Harry’s Good Morning America interview LIVE: Royals face more accusations in duke’s sit-down with Michael Strahan
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The royal family is facing yet more accusations from Prince Harry when the Duke of Sussex’s latest interview publicising his memoir Spare airs on Monday.
Harry’s interview with Michael Strahan was scheduled to go out on ABC News’s Good Morning America at midday UK time.
It is the third of four interviews carried out with Harry going out this week to mark the official release his book on Tuesday.
But the most controversial comment appears to have been his denial that he accused the royal family of racism in his Oprah interview.
Harry: ‘I accept that writing a book is feeding the beast’ 13:16 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Asked about critics who say he has sold out his family by penning his memoir Spare, Prince Harry says the only way he could protect his family was to correct mistruths by writing the truth in one place.
“I fully accept that writing a book is feeding the beast anyway,” he added, during his Good Morning America interview.
Duke says he ‘can’t ever get out’ of royal family 13:14 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
The Duke of Sussex has told Good Morning America he “can’t ever get out” of the royal family.
He said there had been no compromise over his half-in half-out hybrid plan to move to Canada but also still serve the Queen during the so-called ‘Megxit’ crisis in 2020.
Interviewer Michael Strahan asked: “There was no compromise with the family?”
Harry replied: “No – which was really sad because I still to this day believe that this was entirely possible.”
Mr Strahan asked: “There are going to be people who say ‘Why don’t they either be in or get out, because if you get out there’s no hypocrisy’.”
Harry said: “I can’t ever get out and I’m incredibly aware of my position.
“I’m incredibly grateful for the life that I’ve had and continue to live.
“But there’s no version of me being ever able to get out of this. I was stunned that my family would allow security to be taken away, especially at the most vulnerable point for us.”
Harry: The media pitched Kate against Meghan 13:12 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Prince Harry has accused the media of having helped drive a rift between him and his brother William, and between their two wives.
“There has always been this competition between us, weirdly,” he told GMA. “Again, I think it really plays into, or is played by the ‘heir, spare’ and the press is a part of that.
“They pitch the Waleses, which Kate and William are now, against the Sussexes, me and my wife,” he added.
“They always pitched us against each other. They pitch Kate and Meghan against each other.”
Asked if he thought this then made the two women “go against each other”, he said yes “without question”.
Harry admits playing a role in breakdown of relationship with Prince William 13:05 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
The Duke of Sussex said he has to take responsibility for his role in the breakdown of the relationship with his brother the Prince of Wales.
Asked on Good Morning America if he thinks he has any responsibility in the breakdown of the relationship, Harry replied: “Without question. Sure.
“But what people don’t know is the efforts that I’ve gone to to resolve this privately, both with my brother and with my father.”
The Duke of Sussex has insisted his grandmother the late Queen was not angry or upset with him about wanting to step down as a senior working royal.
Interviewer Michael Strahan asked him on Good Morning America: “Did she ever express that she was upset at you?”
Harry responds: “For what?”
Strahan replies: “For wanting to change your role.”
Harry says: “No. My grandmother and I had a very good relationship. It was never a surprise to anybody, least of all her.
“She knew what was going on. She knew how hard it was. She never said to me that she was angry. I think she was sad that it got to that point.”
Asked about what his relationship with Camilla is like now, Harry said: “We haven’t spoken for a long time. I love every member of my family, despite the differences, so when I see her we’re perfectly pleasant with each other.
“She’s my stepmother. I don’t look at her as an evil stepmother. I see someone who married into this institution and has done everything that she can to improve her own reputation and her own image for her own sake.”
It comes after The Sun, which has seen a Spanish version of the Duke’s memoir Spare, reported that Harry claims in one extract that he once feared his father’s second wife would become his “wicked stepmother”.
Harry says he has ‘huge amount of compassion’ for Camilla, but ‘draws a line’ 12:51 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Prince Harry says he has a “huge amount of compassion” for Camilla, the Queen Consort, but “draws a line” at her alleged previous behaviour.
The Duke of Sussex reportedly writes in Spare that ahead of his father’s marriage to Camilla, he “had complex feelings about gaining a stepparent, who I thought had recently sacrificed me on her personal PR altar”.
Speaking to GMA’s Michael Strahan in this morning’s interview, he expanded on this as he said: “I have a huge amount of compassion for [Camilla], you know, being the third person within my parents’ marriage.
“She had a reputation or an image to rehabilitate.
“Whatever conversations happened, whatever deals or trading was made right at the beginning, she was led to believe that that would be the best way to do it.
“And I don’t have a problem with any member of my family needing to rehabilitate their image, but if that rehabilitation or that relationship with, in this case, the British tabloids, comes at the cost of my girlfriend or my family — my close family or my larger family — then I draw a line at that.”
Peace with my family is impossible unless the truth comes out, says Harry 12:42 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Prince Harry’s interview with GMA co-anchor Michael Strahan has begun in the US, with the Duek telling that he was prompted to speak out by his desire for “reconciliation”.
“Ultimately I don’t think we can ever have peace with my family unless the truth is out there,” he tells the interviewer.
“If we can get to the point of reconciliation, that will have a ripple effect across the world.
“I genuinely believe that, and that’s kind of what is pushing me. And if that doesn’t happen, then that’s very sad.”
Prince Harry’s popularity drops to all-time low, according to poll 12:20 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
As the Duke of Sussex’s interview with Good Morning America is due to air, his popularity has sunk to a record low, according to a new poll.
Almost two-thirds (64 per cent) of Britons have a negative view of Harry, up from 58 per cent in May, with just a quarter (26 per cent) seeing him in a positive light, according to the YouGov survey.
The results come after a number of claims about the royal family in his upcoming book Spare, due out on Tuesday, have sparked a furore.
Harry‘s net favourability among the British public is at an all-time low of minus 38, with his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, recording minus 42.
His net favourability score among 2019 Labour voters is minus seven, while among 18-24-year-olds, the proportion of positive and negative views of him was equal (41 per cent).
Meghan still has a positive net favourability score of 10 among 18-24-year-olds, but this has dropped from 55 in 2017.
Series of allegations made in CBS interview 12:03 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Following last night’s interview on ITV, a second interview aired on CBS show 60 Minutes on Monday, in which Harry risked deepening his rift with his father by describing Camilla as “the villain” and “dangerous”.
The duke made a series of claims about the Queen Consort, as he told US interviewer Anderson Cooper: “She was the villain, she was a third person in the marriage, she needed to rehabilitate her image.”
For a summary of all the biggest revelations made in the US interview, click here.
Key moments from last night’s interview 11:56 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Prince Harry’s Good Morning America interview with Michael Strahan will come hot on the heels of two other TV interviews he has given in the lead-up to his memoir’s publication.
The first came last night, when the Duke sat down with interviewer Tom Bradby on ITV.
For a full wrap of the key moments, click here.
Prince Harry’s latest US interview due to begin shortly 11:27 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Good morning, and welcome to the Standard’s live blog.
We’ll be bringing you all the latest updates from Prince Harry’s latest interview, which is due to air on US channel ABC’s Good Morning America (GMA) at midday in the UK.
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