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. While he accused his family of 'getting in bed with the devil', he conceded they 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'.
Harry was not paid for Sunday night's interview, which saw him alternate between answering questions from Bradby and reading sections from his memoir.
In a later interview with CBS's Anderson Cooper in the US, Harry also had harsh words for Camilla, who he accused of being a 'villain' who 'needed to rehabilitate her image'.
He added that she was 'dangerous' and leaking stories to the media in a bid to get the crown.
As he once again twisted the knife on his closest family members, the Duke -
Kate and Meghan did not get on from day one, while 'stereotyping' prevented the American actress from being properly welcomed into the royal family, Harry said.
The Duke 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', adding that even he was 'guilty' of it.
Harry and Bradby joked about how, after he introduced Meghan to his family, he discovered his family were fans of Suits, the show that she starred in during her time as an actress.
But he said it was 'fair' to say that, according to Bradby, 'almost from the get-go it's just that they don't get on.'
Asked why that was, he said: 'Lots of – lots of different reasons but I – look, as I again detail a lot, I had put a lot of hope in the idea that, you know, it'd be William and Kate and me and whoever.
'I thought the – you know, the four of us would, you know, bring me and William closer together, we could go out and do work together, um, which I did a lot as the third wheel to them, um, which was fun at times but also, I guess slightly awkward at times as well.
'But um yeah, I think – I don't think they were ever expecting me to get – or to become – to get into a relationship with – with someone like Meghan who had, you know, a very successful career.
He added: 'There was a lot of stereotyping that was happening, that I was guilty of as well, at the beginning.'
He said the 'stereotyping' of Meghan, in part by William and Kate, was causing a 'barrier' to his family, preventing them from 'welcoming her in.'
Asked what he meant, he said: 'Well, American actress, divorced, biracial, there's – there's all different parts to that and what that can mean but if you are, like a lot of my family do, if you are reading the press, the British tabloids, [Yeah] at the same time as living the life, then there is a tendency where you could actually end up living in the tabloid bubble rather than the actual reality.'
Meghan was previously married to American TV producer Trevor Engelson for three years from 2011 until 2014.
Before meeting Harry, Meghan had starred in US legal drama series Suits in which she played paralegal-turned-lawyer Rachel Zane.
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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'.
Harry also said the idea of himself, his wife and the Prince and Princess of Wales being the 'fab four' was 'something the British press created' and it 'creates competition'.
He told Bradby: '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.'
Harry added that his brother William 'raised some concerns' about his marriage to Meghan before their wedding in May 2018.
He said: 'He never tried to dissuade me from marrying Meghan, but he aired some concerns very early, 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.'
The Royal Family has avoided accountability 'on a lot of things', the Duke of Sussex told Bradby
Speaking about what he wants from his family and book, Harry told Bradby: 'I want reconciliation, but first there needs to be some accountability. You can't just continue to say to me that I'm delusional and paranoid when all the evidence is stacked up, because I was genuinely terrified about what's gonna happen to me.'
Referencing his decision to step down as a senior royal in 2019, he continued: 'And then we have a 12-month transition period, and everyone doubles down. My wife shares her experience.'
He said that instead of backing off, 'both the institution and the media doubled down.'
Bradby then addresses the claims Harry makes about his stepmother in Spare. Harry narrates the passage that reads: 'Shortly after our private meetings with her [Camilla], she began to develop her long-term strategy, a campaign directed at marriage and with time, the Crown (with the blessing of our father, we supposed).
'News stories started appearing in all the newspapers about her conversations with Willy, stories which recounted lots of small details, none of which came from my brother, of course.'
Harry says in the book that they could have only come from 'the one person' with intimate knowledge of the meetings, who could provide details with 'pin point' accuracy.
Charles had tried to win over his sons before asking the public to accept Camilla, the book claims. Harry then astonishingly says that meeting the future Queen Consort for the first time was like an 'injection'. He later says that ultimately he and William approved of Camilla.
He writes: 'I remember wondering... if she would be cruel to me; if she would be like all the wicked stepmothers in the stories'.
But Harry told Bradby: 'There's no part of any of the things that I've said are scathing towards any member of my family, especially not my stepmother. There are things that have happened that have been incredibly hurtful, um, some in the past, some current.'
He added: 'No institution is immune to accountability or taking responsibility. So you can't be immune to criticisms either.'
Harry insisted that while he loved his father, the former Prince of Wales struggled with parenthood and claims Charles would have agreed with this assessment.
Narrating his memoir in an interview with Tom Bradby, the Duke of Sussex said: '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.'
Taking a further swipe at his father, Harry said he was 'never made' for single-parenthood but concedes: 'To be fair, he tried'.
Harry also recounts the moment he told his father over dinner that he was suffering with mental health issues and claims Charles expressed regret on not getting him help sooner.
'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,' Harry said in the interview.
'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,' he added.
The Duke of Sussex said that 'planting and leaking' by members of his family has caused 'millions of words' to be written 'trying to trash my wife'.
Harry said he wrote his tell-all book because of '38 years... of spin and distortion'.
The memoir, which is due to be published on Tuesday, contains a string of revelations - with Harry's brother the Prince of Wales the subject of a number of them.
