Spare TV interviews: Prince Harry rocks Royal Family with more bombshells

The Duke of Sussex has admitted some home truths in raw TV interviews to promote his memoir Spare, which has rocked the Royal Family.

Prince Harry has accused his stepmother of sacrificing him on her “personal PR altar”, criticised his father’s parenting and revealed Prince William and Catherine never liked his wife Meghan.

Kicking off the publicity tour for his explosive memoir, the Duke of Sussex also revealed it took him a decade to accept Princess Diana was dead, a period in which his brother pretended not to know him at school before he later resorted to psychedelic drug treatment.

In his latest salvo at the royal family, Prince Harry also hit out at their “unconscious bias”, claimed he was left off the plane to see the dying Queen and laid bare his violent confrontation with the Prince of Wales.

Appearing on British and American TV, the Prince said he had no intention of hurting the House of Windsor, although he acknowledged he would never return to a full-time royal role.

In the first US television interview to discuss his upcoming memoir, Spare, Prince Harry sits down with 60 Minutes’ Anderson Cooper to also recount his childhood, the loss of his mother and his rift with the royal family. Picture: CBS via Getty Images

The royals have been rocked by a drip-feed of revelations from Prince Harry’s memoir Spare, which is due to go on sale in Australia on Wednesday.

But the saga was inflamed when he spoke out in raw interviews with British ITV journalist Tom Bradby and America’s Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes.

In his sharpest comments, he said Queen Consort Camilla was “dangerous” in the wake of his mother’s death because she was determined to boost her profile in the press and pave the way for her marriage to the future King.

“She was the villain – she was the third person in the marriage,” Prince Harry said.

“She needed to rehabilitate her image … With her on the way to being Queen Consort, there was going to be people or bodies left in the street.”

Prince Harry was also interviewed by ITV journalist Tom Bradby. Picture: ITV

He also questioned whether King Charles had the “patience” and “time” for parenthood, adding that he was “never made” to be a single parent.

Prince Harry said he and Prince William believed Diana’s death was “all part of a plan”, and they expected she would eventually call them so they could be reunited.

“I just refused to accept that she was gone,” the Duke of Sussex said.

It took him a decade to admit the truth after he looked at photos of the tragic crash for “proof” and traced her final route in Paris, although his doubts made him consider pushing to reopen an inquest into her death.

Prince William with Diana, Princess of Wales and Prince Harry on the day he joined Eton in September 1995. Picture: Anwar Hussein/WireImage

Later, Prince Harry turned to psychedelic drugs with the help of medical professionals, saying they “cleared the windshield” as he struggled to comprehend his grief.

Revelations in Spare about his use of cocaine and marijuana already sparked speculation about whether his US visa could be affected, given rules stating that an individual’s “current and/or past actions, such as drug or criminal activities … may make the applicant ineligible”.

In the interviews, Prince Harry also accused his brother and sister-in-law of “stereotyping” his wife as a “divorced, bi-racial American actress”, although he admitted he was “probably bigoted” before meeting Meghan.

Prince Harry has claimed the ‘fab four’: he and wife Meghan Markle with Prince William and Kate Middleton never got along. They are pictured here together on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on July 10 in 2018. Picture: Getty Images

He said the famous foursome never got along – despite William and Catherine being fans of Meghan’s TV show Suits – as he claimed they never expected him to find “someone like Meghan who had a very successful career”.

“A large part of it for the family, but also the British press and numerous other people, is like: ‘He’s changed, she must be a witch’ … As opposed to yeah, I did change, and I’m really glad I changed,” Prince Harry said.

“Rather than getting drunk, falling out of clubs, taking drugs, I’d now found the love of my life.”

The ‘fab four’ attend Christmas Day church service at Church of St Mary Magdalene on the Sandringham estate in 2018. Picture: Samir Hussein/WireImage

Tensions between the brothers over Ms Markle exploded at the Duke’s Kensington Palace cottage, where they shouted at each other before Prince Harry said Prince William “snapped” and pushed him to the ground.

He said Prince William later apologised and asked him to keep the fight a secret, which Prince Harry intended to do until Ms Markle saw a cut on his back.

At the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral, Prince Harry said his brother invoked their “secret code” by saying he swore on “mummy’s life” that he wanted him to be happy.

“It stopped me cold. I didn’t believe him,” Prince Harry said.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Picture: Getty Images.

The Prince denied saying his family was racist – after Ms Markle told Oprah Winfrey in 2021 that an unnamed relative made “troubling comments” about the skin colour of their son Archie – but suggested they were guilty of “unconscious bias”.

He also accused other relatives of “getting in bed with the devil” by leaking to the press against him and Meghan.

The Duke of Sussex said he had recently lost contact with his brother and father, having been particularly upset that a plane carrying members of the royal family to farewell the Queen at Balmoral left without him.

While Prince Harry said he believed the royal rift could be healed, he argued that “the ball is very much in their court”.

“I would like to get my father back. I would like to have my brother back,” he said.

“At the moment, I don’t recognise them, as much as they probably don’t recognise me.”