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Prince Harry criticises his family (again)

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Just days after appearing on a podcast in which he called America’s first amendment ‘bonkers‘ Prince Harry has now popped up again in another interview with Oprah Winfrey. Back in March, in his infamous joint interview with Meghan Markle, Harry told the media mogul that Prince Charles had cut off all communication with him but that ‘I will continue to make it one of my priorities to heal that relationship.’ So it was curious to hear the Duke of Sussex yet again criticising his father and the rest of his family in the interview, accusing them of ‘total neglect’ in its treatment towards he and his wife.

The interview is part of a new Apple TV+ documentary series about mental health called The Me You Can’t See featuring stars like Glenn Close, Lady Gaga and Britain’s very own self-exiled prince. Turning his guns on his own family, Harry claims that they did not offer support in dealing with the resulting press attention and mental distress following the death of his mother Princess Diana: 

My father used to say to me when I was younger, he used to say to both William and I, “Well it was like that for me so it’s going to be like that for you.”

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