There were so many amazing, heartbreaking and incredible moments in Prince Harry’s 60 Minutes interview. I’m so glad 60 Minutes posted the entire interview on YouTube (you can see below). It starts on a great note, with Anderson Cooper reading the passage from Spare where Harry wrote that William’s baldness was “alarming” and Will’s resemblance to Diana had faded. Like, we started the interview with “William is bald and ugly.”
My overall opinion on Harry and how he came across on 60 Minutes is that he’s being incredibly honest about his own damaged backstory, how grief warped him, his “years of magical thinking” where he believed his mother was still secretly alive into his early adulthood. He went harder on Camilla than I was expecting, but he went easier on William than I was expecting. Harry even admits that he wouldn’t have told Meghan about William’s assault if Meghan hadn’t seen the cuts on his back. Some particular quotes:
On William’ ugliness: “I don’t see it as cutting at all. Um, you know, my brother and I love each other. I love him deeply. There has been a lot of pain between the two of us, especially the last six years. None of anything I’ve written, anything that I’ve included is ever intended to hurt my family. But it does give a full picture of the situation as we were growing up, and also squashes this idea that somehow my wife was the one that destroyed the relationship between these two brothers.
On greeting people at KP after Diana’s death: “I think it’s bizarre, because I see William and me smiling. I remember the guilt that I felt. The fact that the people that we were meeting were showing more emotion than we were showing, maybe more emotion than we even felt. There was a lotta tears. I talk about how wet people’s hands were. And I couldn’t understand it at first. Their hands were wet from wiping their own tears away. I do remember one of the strangest parts to it was taking flowers from people and then placing those flowers with the rest of them. As if I was some sort of middle person for their grief. And that really stood out for me.
Why he wanted to see photos from the Paris crash scene: “Mainly proof. Proof that she was in the car, proof that she was injured and proof that the very paparazzi that chased her into the tunnel were the ones taking photographs of her lying half dead in the back seat of the car. All I saw was the back of my mom’s head, slumped in the back seat. There were other more gruesome photographs. I will be eternally grateful to him [his secretary] for denying me the ability to inflict pain on myself by seeing that. That’s the kind of stuff that sticks in your mind forever.
He visited the tunnel in Paris where his mother died when he was 23: “I wanted to see whether it was possible driving at the speed that Henry Paul was was driving that you could lose control of a car and plow into a pillar killing almost everybody in that car. I need to take this journey. I need to ride the same route. William and I had already been told, the event was like a bicycle chain, if you remove one of those chains the event would not have happened. The paparazzi chasing was part of that. Yet everybody got away with it. William and I considered reopening the inquest because there were so many gaps and so many holes in it, because it didn’t add up, it didn’t make any sense.
Whether he would still like to reopen the investigation into Diana’s death: “Truth be known, no. Do I need any more than I already know? No, I don’t think it would change much.
On not wanting his father to marry Camilla: “She was the villain, she was the third person in the marriage, she needed to rehabilitate her image. We thought that [the marriage] was going to cause more harm than good. If he was now with his person, surely that’s enough. Why go that far when you don’t necessarily need to? We wanted him to be happy and we saw how happy he was with her.
Camilla’s propaganda machine: “The need for her to rehabilitate her image made her dangerous because of the connections that she was forging within the British press. There was open willingness on both sides to trade information. With a family built on hierarchy and with her on the way to being queen consort there was going to be people or bodies left on the street because of that…If you are led to believe as a member of the family that having positive stories written about you is going to improve your reputation or increase your chances of being accepted by the British public, then that’s what you’re going to do.
On his family’s reaction to Meghan: “Right from the beginning before they had a chance to get to know her and the UK press jumped on that. [The mistrust was based on] the fact that she was American, an actress, divorced, Black, biracial with a Black mother. Those are just four of the typical stereotypes that becomes a feeding frenzy for the British press. My family reads the tabloids, it’s laid out at breakfast when everyone comes together. If you have that judgment based on a stereotype right at the beginning it’s very very hard to get over that. A large part of it for the family but also the British press was like “He’s changed, she must be a witch” as opposed to yeah, I did change and I’m really glad I changed because rather than getting drunk, falling out of clubs, taking drugs I’ve now found the love of my life and I have the opportunity to start a family with her.