The claims made about William include that he physically assaulted Harry in 2019, and that he was 'wasted' on rum hours before his wedding. Bradby asked the duke what his brother would say to him about the book.
'He'd probably say all sorts of different things,' Harry said.
The Duke of Sussex has accused the royal family of a 'really horrible reaction' on the day of the Queen's death.
In his interview with Tom Bradby on ITV, 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'.
His words come after it was reported he claimed in his memoir, Spare, that Meghan was 'not welcome' at Balmoral, with the King allegedly telling Harry not to bring his wife.
Harry said to his father: 'Don't ever speak about my wife that way,' according to the Telegraph.
Speaking about September 8, he told Bradby: '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.'
In the controversial tell-all book Spare, Harry also recounts his final words to his grandmother when he visited her body at Balmoral.
'I whispered that I hoped she was happy and that she was with grandfather now.
'I said that I admired her for having carried out her duties until the end: the Jubilee, the welcoming of the new Prime Minister,' Harry revealed.
'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.'
Harry said he decided to write his memoir because it felt like a good time to tell his story.
'(After) 38 years of having my story told by so many different people with intentional spin and distortion, (it) felt like a good time to own my story and be able to tell it for myself.
'You know, 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.'
In the past the duke has complained about the invasion of his private life by the media.
Bradby asked him how he could now justify the amount of disclosures made in the book.
'There was a motto, a family motto of 'never complain, never explain,' he said.
'And what people have realised now, through the Netflix doc, documentary and numerous stories coming out over the years, is that, that was just a motto.
'There was a lot of complaining and there was a lot of explaining and it continues now.' He said the 'truth' is now coming from his own lips, rather than through the tabloid media.
'But for me, I sit here now, speaking to you, answering the questions that you put to me, and the words and the truth will come from my lips rather than using other people, especially through the tabloid media.
'And we're six years into it now, and I have spent every single year of those six, doing everything I can privately to get through to my family.'
Harry said that it 'never needed to be this way' and that he had tried speaking to his family.
'And the thing that is the saddest about this, Tom, is it never needed to be this way,' he added.
'It never needed to get to this point. I've had conversations, I've written letters, I've written emails, and everything is just, 'no, this is not what's happening. You are imagining it'.
'And that's really hard to take. 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.'
During the interview, Harry was asked about his 'consistently scathing' comments in his book about his father's wife, Queen Consort Camilla, and his claims that his 'interests were sacrificed on her PR altar'.
Narrating excerpts from his memoir, Harry recounted how he and his brother Prince William begged their father not to marry the now Queen Consort Camilla, but claimed their pleas fell on deaf ears and the former Mrs Parker Bowles began a 'campaign aimed [at] marriage, and eventually the Crown, with Pa's blessing we presumed'.
The duke added that 'she began to play the long game' with the brothers by holding private summits with them, before accusing her of leaking stories about them to the media.
'Stories began to appear everywhere in all the papers about her private conversation with Willie, stories that contained pinpoint accurate details, none of which had come from Willie, of course. They could only have been leaked by the other one other person present,' Harry said.
He adds in the interview that Charles 'seemed to be very, very happy' with Camilla and insists that all he and William wanted was their father to be happy.
But despite his salvo of attacks on his stepmother, the Duke of Sussex insisted there was 'no part of any of the things that I've said are scathing towards any member of my family, especially not my stepmother'.
Asked about his shocking claim that his elder brother Prince William physically attacked him at Nottingham Cottage in 2019, the Duke of Sussex told Bradby how he witnessed the 'red mist' come over the heir to the throne, who wanted him to fight back.
Harry said like most siblings, he and the Prince of Wales 'used to fight all the time' as children, but the alleged assault in the ground of Kensington Palace – which came after William is said to have branded Meghan Markle 'rude' and 'difficult' – was another story.
'What was different here was this level of frustration and, you know, I talk about the red mist that I had for so many years, and I saw this red mist in him,' he said.
A narrated extract from Spare recounts the alleged attack by the Prince of Wales, who Harry accuses of grabbing him by the collar, breaking his necklace and knocking him to the ground, where he landed on his dog's bowl, which cracked under his back.
Prince William is said by Harry in the book to have urged his younger brother to hit him back, but Harry claims he told him to leave, before William later returned to apologise and asked him not to tell Meghan of the alleged assault.
In the ITV interview, Harry said he could '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'.
The duke insisted he 'chose not to' physically retaliate against William because he was 'in a more comfortable place with my own anger'.
But rather than accepting any responsibility for the damage caused to relationship with his brother, Harry laid the blame firmly on the media and staff within William's office.
'So much of the relationship between me and William and the way it played out was because of the narrative, or the – the distorted narrative that was being pushed through the British press.
'And some people within his office that were feeding him utter nonsense,' Harry told Bradby.
Harry added he and William used to shoot each other with BB guns.
The Duke of Sussex revealed how he 'demanded' to see pictures of Princess Diana's fatal crash as he struggled to believe his mother had really died.
Speaking in an ITV interview to promote his memoir, Harry said he had been searching for 'evidence' that his mother was dead and describes looking at images of her devastating 1997 collision.
