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Prince Harry said during his interview with Oprah Winfrey on Sunday that he only spoke with his father Prince Charles twice about his eventual decision to step back from the royal family “before he stopped taking my calls.”
Prior to the alleged break, there were also conversations about the race of his children that left him shocked, which Harry said he would “never” describe to the public.
“By that point I took matters into my own hands,” Harry said when Oprah asked why he got such an allegedly cold reception. “I need to do this for my family. This is not a surprise.”
He also said the decision didn’t blind-side the Queen, as some have suggested.
“I would never blindside my grandmother,” Harry said during the sit-down, “I respect her too much.”
He explained his decision to step back from his royal position was due to a “lack of support, and a lack of understanding,” both from his family and from the UK press.
“I’ve got to do something for my own mental health, for my wife’s, and for Archie’s as well, because I could see where this was headed,” Harry added, an apparent reference to the turbulent life of his mother, Princess Diana, who faced heavy scrutiny in the media and at times clashed with the norms expected from a royal.
The prince also suggested his family members like Prince William and Prince Charles might suffer from similar feelings, but weren’t able to act on them.
“My father and my brother, they are trapped,” he continued. “They don’t get to leave, and I have huge compassion for that.”
There was also the matter of race. Prince Harry mentioned a conversation he said he would “never share” about his first child before he was born, and how race related to what his life would look like.
“That conversation I am never going to share, but at the time, at the time it was awkward, I was a bit shocked,” Harry said.
The prince said he longed for the public support of his family as the tabloids dug at Meghan with inflammatory rhetoric.
“There was way of doing this, but for us, for this union, and the specifics around her race, there was an opportunity, many opportunities, for my family to show some public support,” he continued.
“No one in my family said anything in those two years,” he said.
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