William assaulting him in 2019: “He was being told certain things by people within his office. At the same time he was consuming a lot of the tabloid press. He had a few issues which were based not on reality. I was defending my wife. He was coming for my wife, she wasn’t there at the time, but through the things that he was saying. I was defending myself. We moved from one room into the kitchen. His frustrations were growing, he was shouting at me, I was shouting back at him. It wasn’t nice, it wasn’t pleasant at all and he snapped and he pushed me to the floor. He knocked me over, I landed on the dog bowl. I cut my back, I didn’t know about it at the time. He apologized after. I wouldn’t have [told Meghan] until she saw my back.”
[From CBS’s transcript & CB’s transcript]
Every part of his statements about Diana were heartbreaking. I didn’t know that he still believed she was alive well into his 20s, that every day he woke up thinking “maybe today will be the day she’ll call.” What’s left unsaid is that his family’s need to clam up and carry on like nothing happened reinforced Harry’s trauma – he wasn’t allowed to process anything in his childhood, so he would drink and take drugs and fall out of clubs. As for Camilla… “With a family built on hierarchy and with her on the way to being queen consort there was going to be people or bodies left on the street because of that.” Yiiiikes.
A few more things – Harry talked about the Jeremy Clarkson mess in both his 60 Minutes interview and his ITV interview. In 60 Minutes, he was like “thank you for proving our point” about how the misogynistic and racist British media treated Meghan. Cooper also asked Harry about “”renouncing” his titles and Harry’s cold line delivery of “And what difference would that make” was brilliant. He’s right – it would make no difference.
And finally, the Palace “demanding” a copy of the 60 Minutes interview – what an utter clownshow. It just shows how the Windsors think nothing of their open collusion with the media, to the point where they think they have the right to “demand” advanced copies of interviews or Netflix series. As utter clownshow.
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I knew the “it makes no difference” comment would be the soundbite the UK press would gnaw on today. As if he hadn’t already said he tried to give them back but was denied.
Truly what would be the point? Would giving them back everybody love H&M? No. Would the haters back off, even a little? No.
If anything it would make matters worse. The haters would think, “Look what we did! We bullied them into giving in. Great! … Now what else can we make them do?”
I don’t think Charles will do it either. Because it really is the last trump card he holds. It gives him the illusion of power. Once that’s gone he’d have nothing to hold over their heads and the public would know how pointless and ineffectual the monarchy is.
Charles won’t have their titles removed simply because it would cause a cascade of demands from the taxpayers for other/all titles/perks to be removed. He doesn’t care about Harry or Harry’s children but he does care about his titled friends and powerful titled people. He ain’t gonna rock that boat.
The BM likes to gloss over that in their articles about whether or not the titles for HM will be removed.
It’s all about the tabloids and some in the public moving the goalposts. Remember how they wanted Harry and Meghan to pay back the renovations for Frogmore? Once they did, they moved on to titles…
Harry did not go into how Charles hired b b o l l a n d to work with camilla and his using his sons in the Camilla campaign or the surge of Diana slamming by Ingrid penny etc. Camilla had Charles cooperation for the campaign.
Camilla also personally cultivated relationships with the press which got her positive stories.
IT was revealed some time ago (by Sally Bedell Smith and other writers) that Camilla would phone Stuart Higgins , Sun Editor every week during the wales marriage ( c and d). It is out there that she did.
The wickedness of the British media and the royal family is shameful. They so desperately need each other that they have no where to go. I hope they eventually eat each other up and destroy everything that they created.
I wonder if he went hard on Cowmilla bc there’s more dirt about her hand in trying to wreck the wedding/ThomasMarkle? Just a thought.
To me it sounds like he’s saying Camilla was the chief architect in the family of the press leaking (outside of their staffs). Which jives completely with what we know. William’s too unhinged and too much of a rageaholic to engineer it. Charles is too much of a sniveling simp without a spine. It has Camilla and her press cronies (Clarkson one of them) written all over it.
Honestly, there is SO much to unpack from that interview, I’m not sure where to start. It breaks my heart that he was holding onto hope that Diana was still alive for a decade. That is some DEEP denial. And, unfortunately, I think he’s still in denial mode, thinking that telling his truth will bring about a transformation and reconciliation with the royals.
