By Sheila Mckeinzie-
The Duke of Sussex has said he wants his father and brother back during an ITV interview due to be released this Sunday, two days before his memoir is published.
Prince Harry, whose docuseries on Netflix about the royal family has divided opinion in the Uk, recently accused the royal institution as being prepared to lie to protect his brother, Prince William, but were not prepared to tell the truth to protect him.
The prince says “I would like to get my father back, I would like to have my brother back” in a preview clip from the interview with the ITV News at Ten presenter Tom Bradby.
The 90-minute programme produced by ITN Productions for ITV is to be broadcast two days before Harry’s autobiography, Spare, is published on 10 January.
The Duke of Sussex also says “I want a family, not an institution” and “they’ve shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile”.
In a series of clips released by the broadcaster on 8 January, Harry says “It never needed to be this way” and refers to “the leaking and the planting”.
He also says “they feel as though it is better to keep us somehow as the villains”.
“I would like to get my father back. I would like to get my brother back.”
ITV will broadcast an interview with Prince Harry next Sunday, featuring his conversation with journalist Tom Bradby about his personal relationships, the death of his mother, Diana, and a look ahead at his future.
The programme will be shown two days before Harry’s autobiography Spare is published on 10 January.
An interview with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes will also air on 8 January.
Betrayal
In a clip from the interview released on Monday morning, Harry said “silence is betrayal” over the alleged failure of Buckingham Palace to defend him and his wife Meghan Markle before they stepped down as senior royals.
He said he has tried to keep his conversations with the Royal Family private, but to combat stories in the tabloids he had been forced to make his concerns public.
“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.”
In a series of clips cut together with no questions heard, Harry says “it never needed to be this way” and refers to “the leaking and the planting” before adding: “I want a family, not an institution.”
He also says in the interview that “they feel as though it is better to keep us somehow as the villains” and that “they have shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile”, although it is unclear to whom he is referring.
In a separate interview, to be broadcast on US television, Harry told the 60 Minutes programme on CBS News that “silence is betrayal” while talking about the alleged failure of Buckingham Palace to defend him and the Duchess of Sussex before they stepped down as senior royals.
In a clip from the interview, to be broadcast on Sunday, Harry tells the journalist Anderson Cooper: “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.”
“The family motto is ‘never complain, never explain’, but it’s just a motto,” he added. “[Buckingham Palace] will feed or have a conversation with a correspondent, and that correspondent will literally be spoon-fed information and write the story, and at the bottom of it, they will say they have reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment. But the whole story is Buckingham Palace commenting.
“So when we’re being told for the past six years, ‘we can’t put a statement out to protect you’, but you do it for other members of the family, there becomes a point when silence is betrayal.”
Buckingham Palace said it would not be commenting on either trailer.
Harry has previously said that Spare is written “not as the prince I was born but as the man I have become”. It will include “the highs and lows, the mistakes, the lessons learned”, he has said, promising it will be a “first-hand account of my life that’s accurate and wholly truthful”.
The book’s publisher, Penguin, described the memoir as “intimate and heartfelt” and “written with raw, unflinching honesty”.
An audiobook, read by Harry, will also be released on the same day.
The interview comes weeks after the release of the six-part Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan in December, which broke viewing records at the streaming service and divided viewers with its explosive details.
The series, directed by Liz Garbus, included personal footage shot by the couple and their accounts of their heartbreak over wars with the palace, claims of Prince William shouting at his brother and briefing against them and the stresses over privacy action against the Mail on Sunday, which they believe led to them miscarrying.
Last month, the Sun was forced to apologise after publishing a column by Jeremy Clarkson in which he said he “hated” Meghan “on a cellular level”.
The statement by The Sun said it now acknowledged that with freedom of expression comes responsibility- a tacit admission that the publication did not know responsibility comes with freedom of expression.
The article rapidly attracted widespread criticism and became the Independent Press Standard’s Organisation’s most complained about article.
The article was later removed from the Sun’s website at Clarkson’s request, but the publication said nothing about disciplinary measures against the television presenter.
A letter led by Caroline Nokes, a Member of Parliament from the ruling Conservative party, and chair of Parliament’s Women and Equalities Committee called for action to be taken against Jeremy Clarkson by the paper.
The letter published on Nokes’ social media and signed by 64 other lawmakers from various political parties, condemned the “violent misogynistic” language used against Meghan.
“This sort of language has no place in our country, and it is unacceptable that it was allowed to be published in a mainstream newspaper,” it reads.
“Ms Markle has faced multiple credible threats to her life, requiring the intervention of the Metropolitan Police. Hateful articles like the one written by Mr Clarkson do not exist in a vacuum and directly contribute to this unacceptable climate of hatred and violence.”