London, (EFE).- 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 assumed”, in an interview with the British network ITV before his biography is published on Tuesday, titled in Spanish “In the shade”.
In the next few hours, three other interviews that he has given to American channels will be broadcast, after, in addition, in recent days the press has already published multiple leaks of the book.
Charles and Diana’s youngest son, who currently resides in the United States, said he does not yet know if he will be invited to King Charles III’s coronation in London in May, but says “many things can happen” until then.
Despite the numerous reproaches that he makes to his father and his brother Guillermo -heir to the throne-, Enrique maintains that he continues to believe “in the monarchy”, and assures that nothing he does or says is “to harm or hurt” his family members.
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 brother, just as they probably don’t recognize me,” he said in an ITV conversation with journalist Tom Bradby.
PREJUDICES 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” acted as “a barrier” that prevented the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge from “welcoming” her.
His older brother, he claimed, came to attack him after arguing with him about the young American, whom he described as “rude” and “abrasive.”
Enrique explained that Guillermo expressed “his reservations” to him before his wedding with the actress from the series “Suits” in 2018, although he did not forbid him from marrying her. It will be difficult for you, he warned her nonetheless.
The 38-year-old prince confesses that he himself had social and racial prejudices in the past, “an unconscious bias” that, in his opinion, affects his entire family, because of the institution and because of his upbringing.
He confirmed that due to this unconscious bias, which if not resolved “can amount to racism,” he said, a member of the royal family came to express concern about the skin color his son would have with Meghan, something that the couple already revealed in an earlier interview with American Oprah Winfrey.
Enrique has confessed in the conversation with ITV, in which he reads passages from his book, that he suffered post-traumatic stress disorder 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 he felt “guilty” for this inability to show emotion, which he attributes to his restrictive upbringing and the pressure of his environment.
In the book he says that Carlos did not even hug him when he told him of Diana’s death, sitting on his bed in the Scottish castle of Balmoral.
It also explains that the princess’s brother, Count Carlos Spencer, was initially opposed, describing it as “outrageous”, 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 the popularity of his daughters-in-law and that both brothers they implored him not to marry Camilla, 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’s been on cocaine and magic mushrooms.
