North Texans are snapping
up Prince Harry's memoir,
which went on sale today.
Hold lists at local libraries are
in the hundreds. In the book,
the British Royal makes blistering claims
about the royal family and British press.
James Longman has the latest on that
and the reaction from the palace.
This morning, as Prince Harry's new
memoir officially hits the shelves,
his claims about his family sent
shockwaves through the monarchy,
and he cannot forgive his own family
for doing what he sees
as a deal with the devil.
He claimed his stepmother
had sacrificed him to help
rehabilitate her image.
I ran the whole
communications team for the
king and the Queen consort.
Never once did any member of the
Royal Family brief a member of
the media with a story or run
into the communications team.
Or call us by the phone and say I'd
like you to brief this into the media.
I'm not happy with the attention this
member of the royal family is getting.
The notion is quite simply ridiculous.
The press and public reacting to
Harry's headline making claims
about his complicated relationship
with the Queen Consort Camilla,
which he discussed with Michael Strahan.
When your father, Mary Camilla,
you wrote I had complex feelings
about gaining a stepparent who I
thought had recently sacrificed
me on her personal PR altar.
What has she done at that point you felt?
I have a huge amount of
compassion for her, you know,
being in the the third person within.
My parents, marriage and.
She had a reputation or
an image to rehabilitate.
And whatever conversations happened,
whatever. Deals or trading was
was made right at the beginning.
She was led to believe that that
would be the best way of doing it.
And I can understand why.
Harry says he struggled with the
onslaught of negative press coverage,
but it reached a new level when he
started dating his now wife, Meghan.
In the book, you talk about talking to
your therapist and you said you had an
addiction to reading about yourself.
Have you fixed that addiction,
that addiction? Actually,
the majority of what I was reading
wasn't about myself, was about my wife.
Girlfriend at the time, because I was.
I was literally I was gobsmacked
and hands up naive to the the
bigotry and the cronyism within
the British tabloids at the time.
There was a real education for me
where it became very personal for me.
Other than the fact that this was my
girlfriend they were writing about
was the realization that the way
that they speak about her and the
way they treat her is incredibly
relatable to everybody else of color.
Harry says headlines like these were
examples of the racism Megan faced writing.
It was quote dog whistle racism and the
glaring vulgar in your face racism.
But he made a distinction between
unconscious bias and racism in the monarchy.
I think the same process that I went through.
With regarding my own unconscious bias
would be hugely beneficial to them.
It's not racism, but unconscious bias,
if not confronted,
if not learned and grown from.
That that can then move into racism.
But his views on race also controversial.
This is a conversation that's
been debated for many years by
professors and politicians and I
think it's only normal that Harry,
who as he admitted his kind of started
this anti racism journey recently,
would still have these questions.
And where I think he went wrong was
perhaps speaking with such authority.
Especially as a white man himself,
and one that's led a very privileged life.
Still no comment from either
Kensington or Buckingham Palace,
but there are so many controversial
claims made in this book that
you'd think someone at some
point has to say something.
James Longman, ABC News in London.