The Duke also claimed there was a lot about the crash that remained 'unexplained' - and suggested that if the paparazzi were removed from the equation she would still be alive.
Referring to a section in his book, Tom Bradby said Harry had asked his private secretary to see the 'secret government file' on Diana's death before Harry narrates a passage from Spare.
In his book, Harry recounts the searing moment he first laid eyes on the images of his beloved mother laying in the debris of the catastrophic crash.
'At last, I came to the photos of mummy. There were lights around her, auras almost halos....The colour of the lights was the same colour as her hair. Golden,' Harry reads.
Still very young, he struggled at first to understand what the lights might be before coming to the shocking realisation that they were 'visages' of the paparazzi captured in the flash of the cameras.
'As I realise their true origin, my stomach clenched. Flashes. They were flashes, and within some of the flashes were ghostly visages. And half visages,' he continued.
'Paps, and reflected paps and refracted paps on all the smooth metal and services and glass windscreens. Those who'd chased her.
'They'd never stopped shooting her...Not one of them was checking on her, offering her help, not even comforting her.'
However he said he saw several images: 'I saw the back of her blonde hair, you know, slumped on the back of the seat.' Explaining the thinking behind his request, Harry said: 'I was looking for evidence...that it actually happened, that it was true.
'But I was also looking for something to hurt, because at that point I was still pretty numb to the whole thing.' He added that it 'still hurts' to know that his mother was photographed as she lay dying.
He said there were still several questions marks over the death and having driven through the Paris tunnel himself, added that it 'impossible to lose control' unless you 'completely blinded'.
Despite believing that the people responsible for the crash - the paparazzi - 'all got away it', Harry said he doesn't see the point of reopening an inquiry.
The Duke of Sussex has revealed that his daughter Lili is 'obsessed' with older brother Archie.
Harry, in his ITV interview with Tom Bradby to promote his autobiography Spare, recounted how three-year-old Archie has to tell his one-year-old sibling: 'No Lili. I need my space.'
The duke was discussing how his brother the Prince of Wales ignored him at Eton, saying: 'He didn't want anything to do with me. And that hurt at the time.'
But speaking about his own children, he added: 'But now, well the gap between me and William is very similar to Archie and Lili, and to see Lili obsessed with Archie, and Archie like 'No, no Lily, I need my space, I need my space', now I get it.
'I get how irritating the younger sibling can be to the older sibling.
'But in the moment, at the time, I didn't - I didn't really grasp that, I didn't really realise it, but yes, I've always loved my brother.'
Lady Susan Hussey 'never meant any harm' to the charity campaigner who accused her of racial abuse, Prince Harry said.
The duke defended the former lady-in-waiting to the Queen, who was embroiled in a race row and later resigned from her position after repeatedly asking Ngozi Fulani where she was 'really from' during a Buckingham Palace reception in November.
Lady Susan later met up with Ms Fulani, who was representing abuse charity Sistah Space at the event, and apologised.
In ITV's Harry: The Interview, the royal continued to back Lady Susan - and he said he would never reveal the identity of the family member who allegedly enquired about son Archie's skin tone.
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.
The famous public school charges £42,000 a year for boarders. It was founded in 1550 but traces its history back more than 1,300 years, with alumni including actor Hugh Bonneville and WWII codebreaker Alan Turing.
Bradby boasts some impressive family connections, with his great-grandmother winning an Olympic gold for tennis in 1908, while his godfather, Matt Bradby, won two caps with the England rugby team in the early 1920s.
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.'
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.
Bradby also has a career as a fiction writer - publishing nine thrillers including Shadow Dancer, which in 2012 was made into a film starring Andrea Riseborough and Clive Owen. Despite his high profile in the UK, Bradby is less well known in America, and has joked about being mistaken on Twitter for the American football legend Tom Brady.
The journalist has been married to his jewellery designer wife Claudia since 1994 and they have three children, Jack, Louisa and Sam. In a newspaper profile, he said his favourite drink is a Talisker whisky with ice, and he would choose Jerusalem and I Vow To Thee My Country as the hymns to be played at his funeral.
The journalist was signed off work for three months in 2018 after developing insomnia and what he describes as an addiction to the sleeping pill zopiclone.
Bradby, who has worked for ITV News producer ITN for 30 years, told how Claudia had warned him he was close to a 'very dangerous cliff-edge' and urged him to see a psychiatrist. At his lowest he believed he would lose his family and job.
Speaking to former Downing Street director of communications Craig Oliver, for his podcast Desperately Seeking Wisdom, Bradby said: 'One of the really nice things about [being open] is people feel able to come and talk to me about when they're not feeling well. And it just makes you realise, God, how many people out there are suffering and need help?'
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'.
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.
He said: '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.
'And I also know 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. (It) was absolutely horrendous, the response.'
His backing comes in contrast to his brother, Prince William, whose spokesman condemned as 'unacceptable' the comments made by Lady Susan, the heir's own godmother, in the wake of the furore.
Harry said he would not describe as racist comments allegedly made by an unnamed family member about Archie's skin colour, after the bombshell allegation was raised during the Sussexes' interview with US chat show host Oprah Winfrey last March.
