William ‘can’t ever leave the royal system’
THE Duke of Cambridge cannot ever leave the royal ‘system’ and ‘control’ by the tabloid press, Harry claimed in the interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Asked if any family members had said they were sorry that he felt he and Meghan had to move or were unsupported, Harry said ‘sadly not’. The prince said it was ‘our decision, therefore the consequences are on us’.
Harry said he was ‘part of the system with them’ and always has been. He added that he was ‘very aware’ that his brother Prince William ‘can’t leave the system, but I have’. When Miss Winfrey asked if
William wants to leave the system, Harry replied that he did not know and that he could not speak for him.
The prince added: ‘But with that relationship and that control and the fear by the UK tabloids, it’s a really toxic environment.’
In a new excerpt from the interview aired yesterday, when he was asked if Prince Charles also thought it was a toxic environment, Harry replied that he thought their father has ‘had to make peace’ with it.
Asked why the Sussexes could not do the same, Meghan said: ‘Because this was different.’ It was also clear from the interview that Harry hopes for a reconciliation with his older brother after their relationship had become fractured.
Harry said he and William are on ‘different paths’, a repeat of the phrase that he first used in his interview with ITV newscaster Tom Bradby in October 2019.
He added that ‘the relationship is space at the moment’.
Harry also told Miss Winfrey he loved William ‘to bits’ and they’ve ‘been through hell together’. He added: ‘Time heals all things – hopefully.’
THE Duchess of Sussex claimed the media coverage of her and her sister-in-law the Duchess of Cambridge cannot be compared because ‘rude and racist are not the same’.
In an extra clip from her interview, Meghan said the publicity she received was different from other royals because of her race, nationality and the emergence of social media. ‘It was like the wild, wild west. It was spread like wildfire,’ she told Oprah.
She gave the example of Kate Middleton being dubbed ‘Waity Katie’. The nickname emerged after Kate dated Prince William for almost a decade before he proposed.
Reacting to Oprah Winfrey’s question about ‘feeling bullied on an international level’, Meghan said: ‘Kate was called waity Katie, waiting to marry William.
‘While I imagine that was hard, and I do… this is not the same.
‘And if members of this family will comfortably say “we’ve all had to deal with things that are rude”, rude and racist are not the same.’ She added that there was also an increased global interest in her because she is American which ‘translated in a different way across the pond’.
She said the coverage was amplified further by social media which did not have as much as an influence when Kate joined the family.
In the same interview, Prince Harry said racism was a ‘large part’ of why the couple left the UK.