Prince Harry claims he had no intention of damaging the British royal family with his autobiography, but reconciliation now seems impossible after he painted a critical picture of his relatives and settled decades-old scores.
"I would like to get my father back. I would like to have my brother back," he said in an interview with UK channel ITV prior to Tuesday'sBut no one, including Harry, has been spared in the drama surrounding the book's release.
Charles is due to be crowned on May 6, but "I can't really see how" a family reconciliation is possible, Pauline Maclaran, a professor at London's Royal Holloway University and author of a book on the monarchy, told AFP. Harry recounts how his father did not embrace him as he broke the news of the death of his mother Diana, when the prince was just 12 years old, instead leaving him alone in his room.But most of his vengeance is saved for his "beloved brother, my arch-nemesis" William.
Harry also describes a life-long rivalry between William "the heir" and himself, "the spare", laying bare the brutal reality of royal hierarchy. The prince said he learned of the death of his grandmother Elizabeth II in September on the BBC website, and that he traveled alone to Scotland to be by her side as he had not been told that his relatives had gone by private plane.Harry admitted he had not spoken to his brother and father "for quite a while", and ruled out returning to work for the royal family."The divide couldn't be greater before this book," he has said.
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