Harry told Tom Bradby: 'You speak to any other mixed race couple around the world, and you will probably find that the white side of the family have either openly discussed it, or secretly discussed 'What are the kids gonna look like?'
'And that is part of a bigger conversation that needs to be had.
He added: '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.'
Asked why he had not identified the family member involved, Harry said: 'I will never talk about that.'
Despite the constant attacks on his family, the Duke of Sussex said he is 'very happy and very at peace' living with wife Meghan and their two children Archie and Lilibet in their multimillion-dollar California mansion.
He claimed he is 'in a better place than I've ever been', which he said 'probably angers some people [and] infuriates others' who never thought he would step away from life as a senior royal.
'It wasn't something that I would have necessarily chosen at the time, but I own my story and I own the results.
'I've got two beautiful kids and an amazing wife, like the happiness in my family now I have never felt anywhere else before,' he told Bradby.
'I guess there's also a lot of people who refuse to accept that I could be happy out here, because of what I've left behind. But the reality is I've never been happier,' he added.
Asked if the peace and happiness he felt was because he was physically away from 'aggravating' factors like the British media, Harry said 'the safety of my family is my priority', adding this was 'the main reason' behind Megxit.
Of his new life, Harry said: 'I feel safe here, my family feel safe here, I'm happy, my family's happy'.
He admitted that while it is 'difficult going back', he believes he is mentally strong enough to attempt a reconciliation with the Royal Family.
The duke insisted he is in 'such a good headspace now, that whatever conversations need to happen, or whatever the future holds to the point of where, can there be reconciliation and is there some, whatever comes from that, that I'm in a really good place to be able to have those conversations and come back and not linger on it, or not let it pull me back in.'
Harry said Jeremy Clarkson's 'cruel' article in the Sun newspaper about his wife Meghan encourages people around the world to believe it is an acceptable way to treat women.
He 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.
'To use my stepmother's words recently as well, there is a global pandemic of violent - violence against women.
'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.'
The Sun apologised after the piece - in which Clarkson said 'everyone who's my age thinks the same way' - became the Independent Press Standards Organisation's most complained-about article.
During the ITV interview, Harry said he felt a responsibility to change the media before referencing Caroline Flack, who took her own life at the age of 40 in February 2020.
A coroner ruled that Flack took her own life after learning prosecutors were going to press ahead with an assault charge over an incident involving her boyfriend, Lewis Burton, and could not face the press coverage.
Harry, who claimed he was not at war with the media, said about the press: 'I made peace with it, I was willing to let a lot of it go back in 2020 when we left the country.
'And if living in a new country, minding our own business during lockdown, not saying anything, not doing anything that would affect the British media at all, that every single day there's an attack, well then, the assumption of it going away or moving on isn't the case.
'So I feel as though there is a responsibility to see this through because I think the benefits to a lot of people will be felt. You know I talk about Caroline Flack in the book as well.'
Hollywood actress Cameron Diaz is also referenced in the headline-hitting interview which aired on Sunday evening.
Bradby said: 'Let's tackle the press, I just wanna concede a couple of things so we don't have to talk about them because it's very clear in the book, paparazzi horrific around your mother, still very horrible today, totally get that.
'I think everyone watching this will get that, press doesn't always tell the truth about you, putting that mildly, and you're quite funny about that in the book, this relationship to you, there's your relationship with Cameron Diaz who you never met and there's some lighter moments in the discussion of the press.'
Harry said his family tried to control the British press 'for years' but added it was something they did not want to change because it 'benefits them'.
Harry: The Interview is available to view on ITVX.
Prince Harry suggested that his stepmother the Queen Consort was a 'villain' in an interview aired last night.
Promoting his memoir Spare with the CBS network in the US, the royal also appears to suggest he has used psychedelic drugs as part of therapy.
Prompted by interviewer Anderson Cooper about mentions of psychedelics in the book, Harry answers: 'I would never recommend people to do this recreationally. 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 my mother – 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.'
The prince also confirmed for the first time that his brother and family did not invite him to join them when they flew up to Scotland after the death of the Queen.
Referring to all of his family members 'jumping on a plane together,' he confirmed, 'I was not invited.' He admitted that he had not spoken to his brother, William, or even his father 'for a while'.
And there were harsh words for Camilla, who he accused of being a 'villain' who 'needed to rehabilitate her image'. He added that she was 'dangerous' and leaking stories to the media in a bid to get the crown.
'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 [a] trade of information,' he said.
'And with a family built on hierarchy, and with her on the way to being Queen Consort, there was gonna [sic] be people or bodies left in the street because of that.'
He avoided addressing why, given his clear antipathy to the monarchy, he and Meghan did not renounce their titles as Duke and Duchess of Sussex. 'And what difference would that make?' was his only answer.
Here is the full transcript of Harry: The Interview which the Duke of Sussex recorded with Tom Bradby, and aired on ITV on Sunday evening.
It includes voiceovers by Bradby, and Harry reading extracts from the audiobook of his memoir, Spare.
Archived voice of reporter: Your Royal Highness - may we see your son?