Sweetie, I just don’t see it happening. I know Harry himself has made great, life altering changes that improved his life for the better, but he’s just ONE person, and that’s complicated enough. He’s trying to unravel and rebuild a thousand year old INSTITUTION. An institution that 90% of his family is SO deeply entrenched in, that they can’t delineate themselves from it.
I agree with you about Diana. That part was so sad to me….because my god, can you imagine this boy, growing into a man, and still not understanding/accepting that his mother is dead, and hoping that every day she’s going to pop up and be like “just joking! Wasn’t that fun! Here I am!” Then when you finally acknowledge that she IS dead its a whole different level of grief. It sounds like deep denial or his best coping mechanism (because if she’s not dead then he does not have to grieve her) but lordy, how sad for him and the family should have had both those boys in intense therapy for YEARS and they failed them.
I do wonder if some of that is strategy!
If he went into this saying I’m done with my family..it’s over this whole institution is irredeemable..would that be digestible to the public! I saw a lot of sympathy and support from the American side especially for his interview so I think it was the right strategy.
Also as a diplomat this is the way to go. Make it clear you have tried everything and the door is open even if behind the scenes you know nothing will change?!?
It will ultimately benefit his future business endeavors to approach it this way than hitting the nuclear button.
I also do think a part of them wants something similar to what Albie Sachs said in live to lead…restorative justice…
Harry mentioned how his family coming together, healing..could be a great example to the world..
Harry lived in the denial phase of grief for eleven years. That’s…not healthy. That messes with your psyche. And he was likely emotionally stunted for all that time and then some. Often emotional maturation stops for people when a traumatic event occurs. It sounds like it took another decade after that for him to start growing again, but it required active mental health work to do so.
My mum was 12 when her father died and my grandma tried to protect her by not letting her go to the funeral (1960). She once told me that she secretly thought he was alive until her 20s. She never saw the body so I get where harry is coming from
I lost a brother to cancer when he was 2 and I was 8 (and my parents’ marriage broke up at the same time). My mother thought a funeral with a casket was “too brutal” so she just had a memorial service, and we weren’t allowed to go to the burial. Part of me thought for DECADES that he wasn’t dead, that a red-headed toddler somehow escaped from the hospital and was living his best life in Tahiti or something. It’s not rational (because you’re a child).
And yeah, the boomerang sorrow is really something.
It was a really good interview, I want to watch the whole thing on youtube at some point today.
I thought the comments about Camilla were very interesting because he was coming at it from a PR perspective. It’s not that different than what we saw over the past few years with W&K and H&M. The tabloid press has to write about something, there has to be someone bad in the royal that they can use as their “meat,” and once Camilla started seriously playing the long game (with Charles’ approval obviously), it meant that there had to be someone to exchange. If the press wasn’t going to write negative stories about Camilla, they had to have someone else. And it seems that camilla gave them both Harry and William, and the palace then protected William. (Harry isn’t saying that last part out loud, but it seemed to be very much implied.)
Perfect summary!
You can watch the whole thing on ITV with VPN or Virgin Media if you have an account.
oh I can watch 60 minutes with no issues, saw it last night but want to rewatch.
iTV is the problem, I don’t know how the whole VPN thing works I have to figure that out lol.
The Opera browser is free to download and has a VPN mode. Very good for when you just want to see geoblocked content. Can get you around YouTube country blocking as well.
And then Meghan came along and she was the sacrificial lamb. Camilla made no secret of her disdain of her.
Would also suggest people try and catch the ABC special at 8:30 tonight. Assume Kaiser will cover this and don’t want to thread jack, but there was some surprising stuff in the interview with Strahan this morning, which was a little different from the interview with AC, and what I’ve read was in the Bradby piece. Really can’t wait until tomorrow to read Spare for myself.
windyriver, you can stream it on hulu. I checked, but I don’t see another way of seeing it.
My heart breaks for Harry thinking that his Mum was in hiding.
I can sort of relate to this as I lost my younger brother at the age of 27 and for years afterwards there was a part of me that hoped he was alive. Even though I had seen him after he had passed away and I was the person who identified his body there was still some part of me that hoped he was still alive somewhere too.
