Chosen by us to get you up to speed at a glance
Prince Harry has described Camilla, the Queen Consort, as a “villain” who was “dangerous” because she needed to rehabilitate her image in the media.
In a broadside against his stepmother, the Duke echoed his mother’s words by saying on US television: “She was the third person in their marriage."
Describing the circumstances around the Queen consort’s relationship with her father, the Duke said: “She was the villain. 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. With a family built on hierarchy, and with her, on the way to being Queen consort, there were going to be people or bodies left in the street because of that.”
Airing just hours after his chat with ITV’s Tom Bradby, the Duke of Sussex told CBS’s ‘60 Minutes’: “If you are led to believe, as a member of the family, that being on the front page, having positive headlines, positive stories written about you, is going to improve your reputation or increase the chances of you being accepted as monarch by the British public, then that’s what you’re going to do.”
Elsewhere, he denied being “cutting” about Prince William, and says he wants to “squash this idea that somehow my wife was the one that destroyed the relationship between these two brothers.”
He also spent a long time talking about his mother’s death and the aftermath, saying that for years he believed she was really still alive. He also revealed that he has not spoken to his father or brother for quite some time.
Read our live coverage below as it happened.
Prince Harry’s first two interviews promoting his book Spare have concluded and we learnt the following:
Thanks for following our live coverage today.
While the Duke’s book, Spare, is officially released on Tuesday, there will be more television interviews and extra snippets from this one as America wakes up tomorrow.
Prince Harry is revealing life inside the royal family like never before.
We’ll have more from his @60minutes interview, tomorrow on #CBSMornings. pic.twitter.com/wohpz8AI4p
"It’s hard, I think, for anybody to imagine a family dynamic that is so Game of Thrones without dragons," says Cooper, referencing the popular series.
"I don’t watch Game of Thrones," says the Duke, slightly awkwardly, but adds: "but there’s definitely dragons. And that’s again the third party which is the British Press.
"Ultimately without the British press as part of this, we would probably still be a fairly dysfunctional family, like, a lot are. But at the heart of it, there is a family, without question, and I really look forward to having that family element back. I look forward to having a relationship with my brother. I look forward to having a relationship with my father and other members of my family.
"You want that?" says Cooper, with one eyebrow raised.
"That’s all I’ve ever asked for," says the Duke.
And with that, the interview is over.
"In the book, you called this, "A– full-scale rupture." Can it be healed?" asks Cooper.
"Yes. The ball is very much in their court, but, you know, Meghan and I have continued to say that we will openly apologise 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."
"I assume they would say, "Well, how can we trust you how do we know that you’re not gonna reveal whatever conversations we have in an interview somewhere?" says Cooper, who like Bradby, has been excellent in this interview.
"This all started with them briefing, daily, against my wife with lies to the point of where my wife and I had to run away from my country," says a defensive Duke.
In one of the most revealing parts of the interview, Prince Harry says he is not talking with his brother and father.
"Do you speak to William now? Do you text?" asks Cooper.
A nervous-looking Duke replies: "Uh, currently, no. But I look forward to us being able to find peace."
"How long has it been since you spoke?" Cooper presses.
"Um, a while," is the response.
"Do you speak to your dad?" Cooper continues.
"We aren’t– we haven’t spoken for quite a while. Um, no, not recently," says the Duke.
"Can you see a day when you would return as a full-time member of the royal family?" Cooper asks, rather optimistically.
"No. I can’t see that happening," is the blunt response.
“I look forward to having a relationship with my brother. I look forward to having a relationship with my father and other members of my family.”
Prince Harry says he hasn’t spoken with his brother or father in “quite a while.” https://t.co/OSaUYOja2F pic.twitter.com/RVyVrl978M
"You write in the book about psychedelics, Ayahuasca, psilocybin, mushrooms," says Cooper.
"I would never recommend people to do this recreationally," says the Duke.
"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.
"What did they show you?" asks Cooper.
"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."
Speaking about his grandmother’s death, the Duke said: "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, you know, all of the family members that live within the Windsor and Ascot area were jumping on a plane together, a plane with 12, 14, maybe 16 seats."
"You were not invited on that plane?" asks Cooper.
"I was not invited," the Duke replied.
Prince Harry was in London when he learned the Queen was under medical supervision. He says his family got on a plane without him. By the time Harry reached Balmoral Castle on his own, the Queen had died. https://t.co/0IpSq6nOZj pic.twitter.com/HvBYG8bWoR
Prince Harry made his way separately, and on his own, arriving hours after everyone else.