Bradby voiceover: He's the most talked about man on the planet, who has now written an autobiography...
Bradby: Very good to see you.
Harry: Tom, nice to see you.
Bradby voiceover: ...that is so staggeringly frank, it is less a spotlight on royal life than a lightning strike.
Harry reading excerpt: My God. Sibling rivalry. Had we not got past this yet? The whole heir versus spare thing?
He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace and he knocked me to the floor.
Bradby: Wouldn't your brother say to you, 'Harry, how could you do this to me after everything, after everything we went through?' Wouldn't that be what he would say?
Harry: He'd probably say all sorts of different things.
Bradby voiceover: Harry and I have known each other for more than 20 years now, through good times - and bad. So, he's invited me out to California, to talk about a book that I needed a long lie down after reading.
Harry reading excerpt: She began to play the long game. A campaign aimed marriage, and eventually the crown.
Bradby: Do you still believe in the monarchy?
Harry: Yes
Bradby: Do you believe you'll play a part in its future?
Harry: I don't know. I really don't know.
Harry reading excerpt: I love my mother country and I love my family and I always will. I just wish, in the second-darkest moment of my life, they'd both been there for me.
Bradby: You haven't so much burnt your bridges as taken a flame-thrower to them.
Harry: Well, they've shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile.
Bradby voiceover: It is, if you will forgive the pun on the title, an unsparing account of an extraordinary life.
Bradby: There's a fair amount of drugs, marijuana, magic mushrooms, cocaine. I mean, that's gonna surprise people.
Harry: But important to acknowledge.
Bradby voiceover: He calls it, the simple truth.
Harry: I would like to get my father back. I would like to have my brother back.
Bradby: If so, much of it is just jaw-dropping.
Clapper loader: Harry the interview.
Harry: Harry the interview? What an original name!
Bradby: By any account, this is an extraordinary tale and from your perspective, it's a holistic account of your life and I'd say to anyone who's sitting down to watch this tonight, whatever you think, whatever's gone before, this book is, takes things to a whole new level because it's a complete account for your, of your life. However, I think I do have to start with a simple question, which is why, why have you written it?
Harry: 38 years, 38 years of having my story told by so many different people, um, with intentional spin and distortion felt like a good time to own my story and be able to tell it for myself. You know, I don't, 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.
Bradby: Now, pretty much everyone watching this will be from a family and the idea that someone in the family is going to tell the world, all the family arguments and secrets would be very difficult for people and of course the accusation will be, you've done it to fund your new lifestyle, effectively you've traded family secrets. So, how do you justify the level of disclosure that is in this book?
Harry: Well, there's been a, which I, I suppose lots of people know now, there was a motto, a family motto of 'never complain, never explain'. And what people have realised now, through the Netflix doc, documentary and numerous stories coming out over the years, is that, that was just a motto. There was a lot of complaining and there was a lot of explaining and it continues now.
Um, but for me, I sit here now, speaking to you, answering the questions that you put to me, um, and the words and the truth will come from my lips rather than using other people, especially through the tabloid media. Um, and we're six years into it now, um, and I have spent every single year of those six, doing everything I can privately, to get through to my family.
And the thing that is the saddest about this, Tom, is it never needed to be this way. It never needed to get to this point. I've had conversations, I've written letters, I've written emails, and everything is just, 'no, you, this is not what's happening. You, you are, you are imagining it'. And that's really, that's really hard to take. 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.
Bradby: There's a lot to pick up on there and we will. But, let's start at the beginning. We are going to use chunks of your audiobook, which you read yourself, to help give people, and just to be clear, there are times when, let the narrative run, because it is an extraordinary narrative, and times when, you know, I may challenge you on things that you are saying later. And it begins with the utterly shattering night that your father comes to sit on your bed in Balmoral.
Harry reading excerpt: He sat down on the edge of the bed, he put a hand on my knee: 'Darling boy, mummy's been in a car crash.' I remember thinking, 'Crash OK? But she's alright, yes?' I vividly remember that thought flashing through my mind and I remember waiting patiently for Pa to confirm that indeed, Mummy was alright, and I remember him not doing that.
There was then a shift internally. 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. The paps were such a problem for Mummy, for everyone, it didn't need to be said. I thought again, 'injured but she's OK, she's been taken to hospital, they'll fix her head, and we'll go and see her. Today, tonight at the latest'. 'They tried, darling boy. I'm afraid she didn't make it.'
Bradby: Talk me through that appalling, horrific evening.
Harry: Um, you know, thinking back to when I was 12 years old, sitting in that sunken bed, um, at Balmoral Castle, I went, I took myself back to that moment and tried to remember as much as possible. You know, my father coming in, in his dressing gown and sharing that news with me, only now as part of writing the book, that I really think about how many hours he'd been awake. And the compassion that I have for him, as a parent having to sit with that for many, many hours, ringing up friends of his, trying to work out, how the hell do I break this to my two sons?
And 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. And I certainly don't want my children to have a life without a mother or a father.
Bradby: One of the things I found saddest in the book is the way, as I understand it, kind of begins with your mother's death because you have a problem with the memories before then. Is that right? You sort of...
Harry: Yeah. It's almost...
