{"id":181058,"date":"2023-01-08T22:39:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T22:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/prince-harry-speaks-cocaine-use-telling-his-story-on-itv-interview-deadline\/"},"modified":"2023-01-08T22:39:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T22:39:02","slug":"prince-harry-speaks-cocaine-use-telling-his-story-on-itv-interview-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/prince-harry-speaks-cocaine-use-telling-his-story-on-itv-interview-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry Speaks Cocaine Use & Telling His Story On ITV Interview \u2013 Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tIn the first of a number of interviews promoting new memoir spare, <\/em>Prince Harry has said he’s \u201cspent the last six years trying to get through to my family privately\u201d before reaching the point of \u201cfleeing my home country fearing for our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tHarry delivered an extraordinary broadside against the \u201cbriefings, leakings and plantings\u201d to the press that have come from members of his own Royal Family about him and wife Meghan Markle as a reason for his now going public with first Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan <\/em>and now the book plus a set of interviews including three in the US in the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cThe level of planting from other members of the Royal Family means in my mind they have written thousands of books,\u201d he added. \u201cIt got to the point where we had to leave. The distorted narrative is that we wanted to leave to make money but that’s not the case, we would have stayed for a life of service.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tSitting down for the highly-anticipated interview with friend and ITV Correspondent Tom Bradby, Harry interviewed \u201csome members of the Royal Family who have got in bed with the devil\u201d \u2013 the devil being the British tabloid media.<\/p>\n

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\tWhile he said he \u201cunderstands\u201d why they did this, he is after \u201creconciliation\u201d and is therefore telling his story via documentaries and a book. Harry didn’t elaborate on who he was referring to with his \u201cdevil\u201d remarks but they will no doubt have the British commentariat playing guessing games following a deep-dive 90-minute interview that may leave his hopes of \u201creconciliation\u201d a fair few steps further away.<\/p>\n

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\tThe Duke of Sussex, who is now based in LA with his wife, said he had spent almost the whole period of his relationship with the former Suits <\/em>actor \u201cwriting letters, having conversations and writing emails\u201d to other Royal Family members about their difficulties, but was always told: \u201cThis is not what’s happening, you’re imagining it.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\tHe urged his family to \u201cput in a lot of work on themselves\u201d in the same vein as he has, pointing to his recognition of issues with \u201cunconscious bias\u201d that he has tackled over the past few years.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cThe family could learn a hell of a lot from that,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

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\t\u201cUnconscious bias\u201d formed part of a strange section of the interview during which Harry appeared to say the unnamed \u201cracist Royal,\u201d who he and Markle highlighted during their 2021 Oprah interview had questioned their last Archie’s skin color, was in fact not racist but falling foul of unconscious bias.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere was a lot of stereotyping\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\tAlthough they were Suits <\/em>fans, he said brother Prince William and wife Kate Middleton didn’t like Markle almost immediately and \u201cthere was a lot of stereotyping\u201d due to Markle being an \u201cAmerican actress, divorced and biracial.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cThat stereotyping caused a barrier to them letting her in,\u201d he added. \u201cThey were living in the tabloid bubble rather than reality.\u201d Harry is in the process of pursuing three different lawsuits against British media organizations, including one where he accuses the Daily Mail <\/em>owner of hiring investigators to plant listening devices in his house.<\/p>\n

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\tMuch of the interview was spent discussing Harry’s now almost completely broken relationship with William, a lot of which has been teased prior to the launch of spare <\/em>He spoke of the difference in the press coverage of his relationship with Markle compared to William and Middleton and said William told him when he became engaged to Markle: \u201cThis is going to be really hard for you.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\t\u201cI have spent the last six years trying to get through to my family privately,\u201d he added, in response to a question over his somewhat-critcized decision to go public.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cIf it had stopped before the point that I fled my country with my wife and last fearing for our lives then maybe things would have turned out differently.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\tLater touching on his father, now-King Charles III’s marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles, Harry produced another book extract in which he said he had urged the pair not to marry. <\/p>\n

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\tHarry went on to discuss the heart-wrenching death of mother Princess Diana 25 years ago, having read out an extract from the book when his father first told him his mother had died.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cThis is relative for anyone who has experienced loss,\u201d he added, before talking about feeling the \u201cwet hands\u201d of well-wishers in the days after Diana’s death, well-wishers who had been drying away their tears.<\/p>\n

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\tHe said people who watched Harry & Meghan <\/em>will question \u201cwhy would you want your family back\u201d but he \u201cdoes want them back 100%,\u201d adding: \u201cI hope reconciliation between my family and us will have a ripple effect across the entire world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tHe said he is \u201cnow at peace,\u201d which \u201cangers and infuriates\u201d some people and leads to \u201cembarrassment for some people.\u201d \u201cI’ve never been happier,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

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\tRejecting the notion that he has spent too much time telling his story and reflecting on his past, he described the documentaries, book and interviews as \u201ccathartic\u201d and involving \u201ca lot of energy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cThere’s a lot of relief now that they are over,\u201d he said. \u201cI’ve made peace with a lot of this but am still hoping for accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tdramatic week<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\tThe interview came after a week replete with dramatic extracts from the book the being dripfed by the UK media, after the book was accidentally published in Spain several days early, while at the same time, ITV and CBS have regularly released trails for their upcoming interviews .<\/p>\n

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\tThe most dramatic was The Guardian’s <\/em>unveiling of an extraordinary physical attack Harry claims took place at the hands of his brother William in the book, in which William is said to have pushed Harry on to a dogbowl after claiming Markle was \u201cdifficult,\u201d \u201crude\u201d and \u201cabrasive.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tThis extract was also read out in the Bradby interview, with Harry saying he had \u201cseen a red mist in William.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tTherapy sessions that \u201chelped him control that anger and frustration\u201d stopped Harry from fighting back, he said.<\/p>\n

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\tReturning to much-discussed theme, Harry said the fight emerged after untrue narratives emanating from the British tabloid press.<\/p>\n

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\tOther extracts to have emerged in the past few days concerned Harry’s drug use, losing his virginity and killing 25 Taliban while he was serving in Afghanistan. On his drug use, Harry said in the ITV interview the revelation was \u201cimportant to be acknowledged.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tHe will be interviewed at 7 pm EST on CBS’ 60 Minutes <\/em>with Anderson Cooper later today, before appearing on The Late Show <\/em>and Good MorningAmerica <\/em>tomorrow.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n