Prince Harry says he wants his father and brother ‘back’ and to be part of ‘family not an institution’ | UK News

Prince Harry said: “I want my father back. I want my brother back,” as the trailer for an upcoming TV interview was released.

Harry also said “I want a family, not an organization” and “they have absolutely no will to reconcile”.

In a series of clips released by ITV, which aired the interview on January 8, the duke said “Things never needed to be this way” and alluded to “leakage and farming”.

He also said “they felt it was better to keep us somehow as villains”.

“I want my father back. I want my brother back.”

ITV will air an interview with Prince Harry next Sunday in which he will speak to journalist Tom Bradby about his personal relationships, the death of his mother, Diana, and look to his future.

The show will be shown two days before Harry’s autobiography Spare is published on January 10.

An interview with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes will also air on January 8.

In a clip from the interview published Monday morning, Harry said “silence is treasonous” about Buckingham Palace’s alleged failure to protect him and his wife Meghan Markle before they stepped down. high-ranking royals.

He said he tried to keep his conversations with the royal family private, but to combat tabloid stories, he was forced to go public with his concerns.

“Every time I tried to do it privately there were briefings, leaks and concoctions of stories against me and my wife.”

“You know, the family motto is never complain, never explain, but that’s just a motto.”

Harry explains how this “brief and leak” process happens: “They’ll feed or talk to reporters.

“And that reporter will literally get informed and write the story. And at the end of the story, they’ll say they’ve reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment. But the whole story is due to the news. Buckingham Palace commented.”

“So when we’ve been told for the past six years, ‘We can’t make a statement in your defense.’ But you do it for other family members. It becomes – at times silence is treacherous.”