS trailers, Prince Harry - the Duke of Sussex - speaks to CBS 60 Minutes journalist Anderson Cooper in a chat the broadcaster described as "explosive". Prince Harry has said "I would like to get my father back, I would like to have my brother back," in a trailer for an interview ahead of the release of his upcoming memoirs. In a second trailer released by CBS, Prince Harry said he could not see himself returning to the institution as a full-time royal. The duke claims he was "betrayed" along with "briefings and leakings and planting of stories against me and my wife". The prince also said he was "betrayed" in a trailer for US broadcaster CBS. In a trailer for the sit-down interview with ITV's Tom Bradby, he says "they've shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile," although it is not clear who he is referring to.
The British Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry, has said he wants his father and brother back during an ITV interview due to be released this Sunday, ...
CBS has described the full interview as "revealing" and Prince Harry’s book as "explosive". "They (Buckingham Palace) will feed or have a conversation with a correspondent, and that correspondent will literally be spoon-fed information and write the story, and at the bottom of it, they will say they have reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment. In a series of clips from the duke’s ITV conversation, Harry tells presenter Tom Bradby: "It never needed to be this way", and refers to "the leaking and the planting" before adding: "I want a family, not an institution." — 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) Anderson Cooper will interview Prince Harry on 60 Minutes next Sunday, January 8, on CBS. It will be Prince Harry's first U.S.
The Duke of Sussex has said "silence is betrayal" over Buckingham Palace's treatment of him and his wife Meghan Markle.
"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. "And that correspondent will literally be spoon-fed information and write the story. But the whole story is Buckingham Palace commenting. I would like to get my brother back." "I would like to get my father back. Prince Harry has said "I would like to get my father back.
In new TV interviews and his memoir, “Spare,” Prince Harry will discuss what led him and his wife, Meghan, to break with the British royal family.
Its publisher, Penguin Random House, says it is a “landmark publication” written with “raw unflinching honesty.” The interviews are expected to generate publicity for Harry’s memoir, which is scheduled to be released Jan. The couple have also aired their grievances to millions of viewers across the world — from an interview with Oprah Winfrey to their Netflix show. [funeral of Queen Elizabeth II](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/19/queen-elizabeth-funeral/?itid=lk_inline_manual_22) in September, sparking speculation over a possible rapprochement. In an interview with Anderson Cooper on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” also airing Sunday, Harry attacked Buckingham Palace for what he said were negative media leaks against him and his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. Charles’s coronation is set to take place in May at Westminster Abbey.
We're starting to know more about this family than our own. Following a TV interview with Oprah in 2021, and the release of the Harry & Megan docu-series ...
The English prince sat down with well-known American TV host Anderson Cooper for a “60 Minutes” interview, described by the channel as Prince Harry’s “first U.S. Two new interviews with the former royal — on the US show 60 Minutes and on ITV1 in the UK — are scheduled to air Sunday, two days before his book is released. Following a TV interview with Oprah in 2021, and the release of the Harry & Megan docu-series on Netflix just last month, Prince Harry is continuing to speak out about the rift between him and the royal family.
In a trailer for Prince Harry's latest TV spots, he explains that he wants to reconcile with his brother and father - could these new interviews challenge ...
Either way, every time Prince Harry speaks out in public, reconciliation feels further away from repair. In the trailers, Harry says he and Meghan have been cast as "villains". In the few seconds that have been released, the trailers also reveal Harry's hope for reconciliation, and to have his father and brother back. His father is now King, and his brother the heir, such powerful players in the institution that many wonder if there is a way of reconciling one without the other. If the trailers are anything to go by, we now have more of a sense of what to expect in Prince Harry's book. In a trailer for Prince Harry's latest TV spots, he explains that he wants to reconcile with his brother and father - could these new interviews challenge the Duke where other shows haven't?
Will any of the royal family react publicly to the duke's memoir? The betting would be on Prince William.
