Prince Harry defended the secrets he spoke about the royal family in his story “spare” after reuniting with his father, King Charles.
“I don’t think we’ve aired dirty laundry publicly,” The Duke of Sussex told the Guardian in an interview released Sunday.
“It was a difficult message, but I did it in the best possible way. My conscience is clear.”
Harry, 40, argued that speaking is not a matter of “stubbornness,” and said he “has the principle.”
“It’s not about revenge, it’s about accountability,” the royal family continued, adding, “You can’t reconcile before you have the truth.”
He and his wife, Meghan Markle, have spoken out of royal duties in 2020 and have spoken openly about his feud with his family since moving to California. There they raise their children.
In Harry’s 2023 memoir, he claimed that his brother Prince William attacked him after the latter labelled “difficult”, “rude” and “polished” according to the Guardian.
“It all happened very quickly. So fast. He grabbed her by the collar, tore my necklace and he knocked me on the floor,” he insisted.
“I landed on the dog bowl. It cracked under my back and the piece cut to me. I lay there for a while, sloping, squealing me, telling me to step in and go outside.”
He allegedly claimed that Prince of Wales was the “palm”, a “press narrative” of the “suit” alum, and the latter was trying to help his younger brother.
In the book, Harry also stated that Charles, now 76, called him a “spare” to his mother, Princess Diana, after his birth in 1984.
Harry writes that the patriarch was said to have celebrated the arrival of the late Royal by saying, “Now you gave me an heir and a reserve – my work is finished.”
Charles’s alleged comment points to the royal succession line, his eldest son William, now 43, the first child to succeed the throne before Harry.
However, William has since tied the knot with Kate Middleton, welcoming three children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, and putting Harry in line.
Harry also spoke to Charles and William in an interview with him and Markle Bomb 2021 with Oprah Winfrey.
“It was really tough,” he said. “I’m part of the system with them. I’ve always been, but I think it is – and I know this very much – my siblings can’t leave that system, but I have.”
Meanwhile, Harry was reunited with Charles (76) in London on Wednesday after seeing the latter last in February 2024 when the King revealed his cancer diagnosis.
The gathering of father-son duo at Clarence House, Charles’ home, lasted about an hour.
I also heard Harry showed him a photo of his two children, Charles, and before he set out for the Invictus Games event, he told reporters that Charles was doing something “great.”
Harry appears to be moving forward by reconciliating his relationship with Charles after revealing in May that “some members” of his family have grumbled with “a lot of things,” including those he wrote in his book.
