HARRY INTERVIEW LIVE: Reaction to Prince Harry's Royal family accusations after ITV interview

Prince Harry has revealed that his older brother Prince William was convinced that their mother, Princess Diana, was alive, saying that both brothers believed she would one day get in touch with her sons and whisk them away.

According to Harry, 38, he and William, 40, 'talked about' the idea that their mother had not died in the 1997 Paris car crash that saved her life, but had instead decided to 'disappear for a time' - with the Duke of Sussex explaining that they believed it was 'all part of a plan'.

'For a long time, I just refused to accept that she was... she was gone,' he told 60 Minutes host Anderson Cooper in an explosive new interview.

'Um, part of, you know, she would never do this to us, but also part of, maybe this is all part of a plan.

'[I believed she had disappeared] for a time, and then that she would call us and that we would go and join her, yeah.' 

Harry - who also wrote about this in his bombshell new memoir Spare - added to Cooper that his brother 'had similar thoughts', saying: 'William and I talked about it as well. He had similar thoughts.'

He admitted that he kept this belief alive for 'many, many years', adding that he 'had huge amounts of hope' that his mother would one day return to be with her children - until he ultimately demanded that he be given access to the police report about her death, which contained graphic images of the scene of her crash. 

Harry admitted that he has not spoken to his brother or his father 'in a while' but said that he looks forward to being able to find peace. 

He said he doesn't currently call or text William. 

'Currently, no. But I look forward forward to us being able to find peace.'

Harry said he and his father haven't spoke for quite a while and that he doesn't see himself returning to being a full-time member of the royal family. 

When asked if the 'full-scale rupture' as called in his book, could be healed, Harry said yes.   

'The ball is very much in their court, but, you know, Meghan and I have continued to say that we will openly apologize for anything that we did wrong, but every time we ask that question, no one's telling us the specifics or anything.

There needs to be a constructive conversation, one that can happen in private that doesn't get leaked.'

Harry said he and Meghan will never renounce their titles because 'what difference would it make.'

Harry said the constant criticism and pressure led him to fear that history would repeat itself and that something would happen to Meghan.   

'I feared, I feared a lot that the end result, the fact that I lost my mum when I was 12 years old, could easily happen again to my wife.'

In January 2020, Harry and Meghan announced they would be stepping back as senior members of the royal family. They moved to California three months later. 

When asked why not renounce your titles as duke and duchess, Harry responded: 'And what difference would that make?'

'And every single time I've tried to do it privately there have been briefings and leakings and planting of stories against me and my wife. You know, the family motto is never complain, never explain. But it's just a motto.'

Harry said that when he was told that the Queen was sick and under medical supervision, he contacted William to be on the plane and be by her side as soon as possible. 

'I asked my brother, I said 'what are your plans, how are you and Kate getting up there?''

'And then a couple of hours later all of the family members that live in the Windsor and Ascot area were jumping on a plane together, a plane with 12, 14 maybe 16 seats.'

'I was not invited.'

By the time Harry arrived at Balmoral, the Queen had died.

The Duke of Sussex, 38, was back in the UK with his wife, Meghan Markle, for a slew of charity events last September when his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II's health suddenly declined on September 8.

The Queen died later that day - but when reports started to circulate that Harry didn't arrive to the castle until more than two hours after her passing, while the rest of the family got there before her death - many were left to wonder why he came so late.

Now, during an explosive new interview with 60 Minutes, the royal has claimed that his delayed arrival was the fault of his family members - saying that he was not included in their travel plans, despite the fact that there was plenty of room for him on the plane that they all flew on to get to Balmoral.

He told host Anderson Cooper that he texted his brother, Prince William, 40, to see how he and his wife, Kate Middleton, 41, were going to get to the estate, located in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, but that he was never given the flight details.

Harry said William asked him not to tell Meghan about the fight.

And he didn't, he said, until she asked about the cuts on his back. 

'I didn't until she-- until she saw on the-- on my back. She goes, 'What's that?' I was like, 'Huh, what?' I actually didn't know what she was talking about. I looked in the mirror. I was like, 'Oh s***.' Well, 'cause I'd never s-I hadn't seen it.'

The Duke of Sussex described a stand-up row that ended with the Prince of Wales grabbing him by the collar and throwing him to the floor, shattering a dog bowl with his back.

The furious row allegedly broke out in the kitchen of his London home, Nottingham Cottage, in the grounds of Kensington Palace in 2019 – shortly before Megxit.

William is said to have branded Meghan 'difficult', 'rude' and 'abrasive' and insisted he was trying to help his younger brother during a meeting about 'the whole rolling catastrophe' of their failing relationship and Harry's rows with the Press.

Harry accused his brother of 'parroting the Press narrative' about his American wife before a screaming match ensued, ending in a physical altercation, the book claims. He says he gave the heir to the throne a glass of water and said: 'Willy, I can't speak to you when you're like this'.

Describing what he claims happened next, and insisting he was scared, the former soldier said: 'He set down the water, called me another name, then came at me. It all happened so fast. So very fast. He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor.  I landed on the dog's bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out'.

Harry claims that William had then urged him to fight back, saying that is what would happen when they scrapped as children. 

But the duke claims he refused, claiming that William left and then returned 'looking regretful, and apologised'.

William then 'turned and called back: "You don't need to tell Meg about this".'

Harry claims he said: 'You mean that you attacked me?', to which William replied: 'I didn't attack you, Harold'.

Harry says joining the military gave him a sense of purpose.

'That was my calling, I felt healing from that,' he said.

He said being in the military helped him turn pain into purpose.

Prince Harry credited the use of psychedelic drugs with helping him deal with the 'grief' and 'trauma' he felt after the tragic death of his mom, Princess Diana .

The Duke of Sussex, 38, spoke out about his past drug use during an explosive new sit down interview with 60 Minutes, he called psychedelics like ayahuasca and magic mushrooms his 'medicine' after the huge 'loss' of his mother in 1997.

