Prince Harry.Photo: Karwai Tang/WireImage
Buckingham Palace has not issued any statements regardingPrince Harry’s book or television interviews, but both60 MinutesandGood Morning Americashared the palace’s response to their request for comment.
On Sunday, Anderson Cooper’s interview with the Duke of Sussex aired. At the end of the segment, the CNN anchorsaid, “We reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment. Its representatives demanded before considering responding,60 Minutesprovided them with our report prior to airing it tonight, which is something we never do.”
Michael Strahanshared a similar statementon Monday when his interview withPrince Harryaired onGood Morning America. “We received a response from the law firm representing Buckingham Palace this morning, while we were on the air, saying that the palace needed to ‘consider exactly what is said in the interview, in the context in which it appears’ and asked that we supply them immediately with a copy of the entire interview, which we do not do as a news organization, as a matter of our policy,” Strahan said.
Both interviews were aired before the official release of Prince Harry’s memoir,Spare, on Tuesday.
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“One of the criticisms that you’ve received is that okay, fine, you wanna move to California, you wanna step back from the institutional role. Why be so public? Why reveal conversations you’ve had with your father or with your brother? You say you tried to do this privately,” Cooper askedPrince Harry, 38, in the interview.
“And 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. You know, the family motto is ‘never complain, never explain,’ " Harry said of the adage. “But it’s just a motto. And it doesn’t really hold.”
Prince William, Prince Charles and Prince Harry.Samir Hussein/WireImage
The royal family also did not release an official statement in the wake ofPrince HarryandMeghan Markle’sNetflix series, which premiered last month.
At the start ofHarry & Meghan, a title card states, “Members of the Royal Family declined to comment on the content within the series.” A Netflix source alsotold PEOPLEthat communications offices for King Charles andPrince Williamwere contacted in advance and given the right to reply to claims within the series.
However,a source told PEOPLEthat neither members of the family nor Buckingham Palace orPrince William’s office at Kensington Palace were approached for comment on the content of the series. A royal source added that Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace did receive an email claiming to be from a third-party production company through an unknown organization’s email address. When they contacted Archewell and Netflix to verify the source, they received no response. The royal source also says the substance of the email did not address the entire series.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.Dia Dipasupil/Getty
The palace did release arare statementon behalf ofQueen ElizabethfollowingPrince Harryand Meghan’s 2021 interview withOprah Winfrey.
source: people.com