Bradby: ...you've lost them and that just seems so sad.
Harry: Yeah, I know. I lost a lot of memories, on the other side of this mental wall. Um, which again, I think is so relatable for so many people who've experienced loss, especially as a youngster, um, that inability to be able to like drag the memories back over. Um, but I think a lot of it was a defence mechanism.
Bradby: But just on that, one of the things that really surprised me in the book is the way you talk about genuinely appearing to have half-convinced yourself that your mother was in fact still alive and in hiding.
Harry: Yeah.
Bradby: I mean, like, you talk about seeing her in your dreams and saying, 'Mummy, Mummy, is that you?'
Harry: Mm-hmm.
Bradby: I mean, it, it's a haunting description of really, post-traumatic stress disorder really, isn't it? I mean, that's what, that's what the whole early part of this book is?
Harry: Yeah, but I would, I, I refer to it as post-traumatic stress injury because I don't, I'm not a person with a disorder. I know I'm not.
Bradby: But you bottle it up for years, don't you? I mean, you don't talk about it like sometimes you say your brother, you, you know, really wanted to talk about it, but you couldn't.
Harry: Um, I cried once, um, at the burial. Um, and, you know, I go into detail about talking how, you know, how strange it was and how actually there was some guilt that I, that I felt, and I think William felt as well, by walking around the outside of Kensington Palace and the 50,000 bouquets of flowers to our mother. And there we were shaking people's hands, smiling. I've seen the videos, right?
I've looked back, I look back over it all. And the wet hands that we were shaking, we couldn't understand why their hands were wet. But it was all the tears that they were wiping away. So that was very strange for us, as, you know, youngsters, you know, 12 and 14 at the time and seeing this outpouring of emotion from millions, hundreds of millions of people, and 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.
Bradby: You write about it incredibly movingly in the book, you write about the funeral and the surreal nature of it. And at one point it's discussed that maybe William should walk behind the, the coffin alone, and you say, 'No, Willy,' as you call him, 'if the situation is reverse, he would never let me do it alone.' And that's why you decide to do it. But it's a completely surreal moment for both of you. Right?
Harry: Yeah, I mean, I also, like, there was a lot of conversations that happened around times like that, of which I wasn't part of, and William wasn't part of, he was probably more part of it than I was. But, you know, the decision was made for both of us to walk behind, uh, our mother's coffin. And 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, by myself. It was, if it was role reversal.
So, you know, it happened, um, the memories of the bridles chinking, you know, going down the mall, the hooves going down the, the concrete and the occasional, you know, gravel underneath the foot and the wails from the crowd. But otherwise complete silence is something that will stick with me forever.
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'. Um, but otherwise it was very similar. The only difference was the levels of emotion because our grandmother had finished life - there was more, I think, of a celebration and respect and recognition to what she had accomplished. Whereas our mother was taken away far too young.
Bradby: Another thing that seems to have stayed with you and I think will stay with anyone who reads the book, is you get to the moment where you demand of Jamie, your private secretary, that you want to see the secret government file. And your description of that is searing.
Harry reading excerpt: At last, I came to the photos of Mummy. There were lights around her, auras, almost halos. How strange. The colour of the lights was the same colour as her hair. Golden. I didn't know what the lights were. I couldn't imagine. I came up with all sorts of supernatural explanations. As I realise their true origin, my stomach clenched. Flashes. They were flashes, and within some of the flashes were ghostly visage and half-visages.
Paps, and reflected paps and refracted paps on all the smooth metal services and glass windscreens. Those men who'd chased her. They'd never stopped shooting her while she lay between the seats. Unconscious or semi-conscious. And in their frenzy, they'd sometimes accidentally photographed each other. Not one of them was checking on her, offering her help, not even comforting her. They were just shooting, shooting, shooting.
Harry: The idea that she'd been taken away and that William and I were now motherless, was something that I just couldn't comprehend. Like, I'd heard people talking about there being photographs. By this point, I was starting to understand the involvement of the paparazzi chasing her.
And to this day, I will remain eternally grateful for Jamie for showing me, what he believed I needed to see, but removing the stuff that he knew I didn't need to see. Um, I don't know where I'd be now if I saw the stuff that I wanted to see, that I demanded to see. But I was a young...
Bradby: What did he take out?
Harry: He took out the more, the more, uh, I guess descriptive photo, photographs. Um, I saw the photographs of the reflection of all the paparazzi in the window at the same time...
Bradby: Taking pictures of your mother as she's dying, rather than helping her.
Harry: Exactly. And that, you know, that still hurts, but you know, you can see that I saw the back of her blonde hair, you know, slumped on the back of the seat. There were other photographs, um, that would probably show my mother's face and blood. Um, and those, I assume were the ones that Jamie removed, and I'm grateful to him for that.
But I was, I think at that point I was looking for, I was looking for, I was looking for evidence that it was, that it actually happened, that it was true. But I was also looking for something to hurt, because at that point I was still pretty numb to the whole thing. That was, again, my body, my sort of nervous system just kind of shut down and said like, let's not go there.
Bradby: You insist on being driven through the tunnel.
Harry: Yep.