I think it may be a part of the mind trying to protect you from the overwhelming grief.
I feel for Harry and I really hope that he finds peace with his gorgeous family.
There’s a lot to unpack here, but the fact that the family has all these tabloids laid out each morning for consumption?
Y’all need to take a step back from the media. It’s warping your perception of reality.
Yes, Piers Morgan and Richard Kay have become their gods!
That struck me too. The family reads all this trash every day, and yet make a point to say how they aren’t watching the documentary and aren’t going to read Harry’s book. They really are wedded to their dysfunction.
I was watching this with my conservative republican dad who now leans towards finding Harry annoying bc he prob heard it on talk radio or something. But he’s keeping an open mind bc of me and that was the part that struck him. He was shocked that the RF family actually sits around and reads the tabloids every morning. He thought that was crazy. Now, in that moment, I chose not to remind him that the Sun is owned by the same person that also does his favorite paper that he reads every morning, the WSJ.
There was a photo of the Wales disembarking from a helicopter and someone spied one of the tabloids in the door pocket. They consume that news morning, noon and night.
TBH I think it’s like living in a nice hotel where the breakfast restaurant has a selection of newspapers available for you to read with your coffee. It’s not just the tabloids, the Times and whatnot are there too. In the case of the BRF, I figure the tabs are included not so much because of the “contract” or the family’s obsession with their coverage (although that’s got to be part of it) but because they’re, um, not overly bright and tab-level coverage is their preferred reading material. They’re like your dotty aunt who gets Us Weekly in the mail and thinks it’s “news.”
Lionel, I laughed, but I think you’re right. Tabloids are probably preferred by them for the reason you stated. Wow, how do create a divide between family and media with that on the table? I think they enjoy reading all of the positive things that are written about them, too.
Having lost a parent young (my father; I was barely 6 years old), I completely get his magical thinking that she’s not really dead. I bet a lot of people who have lost a parent as a child go through this. You want to believe – as you get older – that maybe they’ll come walking through your door one day. I was too young to process my grief so later in life, I really believed maybe he was alive. Harry wasn’t allowed /was not given the tools to process his mothers death so it makes sense to me that he would think this. I felt his pain acutely when he was talking about this. It’s so sad and hard because you so want it to be true and that they’re going to show up someday.
One thing that’s true – not processing your grief will eventually catch up with you. I’ve had to work through mine as an adult. Harry has too.
I’m so sorry, Heather.
I was really moved by this part of the interview. Poor Harry.
Really loved this interview. For some reason I had built it up in my head that he would come off angry but he was completely calm, measured and articulate.
One consistent thing in all his interviews is him repeating that the family is leaking and planting stories against him and Meghan. I think people are finally starting to understand how this works by him saying it over and over.
By Harry telling his story so openly I do think Harry will gain a lot of fans but he’ll also lose some who were using H&M to further their own agenda on abolishing the monarchy, or that are uncomfortable with his openness, etc.
Even so he still continues to speak despite the personal cost which is amazing. Years down the line Harry will get his props for speaking out and I think he knows that. It’s not about now..it’s about the future and history will look kindly on him.
Part of me thinks that harry still as some compassion for his brother because
1 that’s his brother
2 william was also sold to the press in favor of camilla and charles. Not as bad as harry was but it still happened.
Either way, it’s obvious that harry as really grown a lot
And that william is a deeply troubled man. And kate isn’t helping things.
I think we knew or surmised most if what was aired last night on the 60 minutes interview except for the heartbreaking bit about thinking that his mother wasn’t really dead. It just killed me.
Definitely watching the whole interview later!
If we take the Netflix docuseries and the book as package, Harry had already talked about William briefing against him in the docuseries so I understand why he didn’t talk extensively about him in the interviews. I enjoyed this interview more than the ITV one.
I sure hope Camilla has a large supply of burn ointment because Harry lit her ass on fire in that interview.
He barely touched Kate, though. Maybe he felt she wasn’t worth mentioning.
Other than her cold shouldering Meghan, he did used to be pretty friendly with her back in the day.
Also I think Kate is a follower, not a leader in the hate brigade. She’s not the big factor a lot of people think she is.
