Prince Harry will delve this Sunday in two long-awaited interviews into the details regarding his memoir “In the Shadow”following the controversy caused by the revelations that have leaked so far.
Among the leaked details is the accusation that his brother Guillermo – heir to the throne – attacked him during a discussion regarding his wife, the former American actress Meghan Marklean account of how he lost his virginity, a confession regarding drug use and the claim that he killed 25 people while deployed in Afghanistan.
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Until now the details have generated condemnation, ridicule and controversywithout any reaction from the palace.
Several of the channels that interviewed him have already aired excerpts from the interview that focus on the dispute with his brother Guillermo and his accusations that his family installed a negative narrative regarding him and his wife in the media.
The British network ITV will broadcast on Sunday at 21:00 GMT an interview of just over an hour and a half with the prince.
In fragments of the interview broadcast by ITV, Enrique affirms that Guillermo tried to hit him during their argument regarding his wife.
“He wanted me to hit him back, but I preferred not to,” he says.
“I want a reconciliation, but first there needs to be accountability,” he adds.
The program, entitled “Enrique: the Interview”, was recorded before the controversial content of his memoirs became known.
– “An arch nemesis” –
After, the American network CBS will broadcast another interview at 7:30 p.m. US East Coast time (00:30 GMT on Monday) and ABC will broadcast a third program on Monday.
Enrique refers to Guillermo as “his dear brother and arch nemesis,” ABC host Michael Strahan said in an excerpt.
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“Strangely, there’s always been a competition between us”, Enrique told the American chain.
In another fragment of the book, revealed on Saturday by the tabloid The Daily Mail, the prince assures that he was not actually the witness at his brother’s wedding and that this information was a “blatant lie”.
– An impact on the queen’s health –
The leak of the content of “In the Shadow” not only generated outrage in the United Kingdom for criticism of the royal family, but for Enrique’s claim that he killed 25 people, whom he considered “chess pieces”, during his involvement in the war in Afghanistan.
“He has betrayed” the trust of the army “in the same way that he has betrayed his family,” Colonel Tim Collins said indignantly, quoted by The Times newspaper.
Even the Taliban reacted following that revelation and accused the prince of “war crimes”.
Although the royal family did not officially rule on the content of the memoirs, some comments from sources close to Buckingham Palace began to appear in the British media, for example, to deny that Queen Consort Camila leaked the details of her first appearance to the press. meeting with Prince William.
Enrique also explains in his book that together with his brother they asked their father not to marry Camila, following the death of their mother Dianasince they feared that she was a “bad stepmother”.
The Telegraph newspaper also quotes sources close to the Queen isabel IIwho died in September, revealing that the possible publication of the memoirs “affected the queen’s health in her last year.”
According to The Times, citing sources close to Penguin Random House, which spent several million dollars to get the rights to this book, Enrique considered last year canceling the publication of these long-awaited and controversial memoirs.