While Harry was only 12 when Diana tragically died in a car accident, he admitted in his upcoming book, Spare, that he struggled to come to grips with her sudden passing.

But the former royal said using psychedelics when he got older ultimately 'cleared away the idea' that he needed be sad to prove he 'missed' his mom.

'I would never recommend people to do this recreationally,' he said during the one-hour tell-all interview. 

'But doing it with the right people if you are suffering from a huge amount of loss, grief or trauma, then these things have a way of working as a medicine.

'For me, they cleared the windscreen, the windshield, the misery of loss. They cleared away this idea that I had in my head that ... I needed to cry to prove to my mother that I missed her. When in fact, all she wanted was for me to be happy.'

Harry says he believed for many years that his mother was not actually dead.

He requested to see photos of the crash scene to that he could understand that it was true that she had died.

'I had huge amounts of hope,' he says.

According to Harry, he wanted to see these images because they provided 'proof' that she had really gone. 

'Proof that she was in the car,' he told Anderson Cooper in a 60 Minutes interview on Sunday when asked why he'd requested to see the report.

'Proof that she was injured. And proof that the very paparazzi that chased her into the tunnel were the ones that were taking photographs - photographs of her lying half dead on the back seat of the car.'

'All I saw was the back of my mum's head-- slumped on the back seat. There were other more gruesome photographs, but I will be eternally grateful to him for denying me the ability to inflict pain on myself by seeing that. Because that's the kinda stuff that sticks in your mind forever.'

It wasn't until he was 23 and he visited the tunnel in Paris where she died that he finally believed she was truly gone. 

'I wanted to see whether it was possible driving at the speed that Henri Paul was driving that you could lose control of a car and plow into a pillar killing almost everybody in that car. I need to take this journey. I need to ride the same route.'

In Harry's new book 'Spare,' he writes about how he and his brother weren't satisfied with the results of a 2006 investigation by London police concluding that the driver, Henri Paul, had been drinking and the crash was a 'tragic accident.'

'William and I considered reopening the inquest. Because there were so many gaps and so many holes in it. Which just didn't add up and didn't make sense.'

He said that he doesn't feel he has all the answers about his mom's death. 

'I don't think I do. And I don't think my brother does either. I don't think the world does. Um - do I need any more than I already know? No. I don't think it would change much.'

Prince Harry candidly admitted that he used to watch videos of his late mother Princess Diana and 'muster up memories of her' in an attempt to cry over her death.

He said felt like he was 'unable to show any emotion' in public after her death in 1997, and that he had only shed tears when she was buried.

'There was this weight on my chest that I felt for so many years that I was never able to cry,' he told host Anderson Cooper, according to a transcript of the interview that DailyMail.com received ahead of the pre-taped interview's release. 

'So I was constantly trying to find a way to cry, but... in even sitting on my sofa and going over as many memories as I could muster up about my mum. And sometimes I watched videos online.'

However, Harry says that, no matter how hard he tried, he 'couldn't' shed a tear - something that filled him with 'guilt' for years. 

That guilt is something that the Duke struggled with from the moment that he and his brother William greeted members of the public who had turned out to pay their respects to Diana on the day of her funeral, with Harry explaining that he was stunned at how many people were sobbing over his mother's death.

According to Harry - who also reveals in his book that he and William 'begged' their father not to marry Camilla - this desire to transform her public image made her 'dangerous'.

He accuses his step-mother of 'trading information' with the press in an attempt to get more positive stories written about herself, before sensationally suggesting that her 'connections' with the media would end up with 'people or bodies left in the street'.

The 38-year-old Duke of Sussex to aim at the Queen Consort while speaking with CBS News' 60 Minutes host Anderson Cooper, who questioned Harry about several very damaging allegations he made about Camilla in the book's pages.

Referring back to a 1995 interview in which his mother, Princess Diana, famously referred to Camilla as the 'third person in her marriage', Harry says that this admission turned the now-Queen Consort into a 'villain', adding: 'She needed to rehabilitate her image.'

'[Her need to rehabilitate her image] made her dangerous because of the connections that she that she was forging within the British press,' he told Cooper, according to an official transcript of the interview - which DailyMail.com received before the interview began airing. 

'And there was open willingness on both sides to trade of information. And with a family built on hierarchy, and with her, on the way to being Queen Consort, there was gonna be people or bodies left in the street because of that.'

Harry talked about videos of the day before his mother's funeral as being 'bizarre', mostly because he and William were smiling.

He told Cooper how people's hands were wet from wiping tears away.

Harry said he felt like 'some sort of middle person for their grief' while taking flowers from mourners and placing them with others.

He said he also remembers walking behind Princess Diana's coffin, remembering how silent the walk was.

He made the claim as part of an interview during the publicity blitz for his bombshell memoir, Spare, which was leaked before the weekend.

Harry begins the interview talking about his brother William. He says that he loves them and nothing that he has written has been intended to hurt his family. 

'My brother and I love each other. I love him deeply. There has been a lot of pain between the two of us, especially the last six years. Um- None of anything that I’ve written, anything I’ve included is ever intended to hurt my family.'

Harry sat down for an interview with Anderson Cooper on Sunday where he spoke about his new book Spare, revealing new bombshells. 

'But it does give a full picture of the situation as we were growing up, and also squashes this idea that somehow my wife was the one that destroyed the relationship between these two brothers.'

He talked about their relationship, telling Cooper that while in school, his brother told him 'pretend we don't know each other.'

'We had a very similar traumatic experience and we deal with it in very different ways,' he said.

As Prince Harry's second interview begins, the Daily Mail can reveal that the Duke of Sussex launched another extraordinary attack on King Charles' wife Camilla, branding her 'dangerous' and a 'villain', as he continued his publicity book for his explosive memoir Spare.

