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Prince Harry says royal family has shown ‘absolutely no willingness to reconcile’ – after HE set terms

January 2, 2023 | | Print Article

The very private and not at all attention-seeking Prince Harry added more grist to the rumor mill in two separate upcoming interviews in which he claimed to want reconciliation with his family: “I would like to get my father back…”

(Video: CBS News)

Weeks after the release of the Netflix documentary “Harry and Meghan,” portraying the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, his wife Meghan Markle, as victims of celebrity, Harry has returned to the spotlight yet again to hawk his upcoming book “Spare.”

Sitting down with both Tom Bradby of ITV and Anderson Cooper for CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” Harry’s interviews slated to air Jan. 8 embodied the woke mindset of “living your own truth” as he alleged the monarchy plays coy with the press while routinely leaking stories. As he explained to Cooper, “The family motto is ‘never complain, never explain,’ but it’s just a motto.”

“They will feed or have a conversation with the correspondent, and that correspondent will literally be spoon-fed information and write the story, and at the bottom of it, they will say they have reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment,” he claimed, “But the whole story is Buckingham Palace commenting.”

The motivation behind his airing such dirty laundry was made apparent in his next statement when he said, “So when we’re being told for the last six years, ‘we can’t put a statement out to protect you,’ but you do it for other members of the family, there becomes a point when silence is betrayal.”

Meanwhile, in a heavily edited preview of his conversation with ITV’s Bradby, Harry appeared to strike a similar tone only to level that it is his family who has “shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile.” This coming after he said, “I want a family, not an institution.”

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“They feel as though it’s better to keep us, somehow, as the villains,” he argued before lamenting, “I would like to get my father back. I would like to have my brother back.”

The clips for the interviews aired little more than a week following King Charles III’s first Christmas address where high praise was afforded to the Prince and Princess of Wales, William and his wife, Kate Middleton, but no mention was made of the Sussexes.

As Charles had said when speaking of public servants contributing to their communities, “Such heartfelt solidarity is the most inspiring expression of loving our neighbor as ourself. The Prince and Princess of Wales recently visited Wales, shining a light on practical examples of this community spirit.”

Though the speech was regarded as a snub to the Duke and Duchess, Charles had made mention of the couple in his initial address upon taking the throne when he had stated his “love for Harry and Meghan, as they continue to build their lives overseas.”

Critics of the couple who announced their departure from the royal family in 2020 to move to America were quick to jump on the prince’s story with disdain.

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