The royal rumble continues.
Prince Harry believes it’d be “very sad” if he’s unable to reconcile with his father, King Charles, and older brother, Prince William, but considers his family’s relationship strained to the point his new memoir can’t make it any worse, he told “Good Morning America” in an interview airing Monday.
“What people don’t know is the efforts that I’ve gone to, to resolve this privately both with my brother and my father,” Harry told ABC host Michael Strahan.
Harry said he deserves some blame for the fractured bond with his brother, who is next in line to the British throne.
However, he claimed William broke their pact to never let their teams fight with each other, and alleged the British palace fed fake stories to the media and declined to debunk inaccurate reporting about his wife, Meghan Markle.
“There has always been this competition between us, weirdly,” Harry said of his brother. “Again, I think it really plays into — or is played by — the heir/spare, and the British press is part in that.”
Harry believes his late mother, Princess Diana, would be “sad” to see the state of his relationship with William.
“I think she’d be looking at it long-term to know that there were certain things that we need to go through to be able to heal the relationship,” Harry said. “I think she would be heartbroken that it’s ended up where it’s ended up. I think she’d be heartbroken about the fact that William, his office, were part of these stories.”
Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, stepped down from their senior royal duties in 2020 and left the United Kingdom. They’re now raising their son and daughter in Southern California.
Monday’s interview marks the latest explosive comments by Harry as he promotes his new memoir, “Spare,” which arrives Tuesday.
In a “60 Minutes” interview with Anderson Cooper, Harry said he believed until he was 23 that Diana had faked her death. Diana died in a 1997 car crash when Harry was 12.
“The last thing Mummy saw on this Earth was a flash bulb,” Harry told Cooper.
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