"I walked into the hall, and my aunt was there to greet me. And she asked me if I wanted to see her. I thought about it for about five seconds, thinking, "Is this a good idea?" And I was, like, "You know what? You can do this. You need to say goodbye." Um, so I went upstairs, took my jacket off and walked in and just spent some time with her alone.
"Where was she?" asked Cooper.
"She was in her bedroom. I was actually really happy for her. Because she’d finished life. She’d completed life, and her husband was waiting for her. And the two of them are buried together."
Anderson Cooper quotes a Jeremy Clarkson column in the Sun which said of Meghan Markle: "I hate her. At night, I’m unable to sleep as I lie there, grinding my teeth and dreaming of the day where she is made to walk naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chant, ‘Shame,’ and throw lumps of excrement at her."
"Did that surprise you?" Cooper asks the Duke.
"Did it surprise me? No. Is it shocking? Yes. I mean, thank you for proving our point," he replies.
"Has there been any response from the palace?" asks Cooper.
"No. And there comes a point when silence is betrayal," says the Duke.
On the Royal family, he says: "Trying to speak a language that perhaps they understand, I will sit here and speak truth to you with the words that come out of my mouth, rather than using someone else, an unnamed source, to feed in lies or a narrative to a tabloid media that literally radicalises its readers to then potentially cause harm to my family, my wife, my kids."
Anderson Cooper has been very polite, but has not been afraid to ask some difficult questions.
"Why not renounce your titles as duke and duchess?" he says, but Harry fires back straight away: "And what difference would that make?"
Cooper responds: "One of the criticisms that you’ve received is that okay, fine, you wanna move to California, you wanna step back from the institutional role. Why be so public? Why reveal conversations you’ve had with your father, or with your brother? You say you tried to do this privately."
"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," says Harry.
"You know, the family motto is never complain, never explain. But it’s just a motto. And it doesn’t really hold."
"It was a build up of frustration, I think, on his part," says the Duke.
"It was at a time where he was being told certain things by people within his office. And at the same time, he was consuming a lot of the tabloid press, a lot of the stories. He had a few issues, which were based not on reality.
"I was defending my wife and he was coming for my wife – she wasn’t there at the time – but through the things that he was saying. I was defending myself. And we moved from one room into the kitchen. And his frustrations were growing, and growing, and growing. He was shouting at me. I was shouting back at him. It wasn’t nice. It wasn’t pleasant at all. And he snapped. And he pushed me to the floor.
"He knocked me over. I landed on the dog bowl.
"I cut my back. I didn’t know about it at the time. But he apologised afterwards. It was a pretty nasty experience."
Cooper asks if William told Harry not to tell anyone about the altercation.
"Yeah, and I wouldn’t have done. And, I didn’t until she (Meghan) saw 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 hadn’t seen it."
In forthright language, the Duke echoes his mother’s words by saying of Camilla, the Queen Consort: “She was the third person in their marriage."
“She was the villain. 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. With a family built on hierarchy, and with her, on the way to being Queen consort, there were going to be people or bodies left in the street because of that.
“If you are led to believe, as a member of the family, that being on the front page, having positive headlines, positive stories written about you, is going to improve your reputation or increase the chances of you being accepted as monarch by the British public, then that’s what you’re going to do.”
"My military career saved me in many regards," said the Duke.
"It got me out of the spotlight from the UK press. I was able to focus on a purpose larger than myself, to be wearing the same uniform as everybody else, to feel normal for the first time in my life. And accomplish some of the biggest challenges that I ever had. You know, I was training to become an Apache helicopter pilot. You don’t get a pass for being a prince."
"The Apache doesn’t give a c*** about who you are," jokes Cooper.
"No, there’s no prince autopilot button you can press and it takes you away," the Duke replies, laughing.
"I was a really good candidate for the military. I was a young man in my 20s suffering from shock. But I was now in the front seat of an Apache shooting it, flying it, monitoring four radios simultaneously and being there to save and help anybody that was on the ground with a radio screaming, "We need support, we need air support."
"That was my calling. I felt healing from that weirdly.
"It felt like I was turning pain into a purpose. I didn’t have the awareness at the time that I was living my life in adrenaline, and that was the case from age 12, from the moment that I was told that my mom had died."
Prince Harry said that he went through files on his mother’s death to look for "proof".
"Proof that she was in the car. 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."
Cooper says: "You write in the book, "I hadn’t been aware before this moment," talking about looking at the pictures of the crash scene, "that the last thing Mummy saw on this earth was a flash bulb."
"The pictures showed the reflection of a group of photographs taking photographs through the window, and the reflection on the window was them," said the Duke.
"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 kind of stuff that sticks in your mind forever."
"For a long time, I just refused to accept that she was gone. Part of, you know, she would never do this to us, but also part of, maybe this is all part of a plan.