As for the king, sources regularly claim that the door is always open to Harry and Meghan. ITV, in promoting the interview, said Harry would speak about his personal relationships and “never-before-heard details” surrounding her death. Unfettered by protocol, he has claimed her publicly, time and again, and there is every expectation this will form a significant part of the book. Harry has already alleged his brother screamed and shouted at him during the Sandringham meeting that sealed the Sussexes’ departure from the UK and the royal fold. So far the contents of the “candid” memoir remain unleaked. The trailers for the two interviews, both of which are to be broadcast on Sunday, revisit similar themes to those aired in the six-part Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan, which was streamed last month.
Prince Harry will appear in two new interviews over the weekend in which he's set to mention his family, with the situation having been a topic of ...
The Royal Family are never going to say anything". She said reconcilation can happen, adding: "It needs to start with Harry putting a sock in it frankly. He's the one with the problem [and] who keeps going on about. [And] he doesn't say what he wants." She said: "The problem is his. [King Charles III](https://www.irishmirror.ie/all-about/king-charles-iii), 74, saying that he [wants to reconcile with his family](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/breaking-prince-harry-says-wants-28856416).
Prince Harry accused the British royal family of casting he and his wife Meghan Markle as “villains” after the release of their controversial Netflix ...
[Harry & Meghan](https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2022/12/08/heres-what-we-learned-from-harry-and-meghans-netflix-documentary/?sh=67d87ddd7a75), the couple’s Netflix docuseries that began streaming last month, was the [ biggest documentary premiere](https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2022/12/13/harry--meghan-was-netflixs-largest-documentary-premiere-ever/?sh=20787a6c7e40) in the history of the platform. Harry and Meghan have previously said [racism](https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2021/03/08/racism-was-a-large-part-of-the-reason-why-the-sussexes-left-the-uk-harry-tells-oprah-in-new-clip/) played a large role in why they stepped down as senior working members of the family, and said that the palace did not offer Meghan [enough mental health support](https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/03/07/meghan-struggled-with-suicidal-thoughts-after-marrying-harry-she-tells-oprah/) during her time in the U.K. in early 2020, have [reportedly sparked tension](https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2022/12/01/harry-and-meghan-drop-trailer-for-controversial-new-netflix-documentary/?sh=20b4ec082659) between the couple and Harry’s family. The title, [Spare](https://www.forbes.com/sites/guymartin/2022/10/29/the-soft-20-million-book-drop-prince-harrys-tell-all-called-spare-has-a-publication-date-a-cover-shot-and-is-primed-for-impact/?sh=4484dd2f58b8), is a nod to the phrase “ [heir and a spare](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29111548),” referring to the practice of royal families having at least two children to ensure the continuation of the family line if the eldest child were to die. [Penguin Random House](https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/07/19/prince-harry-to-write-an-intimate-and-heartfelt-memoir-for-penguin-random-house/?sh=1a0472a17d66) announced in July it would publish Harry’s memoir, saying the book will “offer an honest and captivating personal portrait” of the high-profile prince. [Prince Harry Defends Netflix Doc And Media Appearances: ‘Silence Is Betrayal’](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/01/02/prince-harry-defends-netflix-doc-and-media-appearances-silence-is-betrayal/?sh=27bab6531168) (Forbes) The 90-minute interview between Harry and Bradbury will air on ITV in the U.K. Harry’s interview with Cooper on 60 Minutes will also air Sunday. [silence is betrayal](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/01/02/prince-harry-defends-netflix-doc-and-media-appearances-silence-is-betrayal/?sh=27bab6531168).” [address their concerns](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/01/02/prince-harry-defends-netflix-doc-and-media-appearances-silence-is-betrayal/?sh=27bab6531168) with the royal family privately, “there have been briefings and leakages and planting of stories against me and my wife” by palace insiders in the British press, he said. television](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/01/02/prince-harry-defends-netflix-doc-and-media-appearances-silence-is-betrayal/?sh=27bab6531168), Harry spoke to American journalist Anderson Cooper for 60 Minutes, and defended himself and his wife Meghan against accusations that the couple are airing out his family’s dirty laundry. [no willingness to reconcile](https://www.itv.com/news/2023-01-02/prince-harry-says-i-want-a-family-not-an-institution-in-itv-trailer).”