The British press were surprised on Monday by Harry’s “bizarre” comments on TV, who denied accusing the royal family of racism but believed he had seen “an olive branch” holding his on the eve of the release of the prince’s explosive memoir was stretched out to relatives .
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“I didn’t say the royal family was racist,” headlined The Mirror with a photo of the prince during his interview on British television ITV on Sunday night, which the tabloid describes as “Harry’s new bombshell”.
During an interview on ITV to promote his memoir, Harry denied accusing the royal family of racism when he said on American television in March 2021 that a family member had questioned the skin color that their unborn son considered his Meghan is half-breed. This interview had reignited a lively debate in the UK about racism in the country.
For the tabloid The Sun, these are “quirky” statements that mark “a reversal of previous hate speech”.
The Daily Telegraph and Times want to see an “olive branch” bestowed upon his family.
But according to the press, the damage has already been done with Harry’s memoir The Substitute, due out on Tuesday, but many excerpts of which have already been published after the book accidentally went on sale in Spain. No member of the British royal family seems to be spared.
“Prince Harry has apparently been in therapy for years and the interview made one thing clear: it hasn’t solved his anger issues,” the Daily Telegraph said.
According to the Daily Express, this autobiography “represents a personal catastrophe, the consequences of which will haunt Harry for the rest of his life.” “The book exposed him to the world as a jealous childish man whose verbal incontinence is matched only by his paranoia,” the newspaper said.
For The Sun, Harry’s book and his various interviews represent “a hybrid of public therapy session and personal quest of a man whose last line of defense is attack.”
The Guardian remembers Harry’s grandmother Elizabeth II, who died on September 8 at the age of 96: “If she had lived to see it, it would not have killed the Queen. But that could have made her a Republican,” he quipped.