Cooper replied: "You really believed that maybe she had just decided to disappear for a time?"
"For a time, and then that she would call us and that we would go and join her, yeah," the Duke replied.
"How long did you believe that?" said Cooper.
"Years. Many, many years. And William and I talked about it as well. He had similar thoughts."
Cooper then said: "You write in the book, “I’d often say it to myself first thing in the morning, ‘Maybe this is the day. Maybe this is the day that she’s gonna reappear.’"
"Yeah, hope. I had huge amounts of hope," the Duke replied.
"You write about a contentious meeting you had with him in 2021," Cooper says of Prince William.
"You said, “I looked at Willy, really looked at him maybe for the first time since we were boys. I took it all in, his familiar scowl, which had always been his default in dealings with me, his alarming baldness, more advanced than my own, his famous resemblance to Mummy which was fading with time, with age.” That’s pretty cutting."
"I don’t see it as cutting at all," the Duke replied.
"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.
"None of anything that I’ve written, anything I’ve included is ever intended to hurt my family. 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."
"Think you know Prince Harry’s story? Think again" starts Anderson Cooper.
Already it promises to be a wide ranging interview, with a preview snippet showing the Duke saying: "The fact that she was American, an actress, divorced, Black, biracial with a Black mother."
Oddly, they’ve cut to a break before getting going.
Anderson Cooper is working with the same material as Tom Bradby, but may choose a different approach given their different audiences.
He may be more receptive to the Duke’s difficulties with the British press.
There is also likely to be conversation about Harry’s role in the war in Afghanistan, given that American forces were there too.
It also seems probable that there will be discussion about his new life in California.
America will now have its Sunday sit-down with Prince Harry, with CNN Anchor Anderson Cooper interviewing the Duke for television show 60 Minutes.
It’s expected to get going in around half an hour, once the New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles finish their NFL match. (There are currently seven minutes left in the fourth quarter.)
Cooper won an Emmy for his coverage of Princess Diana’s funeral and is probably the preeminent left-leaning American broadcast journalist. Among the American big beasts, he has a reputation for being a sensitive presenter, unafraid to build his own feelings into his reports, while his experience of grief and loss echoes Harry’s own.
Cooper’s father died in 1978 and his older brother, Carter, took his own life in 1988. Cooper has spoken extensively about loss and grief and in 2021 released All There Is, a podcast exploring the subject.
Read more about the American host here.
Tom Bradby has been praised by fellow broadcasters for his interview with Prince Harry.
Emily Maitlis, who conducted the remarkable interview with Prince Andrew in 2019, said Mr Bradby led the way, while radio host James O’Brien said all sides should feel as if it was fair.
Great interview by @TomBrady . This is fundamentally a tragic story of a kid who lost his mother in the most appalling circumstances – and never found the support to emerge from that darkness. #harry
Very impressed by Tom Bradby. If William is watching, I don't think he could find much fault with how this interview has been conducted. And similarly, I think Harry will feel he's been treated fairly but robustly. That's quite an achievement for an interviewer in this situation.
Prince Harry has been in therapy for years, and Harry: The Interview made one thing clear: it hasn’t solved his anger issues.
“I’m in such a good headspace now. The reality is, I’ve never been happier,” he said at the end, but the programme told a different story.
Furious, defensive and just plain sad, it was a difficult watch for those of us who had hoped that life in Montecito might bring Harry the peace he claims to crave.
Anita Singh’s verdict is here
Prince Harry also addressed comments recently made about his wife in The Sun by Jeremy Clarkson, the former Top Gear star.
The Duke of Sussex said it 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".
He added: "It’s no longer a case of me asking for accountability, but at this point the world is asking for accountability. And the world is asking for some form of comment from the monarchy.
"But the silence is deafening, to put it mildly. So, I think we’ve gone from this being like, you know, just my personal whatever you want to call it to way, way, way bigger than us."
On Megxit, the Duke of Sussex told Tom Bradby in the ITV interview that "the distorted narrative is that we wanted to leave to go and make money".
But he says:
We were dedicated to a life of service, as is proven by everything that we’re doing now with the work that we do. And the proposal was very much on the table, publicly, which is we can’t cope in this situation and we’re gonna put our mental health first, we’ve asked for help and support. At that time I didn’t fully understand how much – or how complicit the family were in that pain and suffering that was happening to my wife, and the one group of people that could’ve helped or stopped this from happening were the very people that were – that were encouraging it to happen.
And I sit here now in front of you asking for a family. Not an institution. I want a family. And I understand how that might be hard for them to be able to separate the two, but to me everything that I’ve witnessed and experienced over the years, there has to be a separation.
