Prince Harry
Princess Diana would have been "heartbroken" that the feud with his brother Prince William had ended up as it had.
He told Good Morning America that their mother would have been devastated by the conflicts, which he said were fueled by briefings to a divided press.
Before reconciliation, Prince Harry stated that "accountability" was required.
He also ruled out a return to the UK as a working royal.
Prince Harry told ABC News TV interviewer Michael Strahan that a return to such a life within the Royal Family in the UK would be "unsurvivable."
"That's really sad because that's essentially breaking the relationship between us," said Prince Harry in an interview about his memoir, Spare.
In the book, Prince Harry discusses the traumatic legacy of his mother's death in a car accident in 1997 but says Diana would be saddened to see the feud between her sons, with Prince Harry referring to William as his "arch nemesis" as well as his "beloved brother" and describing a physical altercation between them.
"I think she'd be looking at it long-term to realize that there are certain things that we need to go through to mend the relationship," he added in the interview.
He also discussed his relationship with Camilla, the Queen Consort, noting that while they hadn't spoken in a long time, he didn't regard her as an "evil stepmother."
Prince Harry felt sorry for her because she was the "third person in my parent's marriage."
No matter what negotiations, trades, or agreements were made in the beginning, he claimed that she needed to restore her reputation and image, and "she was encouraged to feel it would be the greatest approach to achieving it."
These claims, which offer Prince Harry's perspective on the situation, have received no response so far from either Kensington Palace or Buckingham Palace.
Using the Jeremy Clarkson newspaper column incident as evidence, Prince Harry claimed in an interview with ITV on Sunday that the Royal Family was failing to support his wife, Meghan.
Last month, the Duke of Sussex remarked that the "deafening silence" surrounding the "horrific" Sun report was concerning.
He compared this with the fast response taken at a Buckingham Palace banquet following a racing row.
According to Clarkson's post on Meghan, the journalist "dreams of the day when she is ordered to march nude through the streets of every town in Britain as mobs cry "Shame!" and toss chunks of feces at her."
The Sun later removed the piece, prompting an apology from both the tabloid and Mr. Clarkson, and Prince Harry branded it as "horrific, terrible, and brutal towards my wife."
"The world is asking for some form of a comment from the monarchy. But the silence is deafening. "To put it mildly," he said.
"Everything to do with my wife, after six years, they haven't said a single thing."
He also said he believed that stereotyping Meghan—as an "American actress, divorced, and biracial"—had been a barrier to Prince William and Catherine "welcoming her in" to the family.
"Very quickly it became Meghan versus Kate," he said, saying it was fair to say "almost from the get-go" that the sisters-in-law did not "get on"
Prince Harry accused the Royal Family of "falling into bed with the devil" to boost its image, citing links between "some members of the family and the tabloid press."
The prince compared the absence of a royal response to the Clarkson piece to what happened after Lady Susan Hussey and Ngozi Fulani met at Buckingham Palace just three weeks earlier.
Lady Hussey constantly questioned Ms. Fulani, the founder of a black British charity, during an event.
Ms. Fulani complained about how the discussion had upset her, leading the Palace to issue an immediate apology.
Lady Hussey was supported by Prince Harry, who stated that "she had never intended any damage at all." However, he compared her and Ms. Fulani's reconciliation meeting at Buckingham Palace with the response to Prince Harry and Meghan's accusations.
Following ITV's show, Prince Harry appeared on CBS News 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper. He mentioned Camilla, the Queen Consort, and her relations with the media in this interview, which aired a few hours later.
Cooper pressed the Duke on his claims in his memoirs that Camilla would be "less dangerous" if she was happy.
Camilla was deemed risky by Prince Harry because she needed to "rehabilitate her image" and was "eager" to cultivate relationships with the British press.
"And with a family founded on hierarchy and her on the route to becoming Queen Consort, there would be individuals or bodies left on the street as a result," she went on.
The ITV interview also brought up Prince Harry and Meghan's former claim that a member of the Royal Family had questioned the skin tone of their pregnant child, which they made in a 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Once again, Prince Harry remained unidentified, thinking that "unconscious prejudice" rather than racism may have been at work.
When asked if he thought the inquiry was racist, he said, "I wouldn't if I hadn't lived within that household."
He denied having made any racial accusations against members of the Royal Family in the Oprah interview, claiming that "the British press had said that."
Frequently criticizing the tabloid press, Prince Harry stated that it was his "life's work" to alter the media environment.
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