Prince Harry says that a distance arose between him and his brother, Prince William, when he walked away from the royal family.
He said the relationship is one of the “spaces at the moment”, but reiterated his love for his brother, saying “time heals everything hopefully.”
“Like I said before, I love William,” he said. “He is my brother. We have been through hell together. We have a shared experience, but we have been on different paths.”
They share the limitations of being members of the royal family, but Prince Harry has admitted that they have treated the experience differently.
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“My father and my brother, they are trapped,” he told the interviewer. “They can not leave. And I have great compassion for it. ”
Much of the conversation on Sunday was about how Harry and Meghan were treated by the rest of the royal family, and both of them felt abandoned when the tabloid press harassed them with gossip and racist stories. about the Duchess.
“There was a way to do that, but for us, for this union and the details around her race, there was an opportunity, many opportunities, for my family to show public support,” he said, referring to to the press coverage of his wife, which often turned into ugly racist undertones.
Privately, he said a family member also made a shocking remark about the skin color of his then unborn son, and how it would affect their place in the family. The Duchess is bisexual.
“I was never going to share that conversation … but when it was uncomfortable, I was shocked,” Harry said.
The alleged lack of support was particularly disappointing from his father, and Harry ‘really’ failed ‘because Prince Charles went through’ something similar ‘during his marriage to the late Princess Diana.
“He knows how pain feels, and Archie is his grandson,” Harry said, “but of course I will always love him. I think there is a lot of hurt that has happened, and I will continue to make it one of my priorities to try to heal the relationship. ‘
Prince William and the rest of the royal family were in turn upset because Prince Harry and his wife were sitting for the highly publicized interview.
William was reportedly a little better than the couple, and he was in contact with the Queen and Prince Charles on the subject.
The Independent reached out to the royal family for comment.