AS interviews go, it was never going to be up there with Frost/ Nixon or even Emily Maitlis and Prince Andrew.
Nor is ITV’s Tom Bradby likely to be up for an impartiality award anytime soon.
But Bradby is now bootlicker-in-chief at the court of Harry and Meghan, so what were we to expect?
As for Harry, the laser beam of his hatred was squarely trained on the press.
I blushed as he attributed to us powers of brainwashing so far reaching that Harry and Meghan fled the country “fearing for our lives”.
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What quickly becomes apparent is when the Duke isn’t attacking his family, he believes the media to be culpable for every one of his travails.
Take Diana. For the first time, her youngest son blames her death squarely on the paparazzi.
Whilst his account of the night she died is certainly moving, Harry make claims that are illogical and preposterous.
I get his point about royal life not being everyone’s cup of tea, but he loses our sympathy in his refusal to acknowledge personal responsibility for his mistakes, or admit that anyone else, including his brother William, could be his equal in suffering.
It might have been more constructive to point out to Harold that the answer to being miserable isn’t to make other people even unhappier.
Let us suppose Harry has been wronged occasionally. We have all suffered at the hands of relatives, but this shouldn’t blind us to human frailty. The Duke magnanimously stated that his aim is reconciliation, but his notion of forgiveness is so conditional it sounds like the Geneva Convention
His relatives need to acknowledge their “accountability,” as we have only heard “one side of the story.” He’s right, there. For a year and a half we’ve heard nothing but “one side of the story” - his. And, on numerous occasions, his word has proved about as trustworthy as a bent copper's. Harry, The Interview illustrated that the Duke is a natural contrarian, who forgets nothing and learns nothing, He cannot make peace with the past, the past which, such is the human condition, he is destined to repeat.