The front page of tomorrow's Daily Telegraph:
'William and Kate stereotyped Meghan, claims Prince Harry'#TomorrowsPapersToday
Sign up for the Front Page newsletterhttps://t.co/x8AV4Oomry pic.twitter.com/t36mOStW1m
The Duke of Sussex accused the Prince and Princess of Wales of “stereotyping” his wife, Meghan, as a “divorced biracial American actress”.
Prince Harry told ITV on Sunday night that his brother had voiced concerns about him marrying the Duchess, and claimed that Prince William and his wife had never got on with Meghan “from the get-go”.
The Duke was interviewed by ITV’s News at Ten anchor Tom Bradby to promote his memoir, Spare, which is officially published on Tuesday.
He said that the Waleses had never expected him to begin a relationship with “someone like Meghan who had a very successful career”.
“There was a lot of stereotyping that was happening, that I was guilty of as well, at the beginning,” he said.
Read more here
Questioned on whether he was “looking back too much” with his interview with Tom 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.
“They were necessary, they were essential for historical fact and significance.
“I don’t want my kids or other people of that age growing up thinking ‘Oh wow, this is what happens’, like no that’s not what happened. This is what happened.
“There are two sides to every story, so it’s been – it’s been a painful process – cathartic at times, but going back over old ground to be able to get these projects right has taken a lot of energy, and there’s a lot of relief now that both these projects have been complete.
“Now we can focus on looking forward and I’m excited about that. So no, I’m not stuck in the past and I will never be stuck in the past.”
Analysis by Victoria Ward, Royal Correspondent
Prince Harry’s claim that he and Meghan had never accused the Royal family of racism will be interpreted by many as a rowing back on claims made in their Oprah Winfrey interview.
Buckingham Palace was engulfed in a race crisis when Meghan told Ms Winfrey in March 2021 that when she was pregnant with her son, Archie, there were “concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he was born.”
Prince Harry said at the time that it was “awkward” and he was “a bit shocked."
Discussing the race row at Buckingham Palace between Lady Susan Hussey and Ngozi Fulani, the Duke of Sussex has said he and his wife "love" the late Queen’s former lady in waiting.
He told Tom Bradby on ITV: “All we’ve ever asked for in the last – certainly the last few years – is some accountability.
“And I’m very happy for Ngozi Fulani to be invited into the palace to sit down with Lady Susan Hussey and to reconcile, because Meghan and I love Susan Hussey. (Meghan) thinks she’s great.
“And I also know that what she meant – she never meant any harm at all.
“But the response from the British press, and from people online because of the stories that they wrote was horrendous.”
The Queen’s former lady in waiting quit an honorary role after asking Ms Fulani during an event at Buckingham Palace where she really came from.
Prince Harry has denied that he accused his family of racism in the bombshell Oprah Winfrey interview in 2021.
ITV interview Tom Bradby tells him: "In the Oprah interview you accused members of your family of racism …"
"No I didn’t," the Duke of Sussex responds. "The British press said that… did Meghan ever mention that they’re racist?"
When Mr Bradby attempts to explain that the Duchess of Sussex told Oprah there were comments made about Archie’s skin colour from within the family, Prince Harry says "there was" but that "I wouldn’t [describe that as racist], not having lived within that family".
Prince Harry adds: "The difference between racism and unconscious bias, the two things are different. But once it’s been acknowledged, or pointed out to you as an individual, or as an institution, that you have unconscious bias, you therefore have an opportunity to learn and grow from that in order so that you are part of the solution rather than part of the problem.
"Otherwise unconscious bias then moves into the category of racism."
The Duke goes on: "What happened to Ngozi Fulani is a very good example of the environment within the institution, and why after our Oprah interview, they said that they were gonna bring in a diversity tsar. That hasn’t happened. Everything they said was gonna happen hasn’t happened."
The Duke of Sussex has said he would have fought back when the Prince of Wales allegedly attacked him if he had not been having therapy.
Harry has claimed in his controversial memoir Spare that William ripped his necklace and knocked him to the floor in a furious confrontation over the Duchess of Sussex in 2019.
In an interview with ITV’s Tom Bradby on Sunday night, Harry described how he and William used to “fight all the time like a lot of siblings”.
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 per cent.”
In an excerpt read from his autobiography, the duke alleged that William urged him to fight back, saying: “Come on, hit me, you’ll feel better if you hit me… Come on, we always used to fight, you’ll feel better if you hit me’.”
Harry said he replied: “No, only you’ll feel better if I hit you. Please, just leave.”
Please tell me I misheard this:
“I hope what I say to my father and brother remains private,” #HarryTheInterview
As a man with a beard I relate to Harry not wanting to shave off his beard but not to the idea that having or not having a beard can become some kind of constitutional crisis.