Jennifer, Wails needs to quit mean girling Meghan in public EVERY chance she gets. When that happens, I’ll be more apt to agree with you.
I was shocked to learn that the royal family has the British tabloids spread out on the table when they come down to breakfast.
I watched a documentary about Sarah Fergusen some years back, and in the documentary, she says that she came downstairs to breakfast at one of the palaces, and the tabloids with her topless pictures were on the table. One of the reasons why Philip hated her so much. The family dysfunction goes back a long, long way.
I wonder if William and Kate feel confident that their “agreement” with the tabloids will hold–that they will continue to get good press if they offer up stories on Harry. That’s certainly part of the Harry panic. The Harry/Meghan fount will dry up and what then? Will they come downstairs one day to see themselves plastered on headlines? Clearly, Charles and Camilla have their own tabloid man now to give them heads up. Do the Wales and the king turn on each other? Do they choose a new scapegoat? Because there will be no news on Harry and Meghan. Once this press cycle for the book ends, what then?
What a miserable world they have built for themselves. Billions of dollars, and yet they must dance on the puppet strings of the gutter press.
Oh how I would love that to happen, but it won’t. The Royals and the British media can’t exist without each other. The media need them for stories to print every day and clickbate pages for the net. The Royals need them to continue being painted as some omnipotent beings that can do no wrong, or the whole wrotten lot of them will come tumbling down. Itv put out a statement today saying Harry had no sight of the questions that Tom would ask him, nor was he paid for it, but the media only printed that in small print at the bottom of the page so that people could claim and rant otherwise. For all this rubbish about harry in his fancy dress that they keep dragging up, he was a young man who made a mistake aided and abetted by William and Kate, but I notice the papers AGAIN fail to mention, that in 2015 they printed a picture of the Queen mother and the king, teaching Elizabeth and Princess Margaret as children, HOW TO DO A NAZI SALUTE!! It’s still there to see on the Internet. Just goes to prove how desperate the press are to paint Harry and Megan as demons
It makes the “Kate made Meghan cry” stories so much worse, knowing that the whole family consumed the stories for breakfast, knowing they were all lies, and saying nothing to correct the stories.
I said above that I think the tabs on the table thing isn’t necessarily insidious, more like a nice hotel having a selection of reading material available at breakfast. BUT … in light of Lanne’s post above I will amend that to say that we all know the courtiers would have directed the servants to hide something unseemly about the Queen or Philip. “Sorry ma’am, the regular papers didn’t come today, here’s the Financial Times, or take a look at the racing results …” Just as we know the same courtiers gleefully directed the tawdry pictures of Sarah Ferguson to be laid out in full view of the family that morning.
That’s a very depressing way to start the morning. You’d think they’d want to avoid that or just have the info fed to them instead of directly reading this shit every day with their tea.
I said under another post that this interview opened my eyes to how Harry sees the British media as the main problem, not his family. The rags absolutely are a big problem, but his family is highly disfunctional without any help from the media. The way they let him just continue to be traumatized by his mother’s death without so much as a hug was heart wrenching. Harry continues to proclaim his undying love for them despite everything they have put him through. Unless they change drastically and suddenly (not going to happen!), at some point he’s going to have to stop caring about them and, yes, stop loving them. They may be his family, but they are not his friends.
I get what he’s trying to say — that he still loves his family despite their treachery. My mother and sister suffered from BPD/NPD, and at times made my life hell growing up and into adulthood, but I still cried my eyes out when they died. My feelings of love and anger were inextricably intertwined and I think that’s what Harry is feeling. At certain points I didn’t speak to either of them for many months but felt sad and frustrated about it. My sister died in 1989, my mother in 2014, and not a day goes by without thinking about them and the good stuff that also happened.
That’s the thing about family trauma, sometimes, even after you cut them out of your life, you still love your abusive family members. It’s very common. I don’t think he has to stop loving them, that’s not the problem, but he probably needs to stop contact permanently.
I’m so glad he got therapy. My mother didn’t die suddenly or violently, but I was only 13 when she died from cancer and I’d watched her progressively weaken after several surgeries, chemo, etc. I’m in my 40s now and despite therapy, I STILL have a couple of recurring nightmares – the worst of which is that she’s been alive all this time and that she just “disappeared” because she didn’t want to be with our family, and that my dad knew all the time. My parents were both awesome and loving but younger brains can still experience that sh!t as abandonment and make up subconscious rationalizations for something that doesn’t seem “fair.” And Harry was SO young… I’m not surprised at all.
