Prince Harry: ‘I would like to get my father back’

Prince Harry has said he wants to be reconciled with the King and Prince of Wales. But two explosive new TV interviews may scupper that plan.

Prince Harry has said “I would like to get my father back” in an explosive tell-all interview.

The Duke of Sussex also accuses his family of having “shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile” with him.

Harry trashes his family in trailers for new interviews with UK network ITV and US network CBS set to air on Sunday.

Both were shared on Twitter this morning but the full interviews will be aired just days before the duke’s “explosive” new book Spare is published.

Harry tells ITV’s Tom Bradby: “It never needed to be this way. The leaking, the planting, I want a family – not an institution”.

“They feel as though it’s better to keep us, somehow, as the villains. They’ve shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile.

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

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Prince Harry during his ITV interview

But The Sun revealed last night that his book will take the war with his brother to a new level by telling all about their conflict.

The full 90-minute interview, filmed in California, will air on Sunday – two days before Spare is released.

Harry also attacks his family for an hour in the interview with CBS News.

Prince Harry tells host journalist Anderson Cooper: “Every single time I have 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. It doesn’t really hold. There’s endless [complaining and explaining] through leaks.

“They will feed or have a conversation with the correspondent and that correspondent will be spoon fed information and write the story.

“Then at the bottom of it they will say that they have reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment.

“But the whole story is Buckingham Palace commenting.

“So when we are being told for the last six years we can’t put a statement out to protect you, but you do it for the rest of the family, there becomes a point when silence is betrayal.”

The cover of Prince Harry's upcoming memoir, Spare. Picture: Penguin Random House

ITV News chief Ian Rumsey claimed the chat will include “many elements we’ve never heard before”.

And a trailer for his CBS interview labelled it as “revealing” and “explosive”.

Harry, 38, has done a series of publicity-boosting media interviews since he quit the Royal Family.

And he had been in talks with several major US networks about further TV talks, it was reported.

Prince Louis of Wales (L), Prince George of Wales (C) and Prince William, Prince of Wales (rear R) walk behind King Charles III (front R) as they arrive for the Royal Family's traditional Christmas Day service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, Norfolk, eastern England. (Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP)

Last year he and wife Meghan Markle sat down with chat show host Oprah Winfrey.

Just a month later Prince Harry spoke on NBC, when he claimed he wanted to ensure the “right people” were around the Queen to “protect” her.

And last month his Netflix documentary aired. He claimed brother William screamed at him during Megxit talks as the now-King lied.

This story appeared in The Sun and is reproduced with permission.

Originally published as Prince Harry: ‘I would like to get my father back’