I am sure someone will, very soon, count up all the times Harry mentions the words “British Press” as the cause of the problems.
(I am certain it will run into double figures …)#HarryTheInterview
The Duke of Sussex has claimed there was a “horrible reaction” from his family members when the Queen died.
He told Tom Bradby on ITV: “The day that she died was just a really, really horrible reaction from my family members.
“And then by all accounts, well certainly from what I saw and what other people probably experienced, was they were on the back foot and then the briefings and the leaking and the planting.
“I was like ‘we’re here to celebrate the life of granny and to mourn her loss, can we come together as a family?’ but I don’t know how we collectively – how we change that.”
The Duke of Sussex has claimed “planting and leaking” from other members of the royal family meant, in his mind, they had written “countless books” and “millions of words … dedicated to trying to trash my wife”.
Asked how his brother would react to his airing of private conversations in public, Harry told Tom Bradby on ITV: “He’d probably say all sorts of different things.
“But you know, for the last however many years, let’s just focus on the last six years, the level of planting and leaking from other members of the family means that in my mind they have written countless books – certainly millions of words have been dedicated to trying to trash my wife and myself to the point of where I had to leave my country.
“The distorted narrative is that we wanted to leave to go and make money.”
The Duke of Sussex said it was “heartbreaking” that he “simply didn’t believe” his brother when he said he wanted him to be happy and used the words “on mummy’s life” at the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral.
In his book Spare, Harry described the phrase as a “universal password” or a “secret code” between the pair, which he said they had used for 25 years “for when one of us needed to be heard”.
Harry told Tom Bradby on ITV: “It is heartbreaking. This whole thing is completely, not just unnecessary, it’s incredibly sad.
“But there’s a – there’s a way through it, there’s a way out of it. And that’s what I’m focused on now. But yes, it’s heartbreaking.”
The Duke of Sussex said he did not believe the King or the Prince of Wales would read his book and did not know if they would watch the interview with Tom Bradby on ITV.
He told the broadcaster: “I don’t think my father or brother will read the book. I really hope they do, but I don’t think they will.
“And with regard to this interview I don’t know whether they’ll be watching this or not, but what they have to say to me and what I have to say to them will be in private, and I hope it can stay that way.”
The Duke of Sussex asked ITV interviewer Tom Bradby whether Bradby would like to talk about losing his own virginity, in an awkward exchange that follows revelations Harry made in his memoir about his wilder teenage years.
Asking Harry about the new book Spare, Bradby said: “I won’t, uh, spoil it, ’cause there’s a lot, there’s an awful lot of, um, material in there. You know, there’s you losing your virginity. I think, you know…?”
Harry said: “Apparently.”
“Sensitive viewers turn away now. Um…,” Bradbury continued.
“It’s four lines or something,” said Harry.
“Right…,” Bradbury replied.
“If that,” Harry continued.
Bradby said: “OK. Oh, I’m just scrubbing it from my memory still. But it’s OK.”
And Harry asked: “We can talk about you losing your virginity, if you want?”
To which Bradby replied: “No, that’s, that’s, let’s not do that um, er, let’s not go there.”
Prince Harry has admitted taking class A drugs as a teenager at a country house but said it did not make him feel happy.
Speaking to ITV’s Tom Bradby about his new book Spare, the Duke said it was “important to acknowledge” his drug-taking, which included marijuana, magic mushrooms and cocaine.
The Duke of Sussex has described an alleged row over keeping his beard for his own wedding.
He claims he asked the late Queen for permission to keep his beard for his wedding, which she allowed, but his brother the Prince of Wales was unhappy.
Asked what the disagreement was actually about by Tom Bradby on ITV, Harry said: “I think a lot of it is to do with – I mean I refer to it as heir/spare but also older brother/younger brother – there’s a level of competition there.
“And again, writing this, I remembered that William had a beard himself and that granny and other people, the ones to tell – told him that he had to shave it off.
“The difference for me, if there was a difference, but the difference for me was, as I explained to my grandmother, that this beard – that I’m still wearing – felt to me at the time like the new Harry, right. As almost like a shield to my anxiety.
“I think William found it hard that other people told him to shave it off, and yet here I was on my wedding day wearing military uniform, no longer in the military, but believing as though I should shave it off before my wedding day.
“And I said ‘well I don’t believe that Meghan’s going to recognise me if she comes up the aisle and sees
The Duke of Sussex told Tom Bradby on ITV the idea of him and his wife being the “fab four” with the Prince and Princess of Wales was “something the British press created” and it “creates competition”.