The 38-year-old Duke of Sussex to aim at the Queen Consort while speaking with CBS News' 60 Minutes host Anderson Cooper, who questioned Harry about several very damaging allegations he made about Camilla in the book's pages.

Other bombshells revealed are:

As the Duke once again blasts his closest family members in the 60 Minutes interview, DailyMail.com can reveal he also:

Claims he was 'not invited' on the plane that his family took up to Balmoral upon learning that the Queen was unwell

Admits that he used to look at videos of his mother, Diana, and 'go over memories of her' in an attempt to make himself cry

Says his brother, Prince William, initially refused to believe that Diana was really dead and that they both believed she 'would call us and we would go and join her'

Reveals he took psychedelic drugs like ayahuasca and psilocybin as 'experimental treatments' and says they 'cleared the... misery of loss' for him

Believes that psychedelics can 'work as a medicine' for those who are 'suffering from a huge amount of loss, grief, or trauma'

Suggests he and Meghan will never renounce their titles because 'what difference would it make'

Defends his decision to air his grievances against his family so publicly, suggesting public attacks are the only 'language that perhaps they understand'

Admits that he has not spoken to his brother or his father 'in a while'

Prince Harry has accused Jeremy Clarkson of inciting violence towards women in a 'cruel' column in The Sun dreaming of a Meghan 'shame parade'.

In an interview with ITV's Tom Bradby to promote his new memoir, Spare, Harry referred to comments made by former Top Gear presenter Clarkson, 62, who wrote that he 'hated' the Duchess of Sussex and dreamed of her being paraded through British towns and publicly shamed.

Harry said: 'When we're talking about accountability... the Jeremy Clarkson article, so not only did what he said was horrific and is hurtful and cruel towards my wife, but it also encourages other people around the UK and around the world, men particularly, to go and think that it's acceptable to treat women that way.

The Duke of Sussex accused the royal family of a 'really horrible reaction' and said his family were caught on the back foot on the day Queen Elizabeth II died.

In an interview with Tom Bradby on ITV yesterday evening, Harry said other royals had a 'horrible reaction'.

His book, Spare, also claims that the Duchess of Sussex was banned from Balmoral on the day of Queen Elizabeth II's death.

Prince Harry spoke of how his family was 'on the back foot' when the late monarch died in September, and told the presenter he witnessed 'leaking and planting'.

Harry's first UK interview in support of his memoirs last night saw him questioned over a legal claim he has launched against the Mail.

Prince Harry, together with a group including Sir Elton John and Baroness Doreen Lawrence, have alleged that tapping, bugging and other illegal activities were carried out against them, which the Mail vehemently denies.

ITV interviewer Tom Bradby warned Harry that the accusations he has made are ‘very grave and the stakes... very high’, adding: ‘Let’s be clear... You would owe them a pretty abject apology if you’re not right, if it’s not proven.’

Harry responded: ‘Well if it wasn’t... they would presumably sue us.’

Not long before she died, Princess Diana sat William and Harry down together on the striped sofa in her drawing room at Kensington Palace. The brothers had been bickering, as they often did, and Diana decided to dispense some maternal advice.

‘Listen,’ she began, ‘you have to look after each other.’

She reminded them that because of their unique position as royal princes, and objects of curiosity and envy to the world, each was the one person the other should always — her emphasis — be able to rely on.

‘Papa,’ she said of her ex-husband Charles, ‘has his life and I have mine, so it’s important that you two have each other, be there for each other.’

Prince Harry is 'eternally grateful' that his private secretary showed him pictures of Diana during her car crash after the young Royal asked for evidence she had died.

In his first primetime television interview promoting his new memoir, Spare, Harry said he saw photographs of his mother 'slumped on the back of the seat' after asking for proof of her death.

Princess Diana was 36 when she was killed in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997 while being pursued by paparazzi.

Speaking to ITV's Tom Bradby, Harry said: 'The idea that she'd been taken away and that William and I were now motherless, was something that I just couldn't comprehend. I'd heard people talking about there being photographs.

In a series of bombshells twisting the knife on his closest family members, Harry claimed royals has sought to protect their own reputation 'to the detriment' of him and Meghan and they were 'complicit' in their 'pain and suffering'.

He described a fractious relationship between his wife and Kate Middleton, while also addressing the rift with his brother and his sensational accusation towards Camilla of plotting to marry Charles.

But social media has exploded amid the bombshell interview, with claims of 'hypocrisy' over Harry's desire for his family to reach out privately when he is publicly discussing behind closed doors conversations.

One user tweeted: 'Harry literally turning the British Monarchy into an episode of The Kardashian's. This is cringe.'

The Duke of Sussex was speaking in tonight's interview with ITV's Tom Bradby.

He said that when he and his older brother were children, they would 'fight all the time' and would 'shoot each other with BB guns, we used to have firework fights'.

Harry then spoke of the 'red mist' of anger that he had for 'many years', he saw in his brother, before William allegedly pushed him over and onto a dog bowl inside Nottingham Cottage at Kensington Palace.

He added: 'I can pretty much guarantee today that if I wasn't doing therapy sessions like I was and being able to process that anger and frustration that I would've fought back, one hundred percent.'

Ronald Reagan's daughter said Prince Harry should have 'been quiet' and said he'll regret writing his tell-all memoir Spare as she did with her own.

Patti Davis, 70, wrote her own explosive memoir The Way I See It in 1992 and has since come to regret exposing the inner workings of her family - much like the Duke of Sussex is gearing up to do on January 10.

As new bombshells drop about the book, including a claim that the two Princes got into a physical altercation, Davis is worried for Prince Harry and is now offering her advice.

'Years ago, someone asked me what I would say to my younger self if I could. Without hesitating I answered: 'That’s easy. I’d have said: "Be quiet,"' she wrote in a New York Times op-ed.

Prince Harry has said his explosive memoir Spare is 'essential for historical fact and significance' in his first primetime interview plugging the book.

