Britain Prepares for Another Installment in the Royal Family Drama

NYT WORLD: Britain Prepares for Another Installment in the Royal Family Drama
By Mark Landler
Section: World
Source: New York Times
Published Date: January 3, 2023 at 02:00AM

With Prince Harry’s new book, “Spare,” set to be released next week, Britain is gearing up for the release of revealing new interviews with the estranged royal.

LONDON — With soaring fuel prices, a sagging economy, disruptive strikes, and lengthy waits in hospital emergency rooms, Britons could use a vivid distraction from what is shaping up as an otherwise dreary new year. And it has come from a reliable source: Harry and Meghan.
This time, it was Prince Harry airing yet more grievances about his brother, Prince William, and the rest of the royal family in teasers for a pair of television interviews to promote the publication of his memoir next week.
In one, with the ITV network, he said, “I would like to get my father back; I would like to have my brother back.” He added, apparently referring to William and King Charles III, “they’ve shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile.”
In the other, with Anderson Cooper on the CBS program “60 Minutes,” Harry accused Buckingham Palace of planting negative stories about him and his wife, Meghan, and then refusing to defend them in the face of scurrilous attacks by London’s tabloids. “There becomes a point when silence is betrayal,” he said.
The interviews will air Sunday evening, two days before Penguin Random House rolls out Harry’s memoir, “Spare,” which royal watchers expect to cast the harshest spotlight yet on the royal rift. Whether the book ends up being the last act in this long-running family drama, however, is far from clear.
There are murmurings that Meghan might write her own tell-all book about her marriage to Harry and her treatment at the hands of his family. The couple has a multimillion-dollar programming deal with Netflix, which last month aired a highly rated, six-part documentary, “Harry & Meghan,” about their acrimonious split from the royal family in 2020 and new life in Southern California.

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