“Right now, I don’t recognize my father or my brother, just as they probably don’t recognize me,” he said in one of the interviews he has given
The prince henry He has assured that it is “one hundred percent possible” that there will be a reconciliation with his family as long as “responsibilities are taken,” in an interview with Britain’s ITV before the publication of his biography, titled in Spanish “In the Shadow,” on Tuesday.
In the next few hours they will be disseminated three other interviews that he has given to American chainsafter, in addition, in recent days the press has already published multiple leaks of the book.
The youngest son of Carlos and Diana, who currently resides in the United States, He said he does not yet know if he will be invited to King Charles III’s coronation in London in May.but notes that “a lot can happen” until then.
Despite the numerous reproaches he makes to his father and his brother Guillermo -heir to the throne-, Enrique maintains that he continues to believe “in the monarchy”and ensures that nothing he does or says is “to harm or harm” his relatives.
However, he acknowledged that relations are currently very tense and accuses them of having “slept with the devil” in the media to “rehabilitate his image”, while discrediting him and his wife Meghan.
“Right now, I don’t recognize my father or my brotherjust as they probably don’t recognize me,” he said in an ITV conversation with journalist Tom Bradby.
Prejudice towards Meghan
At another point in the interview, Enrique has stated that William, heir to the British throne, and his wife Catherine “got along badly” with Meghan “From the beginning” due to prejudices about her exacerbated by the British press.
He opined that the stereotypes about his wife for being “American, actress, divorced, mixed race” they acted as “a barrier” that prevented the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge from “hosting” her.
His older brother, he claimed, He came to attack him after arguing with him about the young American, whom he called “rude” and “abrasive”.
Enrique explained that Guillermo He expressed “his reservations” to her before their wedding with the actress of the series “Suits” in 2018, although he did not forbid him to marry her. “It will be difficult for you,” he warned her nonetheless.
The prince, 38 years old, confesses that he himself had social and racial prejudices in the past, “an unconscious bias” that, in his opinion, affects his entire family, the institution and his upbringing.
He confirmed that due to this unconscious bias, which if not resolved “can rise to racism,” he said, a member of the royal family came to express concern about the skin color his son would have with Meghansomething that the couple already revealed in a previous interview with the American Oprah Winfrey.
Enrique has confessed in the conversation with ITV, in which he reads passages from his book, that has suffered post-traumatic stress after the death of his mother in a car accident in 1997.
He reveals that he “only cried once” for his loss, during the funeral, and that felt “guilty” for that inability to show emotionwhich he attributes to his restrictive upbringing and the pressure of his environment.
In the book it says that Carlos He didn’t even hug him when he told him about Diana’s death.sitting on his bed in the Scottish castle of Balmoral.
He also explains that the princess’s brother, Count Carlos Spencer, was initially opposed, calling it “barbaric”to Guillermo and Enrique, then 15 and 12 years old, walking behind their mother’s coffin during the public procession for her burial, an act that deeply affected the minors.
On the other hand, based on leaks of the book -which was published prematurely by mistake in Spain although it was later withdrawn from bookstores-, it has also been known that Prince Charles was supposedly jealous of his daughters-in-law’s popularity and that both brothers implored him not to marry Camila, the current queen consort.
Enrique has also explained that he killed 25 Taliban as a helicopter pilot in Afghanistan; that he lost his virginity at 17 to an older woman outside a crowded pub and that He has used cocaine and magic mushrooms.