‘Silence Is Betrayal’: Prince Harry Sits Down With ’60 Minutes’ Ahead Of Memoir Release

Prince Harry He defends himself, going public with the allegations against him royal family His book will be released this month.

The 38-year old British royal family member sat down Anderson Cooper Request an interview “60 Minutes” The episode will air on Sunday January 8. Harry stated that he tried his best to keep conversations and family drama secret, but claimed that he was forced to broadcast the episode to protect himself. 

“Every single time I’ve tried to do it privately there have been briefings and leakings and planting of stories against me and my wife,” Harry told Cooper. “You know, the family motto is never complain, never explain, but it’s just a motto.”

“There’s a lot of complaining and a lot of explaining … being done through leaks,” Cooper replied.

“They will feed or have a conversation with the correspondent,” The Duke of Sussex carried on. “And that correspondent will literally be spoon-fed information and write the story. And at the bottom of it they will say that they’ve reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment.”

“But the whole story is Buckingham Palace commenting. So when we’re being told for the last six years, ‘We can’t put a statement out to protect you.’ But you do it for other members of the family. It becomes — there becomes a point when silence is betrayal,” Harry said.

The former working royal’s highly anticipated memoir, “Spare,” Available January 10, 2010. 

Harry and Meghan Markle, a former actress, claimed they quit their jobs in 2020 as working royals to live a more private lifestyle after being harassed by the British press. They later moved to California, where they signed a contract with Netflix.

The limited series “Harry & Meghan” This was another attempt by them to justify and justify their actions. However, it didn’t work. mixed reviews Fans and critics. 

“So far, this is a well-filmed, comprehensive and deeply tedious wallow in narcissism,” The Spectator published a review of the series. “The kindest thing that you can say is that the couple seem very much in love, although the levels of artifice involved here make such a judgment tricky.”

“What I mainly took away was the sense of a couple so in love with themselves that they had lost any semblance of self-awareness,” A Times reviewer shared the article.

Now royal followers are eager to see what Prince Harry will say in his memoir, which is rumored to be especially brutal toward Harry’s older brother, Prince William. 

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