He said: “The idea of the four of us being together was always a hope for me. Before it was Meghan, whoever it was going to be, I always hoped that the four of us would get on.
“But, very quickly it became Meghan versus Kate. And that, when it plays out so publicly, you can’t hide from that, right?
“Especially when within my family you have the newspapers laid out pretty much in every single palace and house that is around.”
The Duke of Sussex claimed his brother “raised some concerns” about his marriage to Meghan Markle.
Harry told Tom Bradby on ITV: “He never tried to dissuade me from marrying Meghan but he aired some concerns very early on and said ‘this is going to be really hard for you’, and I still to this day don’t truly understand which part of what he was talking about.
“Maybe he predicted what the British press’s reaction was going to be?”
Analysis by Victoria Ward, Royal Correspondent
Harry seems frustrated with Tom Bradby’s line of questioning and appears to bristle when pushed on his views about the media and his decision to reveal intimate family secrets.
Tom Bradby’s reaction to the Duke’s account of losing his virginity led to an awkward moment as the journalist said he wanted to "scrub it from his memory".
It will be interesting to see if their close friendship endures.
Tom Bradby describes how Harry also accuses Charles in his book of intimacy and communication problems, and not being there for him.
“Your other criticism is that too often your interests are sacrificed to his interests, certainly when it comes to the press,” Mr Bradby said.
Harry agreed and replied: “I have a lot of compassion and … even understanding as to why certain members of my family need to have that relationship with the tabloid press.
“I do, I understand it. I don’t agree with it, but I do understand it. And there have been decisions that have happened on the other side that have been incredibly hurtful.
“And they… and it continues. It hasn’t stopped. It’s continuing the whole, the whole way through.”
The Duke of Sussex has also questioned when Charles had the “patience” and “time” for parenthood.
“He’d always given an air of not being quite ready for parenthood: the responsibilities, the patience, the time. 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,” he wrote in Spare.
Speaking of his affection for Charles, he tells Bradby: “Of course, he’s my father. I will always love him.”
The Duke of Sussex has written of how his father the King blamed himself for his son’s struggles, telling him “I should have got you the help you needed years ago”.
He says his “Pa” was “never made” for single parenthood but had tried, and told Tom Bradby in an interview on ITV he will “always love” his father.
Narrating his autobiography Spare, the duke said: “Over dinner one night at Highgrove, Pa and I spoke at some length about what I’d been suffering.
“I gave him the particulars, told him story after story. Towards the end of the meal he looked down at his plate and said softly “I suppose it’s my fault. I should have got you the help you needed years ago”.
“I assured him that it wasn’t his fault, but I appreciated the apology.”
Gordon Rayner writes: One of the more puzzling aspects of Prince Harry’s book and interview is that he insists on pinning the blame for a leaked conversation with Prince William on his stepmother the Queen Consort, even though it is a matter of record that she was not the leaker.
The details of William’s first conversation with Camilla were actually leaked, inadvertently, by Camilla’s own private secretary, Amanda MacManus, who was eventually sacked over the incident.
Mrs MacManus told her husband, a media executive, who in turn was said to have told a former colleague, who told a newspaper.
Camilla put out a statement about the leak of the 1998 meeting at the time, and Mrs MacManus said she was “very sorry”, adding: “It is a matter of great regret to me that chance remarks of mine led to the disclosure in the press of the private meeting between Mrs Parker Bowles and Prince William."
Interviewer Tom Bradby puts it to Prince Harry that his account of his brother, the Prince of Wales, begins with deep love.
Prince Harry responds: "Love but also separation. Which I think will really surprise people, the fact that we grew up – I mean our mother was dressing us in the same clothes to start with, William didn’t like that, I think I seem to remember I found it quite funny, but the older, younger sort of sibling rivalry as such, now is only really becoming, I guess real to me.
"Like, sorry, okay, for instance I talk about the relationship between William and myself at Eton. And the fact that he didn’t really want to know me, and you know, as the younger brother that sucks."
The Duke says "that hurt at the time", adding: "But now, well the gap between me and William is very similar to Archie and Lily."
The Duke of Sussex says his brother Prince William and he told his father on the question of Camilla, the Queen Consort: "Please don’t marry her, just be together".
"William and I wanted our father to be happy and he seemed to be very, very happy with her. We asked him not to get married. He chose to and that’s his decision. But the two of them were and remain very happy together," he says.
Prince Harry adds that he is now genuinely at peace with their marriage.
Prince Harry adds on his call for reconciliation: "Though I would like to have reconciliation, I would like accountability, I’ve managed to make peace over this time with a lot of things that have happened.
"But that doesn’t mean that I’m just gonna let it go. You know, I’ve made peace with it, but I still would like reconciliation. And not only would that be wonderful for us, but it would be fantastic for them as well."
