Prince Harry made a ‘declaration of war’ against the royal family in his latest round of bombshell TV attacks, international media has declared.
The Duke of Sussex ‘shot the heart’ of the monarchy with the latest revelations in interviews with ITV’s Tom Bradby and CBS’s 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper.
In scathing criticisms of his family, Harry branded his stepmother Camilla ‘the villain’ and ‘dangerous’, ignoring King Charles’s pleas not to attack his wife.
Spanish news outlet ABC condemned the comments, saying today: ‘Prince Harry shoots the heart of the British Royal Family.’
They added that the media blitz by the ‘wayward son’ is causing a ‘nightmare’ for the new monarchy with his ‘explosive’ statements.
The Süddeutsche Zeitung, one of the largest daily newspapers in Germany, led today with the headline: ‘Declaration of war against the royal house.’
Fellow German outlet Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said today: ‘It’s good that the Queen no longer has to experience this.’
The withering critique said Harry has ‘ruined the family life of the royals’, adding: ‘The prince and his wife present themselves as well-meaning do-gooders who were accused of being eaten by the Windsors of the gossip press.
‘However, they themselves show no respect for the life, dignity or privacy of others.’
Spanish outlet El Pais declared last night: ‘Harry has decided to present himself to the world as a man who has achieved peace with himself – thanks to years of therapy – and happiness with his wife, Meghan Markle, and their two children, Archie, three years old, and Lilibet, from a year and a half.
‘At no time does it cross his mind that, in doing so, he is airing the intimacies of close relatives or directly attacking them or the monarchical institution.’
The Duke of Sussex ‘shot the heart’ of the monarchy with the latest revelations in interviews with ITV’s Tom Bradby and CBS’s 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper
Prince Harry’s eagerly awaited memoir, Spare, goes on sale worldwide tomorrow, promising scandalous revelations about his own and his family’s personal lives.
French publication Le Figaro branded the royal ‘Dirty Harry, dirtier than ever’ amid the series of interviews, Netflix series and lucrative book deals as he continues to sell his story and speak his ‘truth’.
On a night of TV drama on both sides of the Atlantic:
- Harry launched another extraordinary attack on the Royal family, branding them ‘abusers’ in TV interview that is likened to taking a ‘flamethrower to them’;
- Duke reveals he is ‘not texting’ William, hasn’t spoken with his father King Charles ‘for quite a while’;
- Harry brazenly insists he ‘NEVER intended to hurt his family’ – despite launching dozens of brutal attacks on royals in explosive memoir and on TV;
- Prince Harry denies the Royal family are racist but again repeats relative asked about son Archie’s skin colour – calling it ‘unconscious bias’ instead;
- But then Harry claimed that William and Kate ‘stereotyping’ Meghan as a ‘biracial American actress’ meant she was not welcomed as a Royal
- Royal family were ‘horrible’ to him on the day the Queen died, he claims;
In his interview with Anderson Cooper yesterday, Harry said regarding Camilla: ‘She was the villain, she was a third person in the marriage, she needed to rehabilitate her image.
‘That made her dangerous because of the connections that she was forging within the British press. And there was open willingness on both sides to trade information and with a family built on hierarchy, and with her on the way to being Queen Consort, there was going to be people or bodies left in the street because of that.’
The Duke claimed that Camilla forged ‘connections’ with the press in the UK in order to try and ‘rehabilitate her image’ and get ‘positive stories’ written about her
Prince Harry has taken aim at his father’s wife Camilla in a new TV interview to promote his explosive memoir Spare, with CBS’ 60 Minutes in the US
But hours earlier, in an interview that viewers said contained several contradictions, he told ITV’s Tom Bradby that he was not ‘scathing’ towards Camilla in his book. Harry’s contradictions included his denying previous allegations that the Royal Family is racist.
There was also disbelief when Harry told Mr Bradby that whatever he says to William in future will remain ‘private’, despite using his memoirs, TV interviews, a Netflix documentary as well as an Oprah special to spill the beans on what his family said to him and Meghan behind closed doors. He also said he has no wish to hurt his family.
Mr Bradby was visibly stunned – as were millions of viewers – by his screeching U-turn from previous incendiary claims that an unnamed senior royal had raised concerns over the colour of his son Archie’s skin.
The broadcaster raised the 2021 Oprah interview with Meghan and said: ‘You accused members of your family of racism.’
But Harry snapped back: ‘No I didn’t. The British press said that’.
The CBS interview came hours after a longer sit-down in the UK with ITV, in which he told his friend Mr Bradby that his family was ‘complicit’ in the ‘pain and suffering’ inflicted on his wife Meghan and compared them to ‘abusers’.
He suggested they helped to ‘trash’ his and Meghan’s reputations, forcing them to move to California, and have ‘shown no willingness to reconcile’.
Harry also said that there was a ‘lot of stereotyping’ of Meghan after she was introduced to the Royal Family, because she is an ‘American actress, divorced, biracial’. But, in an interview of contradictions, he later insisted that the Royal Family is not racist – despite the allegation being at the very heart of the Sussexes’ Oprah interview in 2021.
The duke said the comments made about his son Archie’s skin colour were ‘unconscious bias’. Mr Bradby appeared taken aback by the answer – while experts said that Harry clearly didn’t understand the term he was now using.
Prince Harry pictured with his brother Prince William and father Prince Charles at the funeral of Princess Diana
Harry’s new book is out in the UK tomorrow, but was released early in Spain.
The duke writes in his memoir how he and William begged the King not to marry Camilla, and he told Anderson Cooper: ‘We didn’t think it was necessary. We thought it would do more harm than good.’
In his UK interview with ITV on Sunday night, the duke, however, denied that he had been ‘scathing’ about the Queen Consort in his autobiography.
Presenter Tom Bradby said: ‘I want to sort of just briefly talk about your stepmother and the press ’cause you, you are pretty consistently scathing and suggest that you are…’
Harry replies ‘Scathing?…What, scathing towards?’
Mr Bradby responds: ‘Well, as in you say that, ‘your interests were sacrificed on her PR altar’, to quote, and you seem to be specifically referencing that. Now her people might say, well, it’s not a crime to go to lunch with journalists.
Harry: ‘Well, I think in the book is very clear what happened.’
Daily Mail (UK)