The Duke of Sussex, 38, said the process of writing the autobiography was 'painful' and 'cathartic' during his 90-minute bombshell sit-down with ITV's Tom Bradby on Sunday night.

It comes after damaging extracts from the 416-page book were revealed this week following its accidental early release in Spain, including alleged physical altercations between William and Harry and criticisms of King Charles' parenting.

Questioned on whether he was 'looking back too much' with his interview with Bradby and releasing his memoir, the Duke of Sussex said: 'We always knew that these two projects, both the Netflix documentary and the book - one being our story and one very much being my story - they were look-back projects.'

Prince Harry has sensationally accused his family of being 'complicit' in the 'pain and suffering' inflicted on his wife and compared them to 'abusers'.

In a bombshell interview to plug his memoir, he suggested they helped to 'trash' his and Meghan's reputations, forcing them to move to California, and have 'shown no willingness to reconcile'.

The prince's astonishing claims came in a 90-minute discussion with ITV presenter and old friend Tom Bradby. But he sensationally conceded that his family were not racist, although he believes them guilty of 'unconscious bias'.

Harry backed the Queen's former lady in waiting, Lady Susan Hussey, who was embroiled in a toxic race row last month, saying she 'never meant any harm'

One of the most jaw-dropping aspects of Spare is not Harry’s fights with his brother or warblings about his frost-bitten appendage – but how he turns the most mundane irritations into slights he has harboured for decades.

From rows over parking spaces to how he didn’t have enough light in his apartment, nothing is too insignificant for material in his lucrative tome.

One such section concerns his living arrangements when the prince first moved into Kensington Palace.

Harry was ‘assigned’ an apartment ‘in the semi-basement of the palace’ by Charles and Camilla. ‘In other words, half buried,’ he complains.

A string of women have rushed forward to deny taking Prince Harry’s virginity after he set tongues wagging with a lurid account of a rendezvous in a field in his bombshell memoir.

Former model Suzannah Harvey, 44, and interior designer Catherine Ommanney, 51, have joined Liz Hurley in ruling themselves out as the Duke of Sussex’s first lover.

In his book Spare, Harry revealed he lost his virginity to an older horse-loving woman behind a busy pub – thought to be the Rattlebone Inn in Wiltshire – at the age of 17 in 2001.

Describing the moment in the English edition, he said he felt like a ‘young stallion’, adding: ‘Quick ride, after which she’d smacked my rump and sent me off to graze.’

Prince Harry has denied members of the royal family were accused of racism in he and his wife's bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey.

The Duke of Sussex said Meghan Markle's claims that a family member made 'troubling' comments about the skin colour of his son, Archie, related to 'unconscious bias', not racism.

In an exchange with Tom Bradby on ITV on Sunday night, Harry said the incident involving Ngozi Fulani and Lady Susan Hussey 'is a very good example of the environment within the institution'.

When the conversation moved to the Oprah interview, Bradby told Harry he had accused members of his family of 'racism'. Harry responded by saying 'no I didn't', adding 'the British press said that'.

Prince Harry has become the first royal to publicly criticise Prince Andrew, labelling the Jeffrey Epstein affair ‘a shameful scandal’.

No one in ‘The Firm’ had spoken about allegations that the Duke of York twice sexually assaulted Virginia Giuffre, who claimed she was trafficked by the late disgraced financier Epstein.

Andrew settled her lawsuit last year, accepting no liability, and has always denied any wrongdoing. But Prince Harry brings up the affair in his book Spare.

When his wife Meghan asks if the Royal Family might cut their security after they quit Britain for North America, he says there is ‘no way’, considering his uncle still gets protection.

Despite having left the royal family and releasing a Netflix documentary that furthered the rift between them - Prince Harry says he is in a 'better place'.

He said: "I’m very, very happy, I’m very at peace.

'I am in a better place than I’ve ever been, and I think that probably angers some people, infuriates others.'

Prince Harry said that the Netflix documentary, which shared his and Meghan's story, and Spare, which shares his story, was a  'painful process' but 'cathartic at times'.

He agreed they were projects that looked backwards, but denied being stuck in the past and said that he can focus on looking forward.

The prince added that he has 'made peace with what has happened', but still waiting for accountability from some people.

Prince Harry claimed that he did not accuse his family of being racist in the Oprah Winfrey interview.

Tom Bradby asked: 'You talk about accountability, in the Oprah interview you accused members of your family of racism.'

The Prince said: 'No I didn't.

'Did Meghan ever mention that they're racist?'

Tom said: 'She said there were troubling comments about Archie’s skin colour.'

Harry replied: 'There was concern about his skin colour.'

Prince Harry called Jeremy Clarkson’s comments about Meghan 'hurtful and cruel', during his interview with ITV’s Tom Bradby.

He said: 'What [Clarkson] said was horrific, and is hurtful and cruel towards my wife.

'But it also encourages other people around the UK and around the world, men particularly, to go and think that it’s acceptable to treat women that way.'

After the release of their Netflix docuseries, Clarkson, wrote that he loathes Meghan Markle 'on a cellular level' and wants people to 'throw lumps of excrement' at her, in an op-ed for The Sun.

Prince Harry suggested his family has avoided accountability 'on a lot of things' during his 90-minute sit-down interview with ITV's Tom Bradby on Sunday night.

The broadcast, which began at 9pm, focuses on Harry's tumultuous relationship with his family who - in Bradby's words - the Duke of Sussex took 'a flame thrower to' in the writing of his memoirs.

It is the first primetime interview since his explosive autobiography Spare, which is out next week, was accidentally released early in Spain before the weekend.

Published extracts include an alleged physical altercation between William and Harry and details of the feud between Meghan and Kate.

Prince Harry and ITV's Tom Bradby debated the topic of the British press and how the royal family deals with the industry.

Prince Harry says he wants to change how the media functions which he believes is the 'epicenter' for 'so many problems' in the UK.

