Prince Harry, in ’60 Minutes’ interview, says his brother Prince William pushed him to the ground – Deadline
prince harryin a 60 minutes In an interview linked to the publication of his memoirs this week, he described an incident in early 2019 when tensions with Prince William flared to the point that his brother pushed him and cut his back when he fell into a dog bowl on the floor. .
There were already tensions over Harry’s wife, Meghan Markle, who became the target of British tabloids. The confrontation occurred at Harry’s cottage at Kensington Palace.
“It was an accumulation of frustration, I think, on his part,” Harry said. anderson-cooper. “It was at a time when people in his office were telling him certain things. And at the same time, he was consuming a lot of the tabloids, a lot of stories. And he had some problems, which were not based in reality. And I was defending my wife. And he was coming for my wife, she was not there at the time, but through the things that she was saying. he was defending me. And we go from a room to the kitchen. And his frustrations grew and grew and grew. He was yelling at me. I was yelling at him. It wasn’t nice. It wasn’t nice at all. And he snapped. And he pushed me to the ground.
“It was quite an unpleasant experience,” he said.
Harry said he cut his back, though he didn’t notice the injury right away. Prince William apologized but asked her not to tell anyone. But Meghan saw the cut on her back.
“She says, ‘What’s that?’ I was like, ‘Huh what?’ She didn’t really know what she was talking about. I looked in the mirror. I was like, ‘Oh shit.’ Well, because she had never seen it,’” Harry said.
The interview was Harry’s first with an American outlet before the publication of his book, Spare, on Tuesday. ITV conducted an interview with him earlier on Sunday, and he will also appear on Good morning america Y The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
He maintains that Buckingham Palace has been responsible for the leak to British tabloids, comparing the press there to the dragons of game of Thrones.
“This all started with them reporting, on a daily basis, against my wife with lies to the point that my wife and I had to flee our, my country.”
Harry also described being in London last September for a charity event and learning that Queen Elizabeth was seriously ill. But he was not invited on a plane with other family members to visit the queen before she passed away. Instead, he came to Balmoral on his own account. But when he got there, she was already dead.
When she arrived, she said, “I walked into the hallway, and my aunt was there to greet me. And she asked me if she wanted to see it. I thought about it for about five seconds, thinking, ‘Is this a good idea?’ And I was like, ‘You know what? You can… you can do this. You… have to say goodbye. Um, so I went upstairs, took her jacket off, went inside, and spent some time alone with her.”
“I was in his bedroom…. He was very happy for her. Because she was done with life. She had completed her life, and her husband was…was waiting for her. And the two are buried together.”
He told Cooper that he hadn’t spoken to his brother or his father, King Charles, “for a while.” When asked if he could be a full-time member of the royal family again, he said: “I can’t see that happening.”
But he said he is open to a reconciliation. His concern, he said, has been that any conversations will leak to the press.
“The ball is in their court, but, you know, Meghan and I keep saying we’ll openly apologize for anything we’ve done wrong, but every time we ask that question, nobody tells us the details or anything. ,” he said. “There has to be a constructive conversation, one that can happen in private and not leak out.”
At the end of the segment, Cooper said that 60 minutes he approached the palace for comment, but they demanded to see the report before replying “which is something we never do.”
The interview occupied two segments of 60 minutessomething that is usually reserved only for “great achievements”.
In the first segment, Harry described how he tried to deal with the loss of his mother, Princess Diana, in 1997. He was just 12 years old at the time and said that for years, up to the age of 20, it was believed that she might still be alive. In the book, he wrote: “I often said to myself first thing in the morning: ‘Maybe this is the day. Maybe this is the day she’s going to reappear.
“For a long time, I just refused to accept that she was gone… she would never do this to us, but she’s also part of, maybe this is all part of a plan.”
He added: “For a while, and then she called us and we went and joined her.”
He said William also shared “similar thoughts” after the loss of his mother. But the two brothers did not have a close relationship after Diana’s death. According to Cooper, Harry wrote in the book that it was his father who informed him of his mother’s death, telling him that there was an accident and that, “They tried, dear. I’m afraid he didn’t make it.
He wrote in the book: “Dad didn’t hug me. He wasn’t very good at showing emotions under normal circumstances. But his hand fell once more on my knee and he said, ‘he’s going to be fine.’
When he was 20 years old, Harry asked to see the police report on the accident, as well as photos of the scene. He said it was then that he discovered that “the last thing mommy saw on this earth was a flashbulb.”
“The pictures showed the reflection of a group of photographs taking pictures through the window, and the reflection in the window was…it was them,” Harry told Cooper.
“It was obvious to us as children the part of the British press in our mother’s misery and I had a lot of anger inside me that I thankfully never expressed to anyone,” Harry said. “But I resorted to drinking a lot. Because I wanted to numb the feeling, or I wanted to distract myself from how… whatever I was thinking. And I, you know, would also turn to drugs.”
Harry also had critical things to say about Camilla, the queen consort. He told Cooper that he and her brother asked her father not to marry her because they “didn’t think it was necessary.”
“We thought that he was going to cause more harm than good and that if he was now with his person … surely that is enough. Why go that far when you don’t necessarily have to? We wanted him to be happy. And we saw how happy he was with her. So at that point, she was, ‘Okay,’” she said.
But he wrote that Camilla would be “less dangerous if she were happy.” She told Cooper that she was “dangerous” because of the need she felt to rehabilitate her image.
“That made her dangerous because of the connections she was forging within the British press,” Harry said. “And there was an open willingness on both sides to exchange information. And with a family built on the hierarchy, and with her, on her way to being queen consort, there would be people or bodies on the street because of it.”
the full 60 minutes the segment is here.