Prince Harry, the youngest son of Britain's King Charles III, said he left out many intimate revelations from his autobiography, published this week, that would have further soured his relationship with his father and brother, William.
In an interview with the "Daily Telegraph" newspaper published on Saturday, the Duke of Sussex said the King and his brother, the Prince of Wales,
"would never forgive him" if he had made all the details
of their complex relationship public.
He recognized that many of these intimacies were included in the first draft of the book "Spare" ("Replacement", in English), which
was twice as long as its final version, but that they were left out
so as not to further deteriorate the situation .
.
"The first draft was different.
It had 800 pages and it stayed at 400. It
could have been two books. And the difficult thing was getting things out," he said in the interview.
"There are some things that have happened, especially between me and my brother, and to a certain extent between me and my father, that I just
don't want the world to know
about. Because I don't think they ever forgave me," he added.
He also said that the media "sweep under the rug" many of his family's dirty laundry and exchange them for "
juicy stories about other people."
Harry admits that he is worried about his nephews, George, Charlotte and Louis, because he knows that
one of them will end up being "a spare"
-title of his autobiography- like himself, but that his brother has made it clear that his children are not his responsibility".
At the same time, he once again offered his family a "conditional conversation" so that everyone assumes their responsibilities and, above all, that his wife, Meghan Markle, be "apologised".
What is the book about
Copies of "Spare" exhibited in a store in London (REUTERS / Peter Nicholls)
"Spare" discusses
Harry's grief over his mother's death in 1997
, and his long-standing resentment at his role as the royal "spare", overshadowed by the "heir": his older brother, Prince William.
She recounts arguments and a physical altercation with him, reveals how she lost her virginity (in a field) and tells that she used cocaine and cannabis.
He also says he
killed 25 Taliban fighters while serving as an Apache helicopter pilot in Afghanistan
, a claim criticized by both Taliban and British military veterans.
Harry told ITV that he
only cried once after his mother died
: at her funeral.
He said he felt guilty for not showing emotion when he and William greeted the crowd of mourners outside Kensington Palace, Diana's London home.
In the book, Harry blames his family's ethics for not showing his feelings, saying that he had "learned all too well... the family maxim that crying is not an option."
Harry has defended his decision to publish the memoir, which exposes rifts within Britain's royal family, as
an attempt to "own my story"
after 38 years of "misrepresentations and distortions" by others.
However, the book did not arouse much interest after a leak in The Guardian that generated the first headlines in the British press.
First they generated pity and then total disinterest, causing sellers like Amazon or Waterstone to cut the pre-sale price in half.
In the UK it went from £28 ($34) to £14 (US$17).
With information from EFE
look also
Readers already have Prince Harry's explosive book in their hands
The $14 million home Prince Harry and Meghan Markle may lose to California floods