Britain: The royal family is torn by the revelations in Harry’s memoirs

Four months before the coronation of the new King Charles, his son, Prince Harryi, accused of trying to destroy British royal family after revelations in his memoirsa book that seems to erase any chance of reconciliation between the Windsors.

The royal family is keeping quiet about Harry’s revelations and accusations that have been leaked to the press. The book “Reserva”, which will be released on January 10, was accidentally put on sale for a few hours in Spain and its contents turned out to be much more poisonous than many thought.

“No one is spared in Harry’s brutal mission to destroy the family”writes the tabloid The Daily Mirror.

The Sun newspaper accuses the prince, now living in exile in California, of “pushed his family on the wheels of the bus to win millions of dollars”. The Daily Mail criticizes him for choosing to “spew as much venom as possible”.

The British media are simultaneously competing to publish the most shocking excerpts from the 500-page book. The worst apparently concerns his brother, Prince William, the heir to the throne whom Harry describes as a “sworn enemy”. The Duke of Sussex accuses William of running him down in a row they had in 2019 over Meghan Markle, whom Harry had married the previous year.

Harry refers to this row and in his interview to be broadcast on Sunday on the ITV channel, where he asserts that William, in a rage, provoked him to hit him but then apologized to him.

For royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams, “the worst thing” about the book is the way William is portrayed. “Someone who betrayed him (…) Someone who really attacked him. It is not a flattering portrait of a future king.’

Attack on Charles

Harry also claims that he and William opposed their father’s marriage to Camilla because they feared she would become a “bad stepmother”.

According to the Telegraph, she accuses Charles of implying that the Sussexes were “costing him dearly” and that he wanted to get rid of Meghan because she would overshadow him.

The prince proceeds to make personal confessions, without any filter: confesses that he used cocainethat killed 25 Taliban in Afghanistandescribes how he lost his virginityrecounts that he visited a psychic to communicate with his motherDiana, who was killed in 1997 in a car accident in Paris.

“I don’t think we’ve ever seen anything like it, where a member of the royal family publicly attacks the institution,” commented Craig Prescott, a constitutional scholar at Bangor University in Wales. “If this goes on for long enough – it’s been going on for a couple of years already – people might start to wonder, is there a need for a reform of the monarchy?” he said.

Despite what he writes in “Reserve”, Harry reiterates in his ITV interview that he wants to reconcile with his family.

So far, Buckingham has not responded. The Sun quoted imgs close to Charles and William as saying that “they grieve’ for what Harry writes in the book. For Fitzwilliams, “the Sussexes now control the agenda because the palace cannot easily reciprocate.” The book “it is destruction, at the time of the coronation approaching“, he added. Until recently, many believed that Harry would be able to attend this historic event with the rest of the family, but now it seems that is out of the question.

When asked about the matter this morning, Mr Prime Minister Rishi Sunak explained that it was “not appropriate” to comment on the royal family.

Taliban v. Harry

One high-ranking Taliban official Moreover accused Harry of war crimes, for what he describes around his two missions in Afghanistan. The prince, who was a helicopter pilot in the Royal Air Force, claims to have killed 25 Taliban and saw enemies as “pawns on a chessboard”, as he was taught in his training.

“Mr. Harry! Those you killed were not chess pieces, they were people, they had familiesAnas Haqqani said. “But the truth is as you say it: our innocent people were like pawns for your soldiers and military and political leaders. And yet, you lost the game“, he added.

Taliban government spokesman Bilak Karimi also criticized Haribut adding that the “crimes” were committed not only by him but also by “every occupation force in our country”.

“Afghans will never forget the crimes of the conquerors“, he added.

Ex-soldiers against Harry

The prince served 10 years in the British army and when he left he held the rank of squadron leader. He defended his action in Afghanistan by arguing that the enemies he was fighting had committed a crime against humanity, namely the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

What he writes, however, was not enthusiastically received by his former colleagues.

“We love you, Harry, but you need to get the hell out of here!” tweeted Ben McBean, a former marine who lost an arm and a leg in Afghanistan in 2008 and whom the prince calls a “real hero” in his book.

“Now, Harry turned against his other family, the army” said veteran Airman Tims Collins, who served in the Iraq war. “We don’t act like that in the military, we don’t think like that,” he insisted, referring to the Duke of Sussex’s account of the enemies he killed. The book is “a tragic scam to get money“, he added.

It’s not the first time Harry has caused a stir over how he handled his military service in Afghanistan. In 2013, he said that for a helicopter pilot, killing insurgent fighters is like a video game.