Therapy has helped but those dreams still have me waking up bawling.
Diana was murdered. That is one of the conspiracies I fully believe in.
Is the conversation about his mothers death and Camilla’s “bodies on the street” connected?
I was struck by that, too, Hannah.
Even if Harry wasn’t consciously making that point, the point was made. I mean, he called Camilla dangerous, too.
the official investigation into Diana’s death DIDN’T add up!
as I have been saying since 1997. it’s very gratifying to see people starting to realize this. perhaps there’s gold inside my tinfoil tiara. it doesn’t add up.
also, apparently there are photographs of the car wreck showing paparazzi reflected in the windows. (because of course there are). I wonder if any of them can be identified.
I think the biggest impacts that will come from this are exposure of the invisible contract, and exposure of the absolutely sinister behavior of yanking security. I don’t believe Diana gave up her security willingly.
I also don’t believe the leaks about Harry’s location in Afghanistan or Canada were accidental.
and then there is the nursery fire…
if throwing people in the tower was still a thing, Harry and Meghan would both be there.
16 hours until midnight!
I LOL’d about the fact that the palace actually asked to see the “60 Minutes” interview before it aired. The presumptuousness! In the United States, the government is prohibited by the First Amendment from exercising prior restraint — that is, suppressing material it believes may harm its reputation.
Britain desperately needs a written constitution. Because this really revealed the extent to which the monarchy is able to control the British media. No respected American news organization would do what the palace demanded that CNN do.
Quite Contrary, in the GBA interview, Michael Strahan stated that when KP and BP were asked for comment, KP had no comment and the Lawyers for KFC responded asked for a copy to view before comments. Michael Strahan’s statement was very much with Anderson’s with the “we don’t do that”.
I wonder if they’ll be asking for a copy from Stephen Colbert????? That answer would be hilarious. Has anyone else seen the teaser for that? It’s really funny and likely will have the royal family sucking lemons.
I love Colbert. I can’t wait for his interview. And the palace is really a clown show.
It’s laughable and deluded that they thought they could demand things from an American news outlet and they thought they would just hop on it. They don’t appear to realize that they’re nothing here. No one has to give in to them or bow to them. They’re so sad.
Harry showed up to avenge Diana’s life and death, and I am here for it. Loving all the ‘tell Charles it was me memes’.
I would hope Diana is having a good laugh from the afterlife. “That’s my boy!! Did you really think my soul would go quietly,Camilla? I have waited DECADES!!!”
Yass! 💯👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
So I finished reading the book. I want to go back and re-read some parts of it in more detail, but I did finish reading the book this morning. So I have some thoughts.
The part about Harry believing that Diana was still alive–the way I understood it was that this was a reaction motivated by grief and the shock of such an immense loss. The brain works in strange ways when it comes to coping with trauma, and this was a massive trauma that Harry suffered, so early on in his life. I understood this less as, he really thought his mother was alive and in hiding, and more as, he couldn’t wrap his mind fully around the fact that she was really, actually, gone, forever.
The stuff with his brother–Baldy didn’t come off nearly as bad as I thought he would in all of this. It’s very clear to me that Harry, regardless of what is going on between him and his brother, still loves and cares for his brother a lot. And I think Baldy, for all his sins, loves Harry as well. But that doesn’t mean William hasn’t behaved poorly towards Harry. You can love someone and still hurt them immensely through your actions. You can love someone and still struggle with your own selfishness. You can love someone and still be jealous of them and what you perceive that they have that you don’t.
The most relatable parts of the book, for me, are the parts where Harry goes into detail about some of the petty sh-t that him and William would fight about. I read some of those parts aloud to my sister, and she and I shared a good laugh about those instances, bc it’s just…sibling sh-t. Yes, as grown adults, William should definitely not be acting like that and throwing tantrums about Harry working on the same causes that William wants to work on and whatnot. But it’s hardly surprising to me that William doesn’t have the requisite maturity of a grown adult when it comes to certain things. It just makes him a human being.