He says he is fine with the press coverage but draws the line when the 'incite hatred' towards his family.

While Bradby argued that it may be better for him to simply ignore the press

Prince Harry added that his father told him 'it was probably as suicide mission' trying to change the British press.

Prince Harry tonight dramatically accuses his family of 'getting into bed with the devil' to rehabilitate their image and insists they have 'shown no willingness to reconcile'.

In his first primetime television interview promoting his memoir, the Duke suggests other senior royals had sought to burnish their reputation 'to the detriment' of him and Meghan and says they were 'complicit' in their 'pain and suffering'.

He tells ITV's Tom Bradby he loves his father Charles and brother the Prince of Wales, but says: 'At the moment, I don't recognise them, as much as they probably don't recognise me.'

Harry also says Meghan and Kate 'never got on' and suggests his wife was the victim of 'stereotyping' from members of his family due to her being an 'American, biracial actress'.

Prince Harry saw the Princess of Wales as the sister he 'never had' - but has accused his family of 'stereotyping' his wife Meghan Markle.

The Duke of Sussex was speaking in tonight's interview with ITV's Tom Bradby.

Bradby said that Harry saw his brother's wife as 'the sister you never had', with the pair having known each other since soon after William and Kate started dating in 2003.

The pair are believed to have gotten on well, with Harry joining her and William on engagements before he met Meghan - although he told Bradby that whilst the events were 'fun', he sometimes felt 'slightly awkward' being the 'third wheel'.

Prince Harry said he is '100 per cent' sure that their can be a reconciliation between Harry and Meghan and the Royal family.

He said that the reconciliation could have a 'ripple through the world', but added that the royal family have shown no effort to reconcile.

He said: 'Well they’ve shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile up until this point.

'And I'm not sure how honesty is burning bridges.'

He argued that staying silent is not going to make things better.

Prince Harry is insistent that his family has been 'briefing the press for well over a decade', including stories about him and Meghan.

He apologised if 'owning his story' is upsetting for some people' and added that 'none of this is to intentionally harm anyone in my family'.

He said he has done everything he could to avoid the current situation.

Describing his relationship with his brother Prince William, he said: 'This whole thing is not just unnecessary it's sad'.

He claims his brother 'lunged' at him and 'grabbed his shirt twice' in front of their father during a row over his interview with Oprah Winfrey.

William said 'On our mother's life' a secret code phrase used by the brothers and told him: 'I love you' and 'I just want you to be happy'.

Prince Harry said: 'For nearly 25 years we’d reserved that soul crushing vow for times when one of us needed to be heard, to be believed quickly, for times when nothing else would do.'

The Duke of Sussex described a stand-up row that ended with the Prince of Wales grabbing him by the collar and throwing him to the floor, shattering a dog bowl with his back.

Prince Harry said: 'William and I used to fight all the time, the difference to that is that we were kids.

'What was different he was the level of frustration.'

He said he 'saw this red mist in him' and said without therapy he would have fought back.

Prince Harry said that he and Meghan were scrutinised by his Prince William and Kate.

Though he said that his brother 'Never tried to dissuade' him from marrying Meghan but said that he had 'some concerns' from early on and told him that 'this was going to be very hard'

Harry speculated that he didn't really understand what William was saying, but speculated that he may have predicted the reaction of the press.

Upon telling William and Kate about Meghan he said there was 'a lot of stereotyping that was happening, that I was guilty of as well, at the beginning.'

Harry explained the stereotype as 'American actress', and went on to say: 'Some of the things that my brother and sister-in-law – some of the way that they were acting or behaving definitely felt to me as though unfortunately that stereotyping was causing a bit of a barrier to them really sort of, you know, introducing or welcoming her in.'

Rows with Prince William dogged the weeks leading up to Harry's wedding, the Duke of Sussex claims in his memoir.

They even clashed over whether he could keep his beard.

Discussions about the venue and the date also became causes of concern at the Palace.

He explained to the Queen his beard felt like 'the new Harry' and a 'shield to his anxiety', but that William 'found it hard' that other people told him to shave his beard off.

The ITV interview continues with Prince Harry talking about his relationship with his brother Prince William.

Prince Harry said he was hurt when his older brother didn't want to be close to him when he joined Eton.

Now as a parent of two children of a similar age gap, he says he understands that the younger sibling can be annoying to the older.

But that at the time he didn't understand he wanted space.

Prince Harry said during his ITV interview that he will 'always love his father' despite the ongoing rift.

Prince Harry said: 'I love my father. I love my brother. I love my family. I always do.

'Nothing of what I've done in this book or otherwise has ever been to harm them or hurt them.'

He added that his father was 'never made for single-parenthood'.

An extract from Spare reads: 'He’d always given an air of not being quite ready for parenthood: the responsibilities, the patience, the time,' he said.

'Even he, though a proud man, would have admitted as much. But single-parenthood? Pa was never made for that. To be fair, he tried.'

Reading an extract from his book, Prince Harry said: '“We support you,” we said, “We endorse Camilla,” we said. “Just please don’t marry her, just be together, Pa.”

'He didn’t answer. But she answered. Straight away. Shortly after our private summits with her, she began to play the long game.

'A campaign aimed marriage, and eventually the Crown, with Pa’s blessing we presumed.'

He added how accurate details from private conversations soon ended up in the press. 

Tom Bradby didn't shy away from asking Harry about his drug use during his teenage years.

The ITV journalist asked Prince Harry about his cocaine use, 'Do you accept that is a matter of public interest for the press?'

Harry responded by saying the lines of what is in the public interest have 'been blurred'.

In his new autobiography 'Spare', Harry revealed that he first took cocaine on a shooting weekend at age 17. He did a 'few more lines' on other occasions.

The one hard-partier also admitted to hallucinating during a celebrity-filled event in California and smoking cannabis after his first date with Meghan.