He adds: "I see a lack of scrutiny to my family towards a lot of the things that have happened in the last year."
The Duke of Sussex he "doesn’t recognise" his father and brother at the moment.
He tells ITV’s Tom Bradby: "I think there’s probably a lot of people who, after watching the documentary and reading the book, will go, how could you ever forgive your family for what they’ve done?
"People have already said that to me. And I said, forgiveness is 100 per cent a possibility because I would like to get my father back. I would like to have my brother back. At the moment, I don’t recognise them, as much as they probably don’t recognise me."
He calls the British tabloid press the "antagonist… who want to create as much conflict as possible".
Prince Harry goes on to claim in the interview: "The saddest part of that is certain members of my family and the people that work for them are complicit in that conflict. "
Harry discusses his desire for reconciliation.
He tells Mr Bradby: "No institution is immune to accountability or taking responsibility. So you can’t be immune to criticisms either.
"And you talk about, you know, scrutiny and, you know, my wife and I were scrutinised more than, probably, anybody else. I see a lack of scrutiny to my family towards a lot of the things that have happened in the last year. "
By Gordon Rayner, associate editor
Prince Harry is desperate to write a new narrative of his mother’s death, saying that even a driver who had been drinking and was speeding could never have lost control of a car in the Alma tunnel unless they were "completely blinded at the wheel".
What he has chosen to leave out of that narrative is the infamous Fiat Uno that clipped – or was clipped by – the Mercedes seconds before it crashed.
French investigators never managed to track down the car or its driver, but when a collision between two cars – one of them travelling at speed – in a confined space is added to the equation, a different picture emerges.
The inquest into Princess Diana’s death did find that her car was being pursued by paparazzi photographers, as Prince Harry repeatedly points out, but also that driver Henri Paul was drunk and driving too fast.
It also concluded that Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed might have survived if they had been wearing seatbelts.
Prince Harry says there are many things about Princess Diana’s death that are "unexplained".
"There’s a lot of things that are unexplained. I’ve been asked before whether I want to open up another inquiry. I don’t really see the point at this stage.
"But I think anyone who knows – again, this is the most amazing thing that, of over the last, what, five years, especially the last two years, the amount of people that I’ve met here in America, everyone knows where they were and what they were doing the night my mother died. And I never thought about that at all."
He recalls the "crazy" moment he drove through the tunnel himself.
"When you’ve actually experienced the same thing, which you assume your mother’s driver was experiencing at the time, then it’s really hard to, I guess, understand how some people have come away with the conclusions of that night. And that the people that were predominantly responsible for it, all got away with it."
Prince Harry says how it was "very strange" for him and his brother, then 12 and 14, going on walkabouts with mourners outside Kensington Palace after his mother’s death.
"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 Mr Bradby.
Discussing the symbolic moment the brothers walked behind Princess Diana’s coffin, the Duke of Sussex says: "There’s absolutely no way that I would let him do that by himself. And there’s absolutely no way that he would let me do that by myself. It was, if it was role reversal."
He adds: "Just recently I was, we, my brother and I were walking the same route, and we sort of joked to each other and said, ‘at least we know the way’."
Tom Bradby explains how in his memoir Spare, Prince Harry recalls seeing his mother in his dreams and saying “Mummy, Mummy, is that you?"
Prince Harry tells the interviewer: "I refer to it as post-traumatic stress injury because I’m not a person with a disorder. I know I’m not."
Prince Harry explains how his memoir Spare begins with the death of his mother.
"I never want to be in that position, part of the reason why we are here now, I never ever want to be in that position. I don’t want history to repeat itself. I do not want to be a single dad," he tells Mr Bradby.
"And I certainly don’t want my children to have a life without a mother or a father."
He adds: "I lost a lot of memories. on the other side of this mental wall, which I think is so relatable for so many people who’ve experienced loss, especially as a youngster, that inability to be able to like drag the memories back over. I think a lot of it was a defence mechanism."
Prince Harry moves onto the death of his mother, Princess Diana, in a car crash in Paris in 1997.
He recalls the moment he was told by Charles of her death at Balmoral Castle, while still a child.
He tells Mr Bradby: "I began silently pleading with Pa, or God, or both, “No, no, no.” Pa looked down into the folds of the old quilts and blankets and sheets. “There were complications. Mummy was quite badly injured and taken to hospital, darling boy.” He always called me darling boy, but he was saying it quite a lot now. "
"His voice was soft. He was in shock, it seemed. “Oh, hospital?” “Yes, with a head injury.” Did he mention paparazzi? Did he say she’d been chased? I don’t think so. I can’t swear to it but probably not.
