LONDON: Prince Harry omitted revelations about his family from his memoir, saying he didn’t want “the world to know because I don’t think they would ever forgive me”, according to an interview published Friday by the Daily Telegraph.
The prince told the British newspaper he had enough material to write another book, mainly focusing on his relationship with his brother Prince William and his father King Charles III, in comments that could further upset the royal family.
“The first draft was different. It was 800 pages, and now there are only 400 left,” he said of his book “Spare.”
“It could have been two books, to put it that way. And the hardest part was getting things out.
“There are things that have happened, especially between me and my brother, and to some extent between me and my father, that I just don’t want the world to know. Because I don’t think they would forgive me one day,” he added.
The rogue prince said the media has ‘a ton of dirt on my family’ but is ‘sweeping it under the rug for juicy stories about someone else’.
After months of anticipation and a blitz, Harry’s book ‘Spare’ went on sale on Tuesday as royal insiders hit back at his steamy revelations.
The Royal Family maintained a studied silence as the painful details of the book and a series of pre-publication TV interviews piled up.
In ‘Spare’, Harry portrays his father, 74, as emotionally crippled, the victim of brutal bullying as a child.
But among the many contradictions in the book, Harry also characterizes the King as a passionate father, who favors a strong French aftershave and drives handstands in his underwear to relieve polo-induced back pain.
In his Telegraph interview, Harry said he was airing his grievances in public not to ‘bring down’ the royal family but because he had a ‘responsibility’ to reform it in order to protect Prince William’s children.
William, he said, “made it very clear to me that his children are not my responsibility”.
The book comes on the back of the six-hour Netflix docuseries “Harry & Megane“.
A YouGov poll on Monday found that 64% of Britons now have a negative opinion of the once-popular prince – his lowest rating ever – and Meghan also scores dismal.
They could also strain public interest in Meghan’s homeland, according to the New York Times.
“Even in the United States, which has a soft spot for the royal family in exile and a generally higher tolerance than Britain for redemptive stories of overcoming trauma and family dysfunction, there is a sense that there is no There are only so many revelations the public can bear,” wrote his former London correspondent Sarah Lyall.
The prince told the British newspaper he had enough material to write another book, mainly focusing on his relationship with his brother Prince William and his father King Charles III, in comments that could further upset the royal family.
“The first draft was different. It was 800 pages, and now there are only 400 left,” he said of his book “Spare.”
“It could have been two books, to put it that way. And the hardest part was getting things out.
“There are things that have happened, especially between me and my brother, and to some extent between me and my father, that I just don’t want the world to know. Because I don’t think they would forgive me one day,” he added.
The rogue prince said the media has ‘a ton of dirt on my family’ but is ‘sweeping it under the rug for juicy stories about someone else’.
After months of anticipation and a blitz, Harry’s book ‘Spare’ went on sale on Tuesday as royal insiders hit back at his steamy revelations.
The Royal Family maintained a studied silence as the painful details of the book and a series of pre-publication TV interviews piled up.
In ‘Spare’, Harry portrays his father, 74, as emotionally crippled, the victim of brutal bullying as a child.
But among the many contradictions in the book, Harry also characterizes the King as a passionate father, who favors a strong French aftershave and drives handstands in his underwear to relieve polo-induced back pain.
In his Telegraph interview, Harry said he was airing his grievances in public not to ‘bring down’ the royal family but because he had a ‘responsibility’ to reform it in order to protect Prince William’s children.
William, he said, “made it very clear to me that his children are not my responsibility”.
The book comes on the back of the six-hour Netflix docuseries “Harry & Megane“.
A YouGov poll on Monday found that 64% of Britons now have a negative opinion of the once-popular prince – his lowest rating ever – and Meghan also scores dismal.
They could also strain public interest in Meghan’s homeland, according to the New York Times.
“Even in the United States, which has a soft spot for the royal family in exile and a generally higher tolerance than Britain for redemptive stories of overcoming trauma and family dysfunction, there is a sense that there is no There are only so many revelations the public can bear,” wrote his former London correspondent Sarah Lyall.