The brothers famously had to walk together behind Diana's coffin as it made its way to Westminster Abbey on the day of her funeral in 1997.

Speaking in tonight's interview with ITV journalist Tom Bradby, the Duke of Sussex said that after the 'decision was made' for the pair to walk along the route: 'There's absolutely no way that I would let him do that by himself.'

He added: 'And there's absolutely no way that he would let me do that by myself. It was, if it was role reversal.'

The ITV interview with Bradby is part of a publicity blitz for his bombshell memoir Spare, which is being released on Tuesday but was leaked at the end of last week.

Harry also spoke movingly of his memories of the sound of the horses' 'bridles chinking' as the procession made its way down The Mall, along with the sounds of 'gravel underneath the foot and the wails from the crowd.'

Prince Harry describes how he saw pictures of his mother's car crash and how the images contained flashes from all the paparazzi.

He described how 'it still hurts' when he thinks about the photographers that had chased her didn't help and instead but carried on taking photos.

As an adult Prince Harry asked to be driven through the same tunnel in Paris at the same speed of his mother's crash.

Unbeknownst to him, Prince William had separately done the same, he said.

Prince Harry was 'very guarded' and turned his ITV sit down into a 'political interview' because he was 'squirming to avoid playing ball' when asked about William, a body language expert has said.

The Duke of Sussex, 38, has sat down with ITV's Tom Bradby as part of a publicity blitz for his new bombshell memoir Spare.

In the book, Harry claims his brother William invoked their mother's memory during an argument over his interview with Oprah.

The duke wrote that William got heated as they spoke after the funeral of their grandfather Prince Philip in 2021.

Prince Harry's interview begins by recounting when his father Prince Charles first told him that his mother Princess Dianna had been in a car crash.

An extract of his audiobook Spare played out as Prince Harry details how his father sat him down and explain his mother had been involved in an accident.

He continued to say he cried once at the burial and how he bottled up a lot of emotion after the tragedy.

Prince Harry has begun to unleash another salvo of attacks on the Royal Family as he sits down with his friend Tom Bradby for his first primetime interview to promote his explosive memoir.

Clips previously released by ITV of Harry: The Interview, show him describing feelings of guilt and revealing he had cried only once after the death of his mother Diana, Princess of Wales.

In a previously released trailer for the interview, Harry says he is publishing his memoirs because he does not know 'how staying silent is ever going to make things better'.

In another clip, he says he wants to reconcile with his family - but that it cannot happen without 'some accountability'.

Prince Harry's much-awaited interview with journalist Tom Bradby on ITV has started.

The interview is the Duke of Sussex's first ahead of the release of his controversial memoir Spare on January 10.

The Invictus Games could be under threat of terror attacks following Prince Harry's boasts that he killed 25 Taliban fighters, military veterans have warned.

Admiral Lord West, former head of the Navy, told the Sunday Mirror: 'The Invictus Games is very much labelled to him and so I would have thought the threat level there will definitely be higher.

'There will be serious security issues because of what he said. The Taliban will be reading it thinking there's this prince calling us all chess pieces and is quite happy about killing us.

'And there will be a lot of people, I am sure, in Islamic State and other terrorist organisations, who will think this is something which should be avenged.'

A leading royal expert has questioned why Prince Harry was so opposed to his father King Charles' marriage to Camilla Parker-Bowles .

Award-winning journalist and author Robert Jobson says the Duke of Sussex 's description of Camilla as a 'wicked stepmother' seems 'weird' considering he was a grown man at the time, not a child.

Jobson told Australian breakfast show Sunrise that Harry's feelings in the lead-up to the April 2005 ceremony weren't befitting of a man of 'nearly 21'.

Harry was 20 years old when Charles wed Camilla in a civil ceremony at Windsor Guildhall in Berkshire, England. His first marriage, to the late Princess Diana, took place in July 1981 and ended in divorce in 1996.

Prince Harry's first interview about his controversial memoir Spare is set to air in 15 minutes, ahead of the book’s launch.

Clips previously released by ITV of 'Harry: The Interview', show him describing feelings of guilt and telling broadcaster Tom Bradby he had cried only once after the death of his mother Diana, Princess of Wales.

In a previously released trailer for the interview, Harry says he is publishing his memoirs because he does not know 'how staying silent is ever going to make things better'.

In another clip, he says he wants to reconcile with his family – but that it cannot happen without 'some accountability'.

The Duke of Sussex has described the guilt he felt while walking outside Kensington Palace following his mother's death.

The Duke said he and William were unable to show any emotion as they met the mourners.

'Everyone thought and felt like they knew our mum, and the two closest people to her, the two most loved people by her, were unable to show any emotion in that moment,' he tells presenter Tom Bradby.

He continues: 'Everyone knows where they were and what they were doing the night my mother died.'

Harry also says that he cried once in the wake of his mother's death - at her burial.

Discussions about the venue and the date also became causes of concern at the Palace.

Harry suggests he and Meghan had even wanted to elope for a 'barefoot Botswana' ceremony, adding: 'We wanted to get married quickly. But the Palace couldn't seem to pick a date. Or a venue.'

After returning from an 'engagement tour', for which Meghan and Harry travelled to the four home nations, he says he discussed plans with his brother William.

Harry told William that he and Meghan were thinking of one of the grander venues in London.

Describing the exchange, he writes: 'I told him we were thinking of Westminster Abbey.'

King Charles told Prince Harry his wife was not welcome at Balmoral on the day the Queen died, according to the latest bombshell claim from the Duke of Sussex' memoirs.

In his explosive new biography Spare, Harry wrote that his father instructed him not to bring his wife Meghan to visit the dying Queen Elizabeth II, citing 'nonsensical and disrespectful' reasons.

Enraged by Charles' perceived snub, Harry retorted: 'Don't ever speak about my wife that way!', prompting the now-King to offer an apology.