Bradby: At the same speed as your mother was travelling. And then you discover your brother has insisted on the same thing totally separately, you didn't, and that's gonna strike people as I think that's gonna again...
Harry: Yeah...
Bradby: ...it's a searing passage to read.
Harry reading excerpt: Then we came to the mouth of the tunnel. We zipped ahead, went over the lip of the tunnel's entrance, the bump that supposedly sent mummy's Mercedes veering off course. But the lip was nothing, we barely felt it. As the car entered the tunnel I leaned forward, watched the light change to a kind of watery orange, watched the concrete pillars flicker past. Fphfff, Fphfff Fphfff. I counted them, counted my heartbeats and in a few seconds, we emerged from the other side.
I sat back. Quietly I said, 'Is that all of it? It's nothing, just a straight tunnel.' I'd always imagined the tunnel was some treacherous passageway, inherently dangerous but it was just a short, simple, no-frills tunnel. No reason anyone should ever die inside it.
Harry: Um, I don't think I would've been able to cope with that as a, as a teenager. You know, once I was in my 20s and happened to be there for Rugby World Cup, I was like, you know, 'let's, let's, let's do this'. But also, again, there were still so many question marks that were unanswered, especially from the inquest. You know, William and I were sat in a room, and we were told that the event was like a bicycle chain.
And if you remove just one of those links from the chain, the end result doesn't happen. And he, 'cause that was our specific question was like, 'where did the paparazzi fit in that?' And his response was, 'you remove one of those links, ie the paparazzi? And the result wouldn't have been the same.' Um, so yeah...
Bradby: You wanted an inquiry. Do you still have questions about that night? I mean, do you, is there anything about that night that you worry is still unexplained? Or do you think you...
Harry: There's a lot of things that are unexplained. Um, but I've been asked before whether I want to open up a, you know, another inquiry. I don't really see the point at this stage. Um, 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.
It's, yeah, it was, it wasn't a crazy thing to do at the time, to drive through the tunnel. Um, but as you can imagine, at this point, I was old enough to drive myself. So, to sit in the back of a car and have this wonderful Irishman, uh, drive me through the tunnel at the same speed, there was no danger of anybody losing control even after a drink or a couple of drinks, however.
Bradby: Mmm.
Harry: Almost physically impossible to lose control of a vehicle unless you are completely blinded at the wheel. So, once I started driving myself and the occasions - which were there were multiple of driving back into London from being in the country for the weekend, um, I would have paparazzi literally jump on the bonnet of the car - and I physically couldn't see anything.
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.
And, not, on top of that, um, you know, so many, so much of the British press, who were part of it, who fuelled it, um, said that things would change, but they haven't changed.
Bradby: Let's lighten the tone for a moment because we then go on to talk about your teenage years - somewhat chaotic in parts, I think you might, uh, you might acknowledge. Um, but there's some funny, funny moments in the book, um, like you trying to teach your Great-Grandmother, the Queen Mother, how to do Ali G? Go on then, do it.
Harry: That was it.
Bradby: That was it, right.
Harry: That was it. I can't do it again because it probably wouldn't work. No, she, she had this amazing, uh, flick of the wrist. Um, and yeah, I will never forget that, that barbecue night in, it was, it was wonderful.
I felt, I felt like I was part of the family. I felt like, I felt very different to what I'd felt before that. I felt slightly isolated, I felt slightly different. I don't know what was going on and maybe that was again, the sort of the, the suppression of the trauma and the grief. But I had a proper laugh with my, with my, uh, my Gan-gan then. And, you know, she was so close to my father as well. And that relationship and something that at the time I recognised but never really thought about in detail.
But then two years of sitting there and writing this book, all of these memories come flooding back and I start to be able to piece it all together, like a puzzle.
Bradby: 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: Apparently.
Bradby: Sensitive viewers turn away now. Um...
Harry: It's four lines or something.
Bradby: Right...
Harry: If that.
Bradby: ...Ok. Oh, I'm just scrubbing it from my memory still. But it's OK.
Harry: We can talk about you losing your virginity, if you want?
Bradby: No, that's, that's, let's not do that um, er, let's not go there.
There's a fair amount of drugs, um, marijuana, magic mushrooms, cocaine. I mean, that's gonna surprise people.
Harry: But important to acknowledge.
Bradby voiceover: 'Of course I had being doing cocaine around this time', Harry admits in the book. 'In a country house,' he says, adding that it did not make him in the slightest bit happy. Feeling different, he writes, was the goal. He was a deeply unhappy 17-year-old boy willing to try almost anything to alter the status quo.
Bradby: I mean, I, I think it's an example of the scale of honesty. You don't seem to hold anything back. You tell the story about cocaine through this tabloid editor, you said, came to you and said, I've got a picture of you taking cocaine. I'm gonna...
Harry: Didn't come to me, he came to someone else.
Bradby: Yeah. OK. But we're gonna release it unless you give us a tell-all interview, whatever it was they wanted. And you say, 'I called their bluff,' and you're quite pleased with it. But I just wanna be clear, are you really saying that, third in line to the throne or whatever you were, you taking a class A drug is not a matter of public interest? Cause I think that's a question people will have. Do you accept that is a matter of public interest for the press?