He remembers his father telling him: “They tried, darling boy. I’m afraid she didn’t make it."
Prince Harry tells Tom Bradby in the interview that the Royal Family motto of "never complain, never explain…was just a motto".
"There was a lot of complaining and there was a lot of explaining and it continues now," he says.
Much of Prince Harry’s revelations are "jaw-dropping", interviewer Tom Bradby says in the opening of the programme.
The first question put to the Prince is: why have you done this?
He responds: "38 years, 38 years of having my story told by so many different people, with intentional spin and distortion felt like a good time to own my story and be able to tell it for myself.
"I don’t think that if I was still part of the institution that I would have been given this chance to. So, I’m actually really grateful that I’ve had the opportunity to tell my story because it’s my story to tell."
The Prince adds: "And if it had stopped, by the point that I fled my home country with my wife and my son fearing for our lives, then maybe this would’ve turned out differently. It’s hard."
The ITV Tom Bradby interview with Prince Harry has begun.
Anticipation has been building for some time for Prince Harry’s three broadcast interviews this evening.
While revelations from Spare, his memoir, have been slowly emerging, the interviews have been kept largely under wraps.
It is almost time for ITV’s one-to-one between the Duke of Sussex and Tom Brady, the News at Ten anchor and close friend of Harry’s.
Stay with us as we bring you the latest from the 95-minute programme, airing from 9pm.
In case you missed it, here’s what our associate editor Camilla Tominey made of the revelations from Spare which leaked earlier this week.
Harry’s claim in his forthcoming autobiography that William not only physically attacked him but also encouraged him to wear a Nazi uniform to a fancy dress party, suggests he is the ultimate “spare” – an over-pampered prince wanting all the privileges but none of the responsibility of royal life.
Rather than taking ownership of his actions, everything is everyone else’s fault.
Read that full analysis here.
With half an hour to go until the ITV interview airs, here’s a five-point recap of the trailers released by the broadcaster in recent days.
Prince Harry’s memoir has been mocked by a US TV host in a skit reenacting his alleged fight with the Prince of Wales.
In one excerpt from the tell-all memoir, Prince Harry references an alleged row with his brother in the kitchen of Nottingham Cottage, London – where he lived with Meghan following their engagement – in which Harry claimed Prince William grabbed him by the collar and threw him to the floor, shattering a dog bowl in the process.
Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel offered his interpretation of the allegation in a sketch titled Two Princes: A True Story on his chat show Jimmy Kimmel Live.
The skit sees actors, dressed as pop star Prince in purple feather boas and velvet robes, portraying the Duke of Sussex and the Prince of Wales.
Watch the reenactment here
In other royal news as we await tonight’s broadcast, there will be no role for Prince Harry at the King’s Coronation, despite the Duke of Sussex planning to attend, according to reports.
The historic ceremony at Westminster Abbey is scheduled for May 6 and is likely to take place amid continuing rancour over the Duke’s memoir, in which the King is characterised as jealous of the popularity of his sons and daughters-in-law.
Traditionally at coronations, the royal dukes are required to kneel before the new monarch and “pay homage” before touching the crown and kissing them on the right cheek.
But the King has reportedly scrapped the tradition and only Prince William will perform an act of homage, The Sunday Times reported. “As things stand, there is no role for Harry in the service,” a source told the paper.
Read the full story here
Queen Elizabeth II gave the Duke of Sussex a “cryptic” response when he asked her permission to marry Meghan, he reveals in his memoir.
The Duke feared he was “doomed to be the next Margaret”, he writes, in reference to his great aunt, Princess Margaret, who was not allowed to marry the love of her life, divorcee Peter Townsend.
The Duke recounts the moment he plucked up the courage to ask the Queen in the book.
He admits he was “scared” and always nervous in her presence. And the moment was made even more awkward when the Queen simply replied: “Well then I suppose I have to say yes.”
Read more here
The broadcast interviews airing around the world this evening are part of the Duke of Sussex’s publicity spree ahead of the publication of his memoir, Spare.
The book’s publisher Penguin Random House went to great lengths to keep it under wraps, however the book emerged this week through leaks and it accidentally going on sale in Spain.
Here are just some of the highlights from the memoir:
Prince Harry is set to divulge more bombshell revelations across three interviews, airing ahead of the publication of his memoir, Spare.
The interviews are likely to heap yet further anguish on the Royal family.
So, how can you watch the Duke of Sussex’s US interviews if you are in the UK, and vice versa?
Here’s all you need to know.
Welcome to The Telegraph’s live coverage of the Duke of Sussex’s interview with Tom Bradby over his new memoir Spare.
We’ll be bringing you all the latest news and reaction throughout the evening.