Harry, 38, and Meghan, 41, were in London for to attend the WellChild Awards ceremony when the Queen's health deteriorated at her home in Scotland.

The usual practice within the Royal Family is to send back unsolicited gifts which have been sent to the palace for free.

Yet in his book, Harry admits that Meghan took free gifts, but also ­distributed them to her staff.

Harry says: 'She shared all the freebies she received, clothes and perfumes and make-up, with all the women in the office.'

If a member of the Royal Family is seen wearing an item of clothing, it can be worth thousands of pounds in advertising, marketing executives say.

Prince Harry has been written out of King Charles' Coronation script, it was claimed today, as royal insiders said Prince William is 'burning with anger' amid the bombshell revelations in the Duke of Sussex's memoirs.

In his new tell-all autobiography Spare, Harry made a series of sensational claims about his brother and father, describing the Prince of Wales as his 'arch-nemisis' and accusing the King of being worried he would be 'overshadowed' by Meghan's Hollywood star power.

The Royal Family has thus far remained silent on the matter, refusing to respond to the Duke's incendiary anecdotes, but the Sunday Times today said a royal source claimed Harry has been omitted from the proceedings of King Charles' upcoming Coronation in May.

News of Harry's removal from the ceremony comes as the Duke appeared on ITV this evening to speak about the guilt he felt following the death of his mother, the Princess of Wales, in 1997.

Prince Harry could be barred from the US and has put visa 'at risk' after admitting about his illicit drug usage, immigration experts have warned.

The Duke of Sussex, 38, confessed to doing cocaine, smoking cannabis and taking hallucinogenic mushrooms in his upcoming memoir.

Typical applicants would be denied a visa over their history with illegal substances, but US authorities note entry into the country is granted on a 'case-by-case' basis.

It is unclear if Harry, who moved to California with his wife Meghan Markle in 2020, detailed his drug use on his visa application. Immigration experts warn that if he 'lied' about his past, the Duke could have his visa revoked.

A reality star and ex-lover of Prince Harry says he was a 'good kisser and 'clearly not a virgin' when she met him in the wake of the Duke's revelation in memoir Spare that he lost his virginity to a mystery woman in a field behind a pub.

In the book, which was released early in Spain earlier this week, Prince Harry reveals how he lost his virginity in 2001 aged 17 to an older woman who 'liked macho horses' in a 'field behind a very busy pub' - believed to have been the Rattlebone Inn in Wiltshire.

'I mounted her quickly, after which she spanked my ass and sent me away,' he said, instantly fuelling fevered speculation as to who the mystery woman could be.

Now Catherine Ommanney, 51, an interior designer who praises the prince as a 'good kisser', has spoken out about her own experience with Prince Harry in a twist which could rule her out from being the mystery woman.

The King was today pictured attending a Sunday morning service at Sandringham following days of revelations in his son's autobiography Spare.

His Majesty was spotted smiling and appearing to share a joke with a well-wisher after a tumultuous few days which have tested the Royal family.

Wearing a brown overcoat, the King looked relaxed as he was escorted to the service at his Royal estate in Norfolk.

Prince Harry has been written out of his father's Coronation script, it was claimed yesterday, as royal insiders said Prince William is 'burning with anger' amid the bombshell revelations in the Duke of Sussex's memoirs.

Some independent bookstores have revealed they don't plan on selling the Duke of Sussex's explosive memoirs.

While the book will surely provoke a lot of interest when it is released on Tuesday, some shop owners have made the decision not to stock Prince Harry's Spare, saying its £28 hardback price is the reason they won't have it on their shelves.

Other said that there is no point stocking the book at full price in their shop when online giants like Amazon have had it on pre-order at half price for months.

Speaking to The Sunday Telegraph, Vivian Archer, who runs Newham Bookshop, in east London, said she doesn't believe her clientele will want to buy the books any way.

BACKGROUND & EDUCATION 

Bradby was born in Malta where his father served in the Royal Navy.

After a short time on the island his family moved back to Britain, and he was privately educated at £20,000-a-year Westbourne House School near Chichester before attending Sherborne School in Dorset. 

In a 2017 interview with the Daily Mail's Weekend Magazine, Bradby paid tribute to his family including his mother, Sally, who was a tennis coach. 

'My father Dan was in the Navy and was an honourable man who strove to do the right thing,' he said. 

'My mum, Sally, was a selfless force of nature. She died of cancer in 2012 aged 72 and my father was 83 when he died from a heart attack last year.'     

CAREER 

As host of ITV's News at 10, Bradby is one of the UK's most recognisable journalists. He joined ITN as an editorial trainee in 1980 and has served in a series of roles, including Ireland correspondent and Asia correspondent. 

As royal correspondent, he presented coverage of the Golden Jubilee and the funerals of Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother. 

He has hosted the News at 10 since 2015 and anchored major events including the Brexit referendum in 2016, the US election in 2020 and Queen Elizabeth's funeral earlier this year.

ROYAL LINKS

Bradby is a friend of the Sussexes and previously interviewed them for a documentary about their 2019 Africa tour.

He famously asked Meghan about her mental health, with the duchess thanking him and saying 'not many people have asked if I'm ok'.

The Duke of Cambridge was once so close with Tom Bradby that he was chosen to conduct the November 2010 engagement exclusive interview with him and Kate Middleton

In their recent Netflix series, Meghan said the interview marked a turning point. She said: 'There is only so much you can take on your own, so you end up saying, ''Something has to change''. It was a huge turning point.

'It was when we started having harder conversations about what needs to happen for us to be able to continue to make this work.'

Bradby first got to know Harry when he worked with him on a documentary about Lesotho when the prince was on his gap year after leaving Eton.

The journalist went on to attend his 2018 wedding to Meghan. He also went to William and Kate's wedding, but has since admitted his relationship with the Prince of Wales has suffered amid the fallout from Megxit.