Harry: I think what's a matter of public interest is, is the relationship between the, the institution with the tabloid media. That to me is more public interest in, anything else.
Bradby: OK.
Harry: But my...
Bradby: ...we're gonna...
Harry: ...but my life, my life in itself has been put through, you know, um, uh, a blender as such. So I think the lines have been blurred so much, that public interest is more about the wellbeing of society, yet what interests the public, which is what the media have now turned it into, um, to the point of where they actually generally believe that. So, I, I would be concerned.
Bradby: I wanted to sort of pick up in your childhood, because one of the things that came across very clearly to me is your deep love for your dad and your dad's deep love for you.
Harry: Mm-hmm.
Bradby: I mean, he calls you my darling boy, you reference it pretty frequently. 'I loved him. I needed him'. You know, you talk about being buoyed by his praise. Right? Now, I, maybe this isn't surprising to people. Why should the fact you loved your dad be surprising, but it is very, very clear. Fair...?
Harry: Of course, he's my father. I will always love him...
Bradby: Well, not everyone loves their dad. I mean, you know, some people do, some people don't.
Harry: No, that's true.
Bradby: But it's just very clear. I'm just pointing out that it's a very clear message you seem to want to get across about how much you, you do love him?
Harry: I - I, I exactly. I love my father. I love my brother. I love my family. I all... will always do. Nothing of what I've done in this book or otherwise has ever been to, uh, any intention to harm them or hurt them. Um, you know, the, the truth is something that I need to rely on. Um, and after many, many years of lies being told about me and my, my family, um, there comes a point where, you know, again, going back to the relationship between, um, certain members of the family and the tabloid press, those certain members have decided to get in the bed with the devil, right?
Bradby: Mm-hmm.
Harry: Uh, to rehabilitate the, to rehabilitate their image.
Bradby: Yeah.
Harry: If you need to do that, or you want to do that, you choose to do that. Well that is a choice. That's up to you. But the moment that that rehabilitation comes at the detriment of others, me, other members of my family, then that's where I draw the line. So if that's what you want to do, then you can do that, but do not...
Bradby: And that is your cri... your two criticisms of your dad, really, I would say, summarising, kind of, intimacy and communication problems; he's not there for you, you as frequently or in quite the way you want.
Harry reading excerpt: 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.
Bradby: And at some point, you, you, you say he sort of acknowledges that when you really have got mental health problems.
Harry: Yep.
Harry reading excerpt: 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.
Bradby: And your other criticism is that too often your interests are sacrificed to his interests, certainly when it comes to the press.
Harry: I have a lot of compassion and I, and I, 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.
Um, I wish that it would stop. I want reconciliation, but first there needs to be some accountability. You can't just continue to say to me that I'm delusional and paranoid when all the evidence is stacked up, because I was genuinely terrified about what's gonna happen to me. And then we have a 12-month transition period, and everyone doubles down. My wife shares her experience. And instead of backing off, both the institution and the tabloid media in the UK both doubled-down.
Bradby: I, 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: Scathing?
Bradby: Well...
Harry: What, scathing towards...?
Bradby: Well as in you say that, 'your interests were sacrificed on her PR alter,' 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.
Harry reading excerpt: '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.
Stories began to appear everywhere in all the papers about her private conversation with Willie, stories that contained pinpoint accurate details, none of which had come from Willie, of course. They could only have been leaked by the other one other person present.
Harry: There's no part of any of the things that I've said are scathing towards any member of my family, especially not my stepmother. There are things that have happened that have been incredibly hurtful, um, some in the past, some current.
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, I see a lack of scrutiny to my family towards a lot of the things that have happened in the last year.
Bradby: You say that you, you, you and your brother didn't want her to and your dad to marry, but you say on their wedding day, you were really happy for them. I mean, I, is that a, is that really true that you were?
Harry: 100%? Um, you know, 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. Um, and that's, that's his decision. But the two of them were and remain very happy together. But unfortunately with that came some extra...
Bradby: And are you genuinely at peace with that? Because you...
Harry: That, that the two of them got married?
Bradby: Yeah.
Harry: Yes.
Bradby: Well, the, and that they're happy and that you, because I mean, not peace with them being happy, but lots of people who might be in your circumstances ha-, whose childhood had played out in the way you have, might not be happy about it and you, I'm just saying the, the message of the book seems to be that you are genuinely happy about it?
Harry: Yeah. 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% 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.
Um, but that is, uh, a symptom of one of the problems where we're not just talking about family relationships, we're talking about an antagonist, which is the British press, specifically the tabloids who want to create as much conflict as possible. The saddest part of that is certain members of my family and the people that work for them are complicit in that conflict.
So, 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.
Harry reading excerpt: My God. Sibling rivalry. I put a hand over my eyes. Had we not got past this yet? The whole heir versus spare thing. Wasn't it a bit late in the day for that tired, childhood dynamic? But even if it wasn't, even if Willie insisted on being competitive on turning our brotherhood into some kind of private Olympiad, hadn't he built up an insurmountable lead?
He was married with a baby on the way, while I was eating takeaway alone over the sink. Pa'
