The Duke of Sussex’s brutal criticism of his upbringing is similar to the details once shared by his father Prince Charles, sources close to the duke said.
Prince Harry, 36, faced a backlash from royal staff who claimed that he had shown a ‘woeful lack of compassion’ for his own family by implying the Queen and Prince Charles failed him as a child.
During the interview with podcaster Dax Shepard, Harry said that his father had treated him ‘the way he was treated.’ He then asked himself, ‘how can I change that for my own kids?’
Harry also said that he and Meghan had decided to go to the US to ‘break the cycle’ of ‘genetic pain’ he had endured as a child.
Royal staff told The Mail of a growing sense of ‘betrayal’ and ‘bewilderment’ and even called for Harry and Meghan to give up their titles after the Duke of Sussex’s ‘disgraceful’ attack on the Royal family.
Palace aides also claimed Harry ‘thrown others under the bus’ during the latest interview, The Telegraph reported.
Royal Family expert Kathie Nicholl said that Harry’s remarks have left people in the UK in ‘quite a bit of shock.’
“I think certainly people over here are a little disappointed and I think frustrated as well, hearing Prince Harry indirectly criticize the royal family, which I think is the interpretation by some over here in the UK,” she told Entertainment Tonight.
“A lot of people here think Prince Harry has overstepped a mark in talking so personally about his father, and his relationship with his father, in what most people have interpreted to be quite a critical way.”
But sources close to the Duke of Sussex pointed out that Prince Charles also had a tell-all moment in 1994 when he allowed Jonathan Dimbleby to write The Prince of Wales: A Biography following personal interviews with him.
The book reveals more details about Charles’ unhappy childhood and the breakdown of his marriage to the late Princess Diana.
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