It seems that the Oprah interview in 2021 and that six-part Netflix docu-series in 2022 were not enough to get across Harry’s side of the story. So now we have two primetime interviews to look forward to this weekend – one with ITV’s Tom Bradby in the UK and another with CNN’s Anderson Cooper in the US. Both are to be aired ahead of the release of Harry’s supposedly tell-all, 416-page memoir, Spare.
Harry’s latest publicity round is a reminder that he is just as prone to oversharing, sulking and self-victimisation as his famously self-obsessed other half. And, arguably, he does not get enough stick for it.
For now, all we have to go on are two teaser trailers. But for all the dramatic quotes the trailers have supplied the front pages, these new interviews seem to promise more of the same. There are more accusations against the royal family for their alleged abandonment of the Sussexes, leaving them to fend for themselves against a ‘hostile’ media. ‘There comes a point where silence is betrayal’, Harry tells Cooper. There are more accusations against the press for making the Sussexes out to be the ‘villains’. And there is another plea from Harry for reconciliation with Prince William and King Charles: ‘I want a family, not an institution.’
From these two brief snippets alone, we can see that Harry doesn’t need Meghan by his side to be insufferable.
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