Bradby has said mental breakdown made him treat Meghan and Harry more sympathetically.

'Feminist' Prince Harry was previously 'disrespectful' towards women, a source close to the Duke has said, recounting a Swiss skiing trip with the royal in which Harry spent a night with a British woman eight years younger than him.

The former friend of Prince Harry - who now describes himself as a feminist since his marriage to Meghan - said he made lewd comments about younger women and allegedly asked a 19-year-old sign a non-disclosure agreement during a wild holiday, the Sun reports.

While on the 2011 Verbier trip with upper-echelon friends including Guy Pally and Tom Inskip, he visited to a branch of Pelly's nightclub Public in the Swiss Alps.

The source claimed Harry, then 27, made a dirty joke about a shot glass in relation to a young 19-year-old while at the venue, which featured glasses and drinks balanced on skis.

It is not the first time the prince has been linked to young women on skiing trips in the Alps, with previous photos from 2005 showing him in a dressing gown on a hotel balcony with an unidentified woman.

Prince William's friends have referred to the future king as a 'sitting duck', saying Prince Harry knows his brother knows won't respond to the bombshell accusations made in Spare.

Despite Prince Harry's explosive Oprah Winfrey interview with Meghan, the Netflix documentary and now inflamed memoir Spare, Prince William's friends, according to The Sunday Times, say he will continue to keep his silence.

So far, William has not responded to the accusations because, as a friend of William explained, revenge is not he rolls as he is 'dignified and unbelievably loyal.'

The friend, in question, told The Sunday Times: 'It's cruel, cowardly and so sad for William to keep taking the punches. He's keeping quiet for the good of his family and the country.'

The Duchess of Sussex has been warned that Americans may turn against her and she could be faced with a huge backlash, following the release of her husband's memoir Spare.

Meghan Markle, 40, has been told that the US are tired of her 'endless whining and complaints,' after her recent claims against the Royal Family.

Last month Meghan and her husband Prince Harry, 38, released a six-part docu-series on Netflix, in which they revealed their feelings of ill-treatment from the British press and their escape from UK life to the US.

They say that they retreated to America for 'freedom,' and throughout the episodes portrayed a much happier life at their home in Montecito, California.

Prince William believed that his brother Harry was being 'brainwashed' by the therapist he was seeing, the younger Royal has claimed in his explosive memoirs.

The Duke of Sussex says his sibling was so worried about what he was being exposed to at his confidential sessions that he even asked to come along to one.

Harry also accuses William of believing 'I was unwell, which meant I was unwise' as he made plans to leave Royal duties for a new life abroad.

The Duke also says he tried to patch up their relationship with a joint therapy session, telling William it would 'be good for you. Good for us'.

But William did not take up the offer.

Human hand grenade' Prince Harry was today accused of trying to blow up his father's reign with his book as he ramped up his verbal attacks on his brother.

The Duke of Sussex described William's 'red mist' in a fight over Meghan Markle before admitting that he took cannabis, magic mushrooms and cocaine in another clip from his ITV interview, out on Sunday.

Harry also insisted to presenter Tom Bradby that he wants reconciliation with his relatives, even though his memoir has damaged the King and plunged the Royal Family into its worst crisis since the death of his mother in 1997.

And in a separate teaser released by Good Morning America last night, he admitted the rift with William would make their late mother 'sad'.

Former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown, a biographer of Princess Diana, said today: 'Harry's turned into a human hand grenade It's raining down on the House of Windsor just at the start of his father's reign'.

Caroline Flack's former manager has called Prince Harry 'gross' for writing about his romance with the late television star in his memoirs.

Alex Mullen, creative director at APM Media, which used to represent Caroline before her death by suicide in February 2020, wrote a lengthy post on his Instagram account criticising the royal for recounting details of the 'tainted' affair in Spare, which is officially published on Tuesday in the UK.

He wrote: 'Gross for Prince Harry to reveal such private details about Caroline Flack. The way the press spoke about her at that time and the reason they split are both very sad and it’s gross he’s using her name to help sell his book.'

An incandescent Mullen added: 'The Royal Family need to strip him of all titles NOW.'

Caroline and Prince Harry had dated briefly in 2009 and Harry recounts in his forthcoming memoir Spare how he enjoyed a string of dates with the high profile television star.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made a 25-page report to refute claims she had bullied members of staff in the royal household.

The Sussexes forcefully hit back at accusations that Meghan had driven two assistants out of their jobs with her behaviour, with staff accusing the Duchess of screaming at them and contacting them on their evenings off.

The allegations, which were initially reported to human resources by Prince Harry and Prince Williams' joint press secretary, sparked a review by Buckingham Palace.

Now Harry has used his new memoir, Spare, to rail against the claims, calling them a 'lie' and saying that he and Meghan provided a report 'full of evidence' to prove this.

Prince Harry has revealed he only cried once over the death of his mother, Princess Diana.

The Duke of Sussex said he felt like he was 'unable to show any emotion' in public after her death in 1997, and that he had only shed tears when she was buried.

The 38-year-old told ITV's Tom Bradby he felt 'some guilt' as he greeted crowds who gathered to pay their respects to his mother outside Kensington Palace.

He made the claim as part of an interview with Mr Bradby during the publicity blitz for his bombshell memoir, Spare, which was leaked before the weekend.

In a clip for the interview, which will air on ITV1 at 9pm tonight, the Prince said: 'I cried once, at the burial, and you know I go into detail [in Spare] about how strange it was and how actually there was some guilt that I felt, and I think William felt as well, by walking around the outside of Kensington Palace.'

Good evening and welcome today's blog covering Prince Harry's ITV interview with journalist Tom Bradby.

The hour-long show airs at 9pm and will be promoting the Duke's bombshell new book, Spare, which is officially released on January 10.

However the explosive tell-all autobiography has already had a rocky start, being accidentally released in Spain days early.

Here's what's happened so far: