Thread by @ellievhall

Here we go: Prince Harry's ITV interview with @tombradby about his memoir #Spare is airing now:
#HarryTheInterview

Harry describes leaving the UK with Meghan and Archie as "flee[ing] for their lives"

The ITV documentary features excerpts of Harry reading aloud from #Spare (he narrated the audiobook).

Harry says that he doesn't have many memories from before Princess Diana's death; part of his "post-traumatic stress injury."

Harry said that "the decision was made" for him and Prince William to walk behind their mother's grave. Neither brother would let the other do it alone.

Following the Queen's death, before the procession, Harry and William joked with each other, "At least we know the way."

Harry's said that his former secretary Jamie [Lowther-Pinkerton] helped him get his hands on the government file on Princess Diana's death.

Harry says he's glad to this day that Jamie removed the most graphic photos.

Harry says he doesn't see the point of another inquiry into Princess Diana's death.

FIRST COMMERCIAL BREAK.

Thoughts so far: At least from the clips we've heard, Harry seems to be a pretty good narrator? So if you were debating buying the book on Audible, I'd recommend pulling the trigger.

AND WE'RE BACK

Harry's drug use was to make him feel "different" as a form of escape.

Harry sidesteps a question about the 3rd-in-line to the throne using a "Class A drug" (cocaine) being of public interest.

Says that the relationship between the royal family and the tabloid press is of more public interest.

Harry says he loves his family.

"Nothing I've done has any intention to harm them or hurt them."

Tom Bradby describes Harry's writing about Camilla as consistently"scathing."

Harry questions that specific word but agrees that his interests were discarded in favor of Camilla's interests

Harry says he wants his family back but, "I don't recognize them as much as they probably don't recognize me."

Harry says that a reconciliation between him and the rest of his family would be "good for them."

COMMERCIAL BREAK TWO:

Harry DEFINITELY feels a kind of way about Camilla — and I don't think @tombradby would casually use the word "scathing" to describe his writing about her in #Spare.

Harry says he loves Kate and sees her as "the sister I never had."

Harry says that William and Kate "didn't get on" with Meghan from the very beginning. (Although they were fans of "Suits")

"I don't think they were expecting me to get in a relationship with someone like Meghan. There was a lot of stereotyping at the beginning."

Harry says that "a lot of [his] family] regularly read the UK tabloids.

Harry said that he believes the Palace didn't correct the story about Meghan making Kate cry because they didn't want the public to speculate if it had been the other way around (which, again, Harry and Meghan say was what really happened.)

There's a lot of talk about Harry's beard.

Prince Harry: "The moment William married Kate, they went through a large portion of the same things that Meghan and I went through [from the King and Camilla's press office."

COMMERCIAL BREAK THREE:

My biggest observation from this segment is that Harry emphasized (I believe he mentioned it 3x) that members of the royal family read the UK tabloids — he implied that they read them daily.

WE'RE BACK

In #Spare, Harry refers to the "Duchess Difficult" narrative about Meghan as "bullshit."

At Prince Philip's funeral, William told Harry that he wanted him to be happy and used their "secret passcode" that meant he was 100% serious — William swore "on Mummy's life" that he wanted Harry to be happy.

Harry says he didn't believe his brother.

Whenever @tombradby raises the point that with the book and Netflix series, Harry's invading his family's privacy without their permission, he counters that the years of the royal family briefing the press against him and Meghan is worse than what he's doing.

Harry says he thinks there's a 100% chance of a reconciliation with his family and doesn't think his actions (book, Netflix, interviews have made that impossible.

"I don't see how honesty is burning bridges... I don't know how staying silent is going to make things any better."

COMMERCIAL BREAK:

Harry really 100% believes that his tell-alls are justified by all of the years of leaked stories about him and Meghan to the tabloids.

"My family has tried to control [the press] for years and they're still trying to control it."

Prince Harry: "I'm happy with [the press] talking crap about me every single day because I know it's not true. What I draw a line at is when you incite hatred towards myself and my wife and my children."

Harry brings up the Jeremy Clarkson article, which he calls "horrific and hateful and cruel to my wife."

Harry said that he was glad Ngozi Fulani met with Lady Susan Hussey at Buckingham Palace.

He said he and Meghan "love" Lady Susan Hussey and knew that she "never meant any harm at all."

He thinks that the whole incident was a good example of the Palace showing accountability.

Prince Harry: "A 'royal source' is not an unknown person. It is the Palace specifically briefing the press, but covering their tracks by being unnamed."

COMMERCIAL BREAK:

You can't help but wonder what kind of "accountability" on the part of the royal family would be acceptable to Harry. What would they need to do?

Bit of a tense moment in the interview, the first one so far. @tombradby asks about Harry and Meghan accusing the royal family of racism in the Oprah interview.

Harry stops him and says that was how the press covered it, neither he nor Meghan made accusations.

Prince Harry: "My problem has never been with the monarchy, nor the concept of the monarchy. It has been with the press and the sick relationship that's evolved between [the press] and the Palace."

Harry says that he believes lots of people in the institution "always thought" that Meghan would leave — they never thought that Harry would walk away.

Interview wraps up with Harry saying that he's "never been happier."