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Prince Harry on Camilla, His Troubled 20s and the Enduring Trauma of Diana’s Death

Prince Harry on Camilla, His Troubled 20s and the Enduring Trauma of Diana’s Death

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Prince Harry on Camilla, His Troubled 20s and the Enduring Trauma of Diana’s Death

Prince Harry on Camilla, His Troubled 20s and the Enduring Trauma of Diana’s Death

Prince Harry on Camilla, His Troubled 20s and the Enduring Trauma of Diana’s Death

Monday, 9th January 2023
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0:00

It

0:02

is Monday, January ninth, and

0:04

this is people every day. Well,

0:09

hi there everyone. I am People's

0:12

editorial director of society and culture,

0:14

Michelle Tober. Janine is out today

0:17

and I am honored to be filling

0:19

in for her especially on

0:21

today of all days when there is so

0:23

much news surrounding the royal

0:25

family. So let's jump

0:27

right in with the biggest story

0:30

out there in the royals world. Naturally,

0:32

I'm talking about Kate Middleton's first

0:34

day. That's right. The princess

0:37

of Wales is forty one years old

0:39

today and in fact is celebrating

0:41

her very first birthday as the princess

0:43

of Wales. The royal family Twitter

0:45

account, of course, posted a

0:47

birthday wish to her with a smiling photo

0:49

of Kate and a caption that read quote,

0:52

wishing the Princess of Wales a very

0:54

happy birthday today. Kate and William

0:56

have had a very busy few

0:58

weeks And while they typically tend to keep

1:01

birthdays really private and low key,

1:03

I do hope that Kate is enjoying a few

1:05

extra moments of relaxation today

1:08

And then, yes, aside from

1:10

today being Kate's 41st birthday,

1:13

I suppose there is one more royal

1:15

family story floating out there today.

1:18

That would be Prince Harry. Yesterday,

1:21

the Duke of Sussex had two

1:23

big sit down interviews, one

1:25

on sixty minutes, and one on

1:27

ITV in the UK. And then

1:29

there was another this morning on Good

1:31

Morning America. And all

1:33

of these are, of course, to

1:35

discuss Prince Harry and

1:37

his new memoir spare. Well,

1:43

tomorrow is a very big day. Prince

1:45

Harry's memoirs fare will finally

1:48

be in bookstores for everyone to buy,

1:50

although it does feel like it's been out for a few

1:52

days. But before you receive your

1:54

copy, let's dive into all of

1:57

the interviews he's been doing lately where he's really

1:59

been shutting some additional light on what

2:01

he writes in the book. So joining me

2:03

now to discuss everything are

2:05

my royals colleagues, People's

2:07

Chief foreign correspondent, Simon Perry,

2:10

and People Senior Editor, Erin

2:12

Hill. So there is a lot to

2:14

get into, and I guess I'd like to start

2:16

with some of what Harry discusses

2:18

in his interviews regarding Camilla,

2:21

the Queen consort. Simon,

2:24

it seemed as though goes a

2:26

bit further in the interviews than he does in the

2:28

book about some of the things

2:30

he alleges she did in

2:32

terms of what he

2:34

says about, you know, planting stories and and

2:36

and being he uses the word the

2:39

villain in this

2:40

scenario. What do you make of that? It was

2:42

fascinating. Wasn't it about Camilla? She is

2:44

mentioned throughout the book and there are hints

2:47

that she or people around

2:49

her were behind some of the leaks about

2:51

both Harry and William. But yeah.

2:53

In the last day or so, he's gone a bit further. Hasn't

2:56

even talked about being sacrificed on

2:58

her PR alter. There's no

3:00

doubt, especially when he was a bit younger,

3:03

there were people employed

3:05

to promote Camilla and

3:08

make her the com country Britain

3:10

ready for her as a wife of

3:12

Charles and sometimes

3:15

that meant running stories that were

3:17

negative towards Harry and

3:19

to a lesser extent William. Yeah.

3:21

It was quite something to hear him call her dangerous.

3:24

In terms of, you know, what he meant was

3:26

she had this sort of motive to

3:29

want to distract or deflect from

3:31

negative coverage of herself. And

3:33

again, alleging that she did that by using

3:35

the press to her advantage. Were you surprised

3:37

to hear him write in the book

3:40

to read that he wrote in the book that Harry and William

3:42

begged their father Charles not to marry her?

3:45

I wasn't surprised because they always had

3:47

this difficult relationship with

3:49

the idea of her. But as

3:51

he often points out in the book and in these

3:53

interviews, there's no doubt she

3:55

makes his father happy. They like

3:57

seeing their father happy. And I think

3:59

he makes an aside, doesn't her

4:01

being happy, might be a good thing that that stories

4:03

would stop. So he does see

4:06

the benefits of Camilo being around

4:08

and both for his father have the family as a

4:10

whole, and he also says he gets on well

4:12

with her. It's difficult, isn't

4:14

it for him marrying up the

4:16

politics of it with with what is actually the

4:18

human relationship that have gone

4:20

on and seemed to thrive in the family. I mean,

4:22

you know, his father is happier. Right.

4:25

Right. He did call Canela his father's

4:27

person, which is sort of an American modern

4:29

way of saying that. Erin turning

4:31

to the quite extensive passages

4:34

in the book and also in the interviews

4:36

about the death of his mother, Princess

4:38

Diana, I think one of the things that

4:40

really resonated and really

4:42

surprised a lot of people was

4:44

this idea he reveals that he

4:46

didn't really believe his

4:48

mother was dead for a very long

4:50

time. Can you tell us more about

4:52

that? You've heard so much from him over the years,

4:54

while he's coats with his mother's death in

4:56

the therapy he's been through and I'll say, well, it's been

4:58

painful, but we've never heard him talk

5:00

about this before that for many years

5:02

and into his twenties, and

5:04

it's part of this idea in his mind that his

5:06

mother was in hiding and not really dead

5:08

and that she was going to come for him and

5:10

William one day and he just couldn't

5:13

reason in his own mind that this was actually

5:15

happened. It is really heartbreaking and

5:17

it really shows that this was a young

5:19

boy and then a young man who really did

5:21

need more help than he was getting in processing

5:24

the death of his mother. He went to

5:26

great lengths to try to convince

5:28

himself that one or the other from

5:30

asking to see the

5:32

secret government photos of from

5:34

the crash and her death to even reliving

5:37

the final ride she took in that Paris

5:40

tunnel himself. He was just

5:42

really trying to find out for

5:44

himself and what happened to this and

5:46

possibly happened. Yeah. It

5:48

was really I thought that that was really devastating

5:50

hearing the links he went to

5:52

convince himself that she was really gone.

5:55

I thought in the interview with

5:57

Anderson Cooper changing topics

5:59

that one of the most

6:01

pointed moments in that interview

6:03

is when Anderson said to Harry,

6:06

okay, you've made it clear why

6:08

you left, why then

6:10

not give up your royal titles,

6:12

which, of course, are Duke and

6:14

Duchess of Sussex for Meghan and

6:16

Harry. Simon, what did you think of his

6:18

answer to that. And also, I

6:20

thought it was very telling that

6:23

Harry seems to be laying some

6:25

bread crumbs

6:26

Possibly, pretty publicly for his father

6:29

about a role he'd like to see in the

6:31

future. Well, to answer the first part, why

6:33

not give up your title? It's perfectly good question.

6:35

Isn't it? But he said what difference does it

6:37

make while the glibly, I suppose, in

6:39

his answer, but also, I

6:41

mean, he would see it probably. It

6:43

was given by his grandmother and it sticks with

6:45

him a bit like being born Prince Harry. I

6:47

imagine he hasn't said that, but it

6:49

was given on his wedding day. It's

6:51

not like there's other things that he gave up, which was

6:53

his duties, for example, he had to give

6:55

up when he left. But I agree

6:57

he's thrown out this idea that

7:00

he could. If dad asks him as he made

7:02

a point in Tom Bradley's interview,

7:04

he would consider coming back, but there's

7:06

got to be more apologies before than

7:08

he said as well. But he is leaving

7:10

a door open and he's tantalizing

7:13

sort of idea that he could almost

7:15

work in the commonwealth. I think there is the beginnings

7:17

of him trying to sort of see

7:19

if there was a way back into real life

7:22

if they wanted it. And obviously,

7:24

there's a long way to go in terms of working

7:26

that out on both sides. Yeah.

7:28

He gives this very final answer regarding

7:30

no. I will never be a full

7:32

time working royal again, but very

7:34

much leaves the door open to

7:36

this idea of serving his father

7:38

or the crown in some way within the Commonwealth.

7:41

Which again, which was a bit like what

7:43

they proposed when they first left. I

7:45

suppose he's trying to get back to that, which

7:47

we might come back to the same problems. But

7:50

it shows that they're still wanting to have

7:52

some way of moving forward, I think,

7:54

It does. So between the three of us,

7:56

we have been covering this family for

7:58

several decades. And

8:01

some of what we've heard in this

8:03

book and in these interviews directly

8:05

from Harry are certainly things that

8:07

we have heard from sources

8:09

within the family within the

8:11

institution on and off

8:13

throughout the years. And, you know, I wondered

8:16

how for you, Simon, hearing

8:18

directly from Harry for the first time.

8:20

Is it validating in terms of

8:22

your own reporting? Did anything

8:24

really shock you or did it

8:26

feel more like, okay, for the first

8:28

time, he's really confirming things

8:30

that had been said sort of quietly throughout

8:33

the years. Well, it's incredible.

8:35

The most recent stuff that we've

8:37

all been covering over the last couple of years is

8:39

why they left, why they had the terrible

8:41

arguments that that led to their

8:43

partially from the royal family, a working end of the

8:45

royal family. And Harry

8:47

confirmed it that his brother had

8:49

warned him if it's all shown concern

8:52

about how fast were moving in their relationship.

8:54

Harry and Meghan were moving in their relationship,

8:56

which is a story that we'd been writing for the

8:58

last couple of years. Okay. It hadn't been

9:00

denied, and we confident of it. But at the

9:02

same time, here it was suddenly coming

9:04

from one of their voices. And then

9:06

there's things like in confirming his

9:08

drug use. Yes. We all reported that a long

9:10

time ago. Although it seems to be at

9:12

different points to when it first came out. And

9:14

their difficulties as we talked earlier about and

9:16

conflicts about Camilla and

9:18

the role in their lives as young

9:20

men and As I say, I think that's

9:22

more reconciled now, but it clearly

9:24

was a very hard time for him

9:26

and for William in terms of

9:29

getting used to her, but also the sorts

9:31

of conversations around the

9:33

place and in the media that that

9:35

surrounded her. And the fact that

9:37

he's written it all down over four

9:39

hundred odd pages, it's fascinating

9:42

because we've covered a lot of it, and here we

9:44

are actually hearing his own take on it,

9:46

and some of it's resonates.

9:48

Some of it is brand new, like the

9:50

Nativa, who came to blows with his brother, which I'll

9:52

be honest, I did. Obviously, I've never heard

9:54

of before but it's fascinating to hear his side

9:56

of these last thirty odd

9:58

years. Again, it's it's really unprecedented

10:01

even his mother when she

10:03

first did share her side of the story to Andrew Morton,

10:05

did so under a cloak

10:07

of anonymity, not revealing that

10:09

she was Andrew Morton source. So

10:11

to have him put his name to

10:13

this is something really extraordinary. And I

10:15

think it's interesting, Simon, that he

10:17

does call out this use of

10:19

royal sources, unnamed

10:21

sources, which is something certainly that is

10:23

commonplace throughout the press on both

10:25

sides of the Atlantic. What is your

10:27

opinion on his criticism of

10:29

that? I have a big soft spot for

10:31

Prince Harry, and I've admired him over

10:33

the years for many things. But if

10:35

you're a political journalist, you have political

10:37

sources. If you're a royal correspondent or you

10:39

work in the royal world. You have a

10:42

royal source. He he says they're all

10:44

at the palace. Some of them are, some of them

10:46

are friends, some of them are all kinds

10:48

of adjacent to the to the

10:50

palace types. You can have a long debate about whether

10:52

you should name them, whether they should be named,

10:54

and so on. But to

10:56

say that you wouldn't have a source for things

10:58

or that they're all one

11:00

body or one type of person,

11:02

I think is is wrong. I'm not saying

11:05

he's not right in some respects he is,

11:07

but there are many royal sources

11:09

and he's not necessarily being

11:11

right about them all being one kind. He says

11:13

they're basically all the palace. Well,

11:17

there is still so much to talk

11:19

about surrounding Prince Harry and the Windsor

11:21

family. After the break, we get

11:23

into the rest of Harry's setting the

11:25

record straight in these really

11:27

in site down interviews, plus a

11:29

tease of what to expect from our

11:31

own interview with Prince Harry, which will be

11:33

out tomorrow. We'll be right back.

11:42

We are

11:47

back with people's Simon Perry and

11:49

Aaron Hill talking all

11:51

about Prince Harry's new mom our

11:53

spare. Let's get into

11:55

what we hear at people have

11:57

learned in our own reporting. Simon,

12:00

you know, there's quite a a bit obviously

12:02

in the book about Harry's

12:04

relationship with both his father

12:06

Charles and his brother William.

12:08

As someone who has chronicled those

12:11

three individuals quarter of

12:13

a century now, he admitted

12:16

to Anderson Cooper that they

12:18

don't speak at all right now. He and his brother and

12:20

father talked about this narrative

12:22

being shaved against him, talked about why

12:24

he's speaking to the press? Can

12:26

you shutlight on some of that for

12:29

us. It's quite clear they have a very strange

12:31

relationship they have done for a while. I

12:33

think it goes back further. I he even

12:35

says, doesn't either. As a teen, he

12:37

found it hard when he arrives at Eton and

12:39

William, like a lot of our older brothers

12:41

don't wanna be associated with their

12:43

younger sibling, and he even meant in one of interviews

12:45

yesterday that he can see that a little bit in Archie

12:47

that he doesn't want really crashing into his

12:49

playing time or whatever. So

12:51

of sibling rivalry and so on,

12:53

which is built up over the years. But

12:55

obviously, of late, he can't talk to

12:57

his brother very easily because

12:59

They have such diverse opinions

13:02

about where they are in their life and their

13:04

family and and all the relationships that have

13:06

clearly broken down wasn't remotely surprised

13:08

when he's been saying that I don't speak

13:10

to them. I sense that

13:12

he does speak to his dad more

13:14

and has done periodically over the

13:16

recent months. But I suspect and

13:18

I'm fairly certain it's fairly sporadic and

13:20

it comes in fix and starts depending

13:22

on what's needed or whatever.

13:24

Imagine in the coming up to the

13:26

coronation, they will have some

13:28

more back and forth in some form, whether it

13:30

be about an invitation and or

13:32

or not. But with his brother, it's clearly

13:34

harder and Sadly,

13:37

that was writ large, wasn't it? When they

13:39

came over for the funeral, there's very little

13:41

interaction between them and we know that they did

13:43

that walk about but not much else. Together.

13:45

They didn't even go and see the queen on her

13:47

deathbed together. They were separated at

13:49

that point in different houses on the on

13:51

the Scottish estate that where their

13:53

family gathered. As far as speaking to

13:55

the press, you know, I did think

13:57

that Anderson sort of put him on the

13:59

spot because Harry Harry tells him, well, I'd

14:01

like to have conversations privately

14:03

about reconciliation. And Anderson

14:05

said they may say to you, well,

14:07

how can we trust that these

14:09

conversations will remain private? If

14:11

you're sharing other private conversations, it

14:14

feels as though what he's trying to say

14:16

is my family speaks through

14:18

the And always has. And now

14:20

I'm just basically owning

14:22

it. Is that is that the

14:24

right take on that? I think that's I

14:26

suppose that is what he's saying. But I don't

14:28

think it's wholly true, sadly. Does

14:30

every conversation make its way to

14:32

to the media? I assume not.

14:34

I can see their weariness over

14:36

here. Of in Britain whether

14:38

Charles and William are based. They might

14:40

be wary about what conversations might

14:42

suddenly have been appearing in the book,

14:45

which clearly has repeated. Therefore,

14:47

having private conversations or any

14:49

kind of conversation will be

14:51

hard in the short term, hence, why

14:53

reconciliation or reproximate of

14:55

any kind most people

14:58

over here think it's still some way

15:00

off. That makes sense. Now,

15:02

Erin, you know, a big

15:04

topic in both the interviews

15:06

he's done and the book is, of

15:08

course, the very famous interview with

15:10

Oprah Winfrey that Harry and Meghan did

15:12

after they step back from their royal

15:14

royals left the UK. Harry

15:16

has sort of clarified something

15:18

that was one of the most controversial and

15:21

really the the biggest bombshells

15:23

that

15:23

interview. Right? What what has changed

15:25

now that he's talking more about it? So

15:27

Oprah's interview did come up and and within that

15:29

interview, like he said, that one of those talks about

15:31

moments was when Megan shared that the

15:33

color of their future children's

15:35

skin came up and within the

15:37

family and conversations about

15:39

how dark missing collar might

15:41

be when the baby's

15:43

born. And Harry was

15:45

as pressed about that. And

15:48

in how he and Megan accused the royal

15:50

family of racism, and he stopped

15:52

him right there and said, no, you know, the

15:54

British press inferred that and

15:56

Meghan never send their racist.

15:58

And so the interviewer then

16:00

says, you know, this is a that's what's inferred

16:02

and even William was asked point blank,

16:04

and and they are two leaders, the royal

16:06

family racist in which he says, no, we're very

16:08

much not a racist family. But here's

16:10

clarifying saying, wouldn't

16:12

describe the incident that they

16:14

talked about as racist, and it

16:16

wouldn't describe his family members as

16:18

racist not having lived within that family, and he

16:20

points to the difference between racism

16:22

and unconscious bias. And now those two

16:24

things are very different. You're talking about him. He

16:27

himself. Having to dealt with across

16:29

bias and his eyes weren't really opened

16:31

to that until he started

16:33

dating Meghan and saying that

16:35

there's no not racism with his family, but

16:37

there certainly is a bunch ice and

16:39

equates to the recent

16:41

example of the palace involving a

16:43

longstanding member of the palace household

16:45

and a charity founder who was

16:47

invited to a reception who was asked

16:49

some racially charged questions.

16:51

And Harry goes on to say that he and

16:53

Meghan love to stack her. This woman,

16:55

she's a long time waiting waiting of

16:57

the the late queen, and how he says

16:59

this is not something that she meant armed by,

17:01

but it's the unconscious bias. And that's

17:03

one of the main points I was trying to get

17:05

to. But I am curious, Simon, do you

17:07

feel like that change

17:09

and clarification he's offering

17:12

is in Olive Branch to the family. You know,

17:14

I remember when the when these over

17:16

interview happened, Harry

17:18

very quickly the next day, Harry and

17:20

Meghan clarified, the comment was

17:22

not made by my grandmother, the

17:24

queen, or my grandfather, Prince Philip. Now

17:26

he's going a step beyond that and

17:28

saying it was not actually racist.

17:30

Is this sort of in your view and

17:32

attempts at laying some sort of reconciliation

17:35

from work?

17:35

Maybe like we've said before, him holding out a

17:38

little hope for some form of world

17:40

position in the future. Maybe it

17:42

is an olive branch Well, maybe he's just come around to

17:44

it thinking that it wasn't how it's

17:46

been described. He reads the

17:48

media as we know and

17:50

he's come around to thinking

17:52

that it wasn't as deeply held

17:54

racist point. It was it was as easy

17:56

explaining now, an unconscious bias in

17:58

people who've not really had to think

18:01

about this the thing before enough. It will help to

18:03

soften things, but I know people over

18:05

here would be thinking, why didn't you

18:07

point this out

18:08

before? I will say to that point, why didn't he

18:10

say something? Well, that's the very thing he's criticizing the

18:12

family for never doing with anything that's

18:14

come out, a negative about them.

18:17

Nobody's ever corrected the press.

18:19

And so he kinda let it play out the

18:21

way he's seen so many other

18:23

things play play out for them in the press.

18:26

Silences betrayal. That's what he

18:28

said. Right? Silence is betrayal. You see

18:30

the pain. You see the

18:32

anger with Harry. Regarding Harry's feelings toward

18:34

the press. I think there is no doubt

18:36

when you watch these interviews, when you read

18:38

spare, how angry

18:40

he is with the

18:43

media treatment, obviously of his mother,

18:45

her death, and all the ways that was

18:47

tied up in the press. And

18:49

then, of course, through to his wife,

18:51

to his marriage, to Meghan, I have

18:53

to say, Simon, you and I have been at

18:56

people for long enough to

18:58

remember when in fact we were

19:00

chronicling Harry's Drug Use,

19:03

and Harry's Nazi costume,

19:05

and Harry's bill yards

19:08

in Vegas as the years progressed, I

19:10

mean, the culture has evolved and

19:12

changed. But also, what we

19:14

weren't in the press and I feel this

19:16

very much about something like the strict

19:18

billiards. You know, there wasn't this the

19:20

the appropriate context around a

19:22

young man who

19:24

was hurting. Right? Who was

19:26

truly traumatized by his mother's

19:28

death and listing in in the

19:30

military, facing down the prospect of

19:32

being in combat. Is there anything from

19:34

that time, Simon, you look back at and

19:36

think, I wish we'd done that differently? I

19:38

mean, he clearly was

19:41

struggling all the way through his

19:43

teen and early twenties life

19:45

that when he became a young man and was

19:47

clearly living out his life in more public

19:50

way. I think a lot of people would have now

19:52

knowing what they know may have approached

19:54

things differently. I don't think we

19:56

ever covered him in a nasty

19:59

way. But maybe there would have been more understanding about

20:01

the situation. But in terms of

20:03

his tour and how he's looking on

20:05

these interviews and very publicly out there

20:07

promoting his book, he does switch

20:09

from being sometimes eased

20:12

with his decision and his happiness that

20:14

he's made and a new life in the sunshine

20:16

of California with a lovely one

20:18

wife and two lovely children. But

20:20

at the same time, it looks like

20:22

he's lost something. He lost a life

20:25

close to his family. He's missing that. He's

20:27

missing some of those family gatherings. Which

20:29

would be completely normal and natural that he

20:31

loved those moments being around his wide

20:33

extended family. And you do see that

20:35

sort of conflict in in his eyes,

20:37

sometimes in his mistfallness at

20:39

the very least. So Aaron,

20:41

you in fact have your own

20:44

interview with Prince Harry for People

20:46

Magazine this week. It's our cover story.

20:48

Can you please tell us a little bit about

20:50

what our readers can expect to find in that

20:52

interview. He also Harry really goes

20:55

into even more depth about his

20:57

decision to his

20:59

his life story in such a

21:01

revealing way and spare. And

21:03

he also used this opportunity

21:06

to really clarify and shed light on on

21:08

the global reaction and response

21:11

to a lot of the portions of

21:13

the book that were leaked and things

21:15

that were mentioned in his his recent

21:18

interviews and things he obviously

21:20

must set the record straight on.

21:22

And really goes in in-depth

21:25

into where he is today and what

21:27

he's looking to for the

21:29

future. Some things that people really haven't heard from

21:31

him up until this point,

21:33

including, we can choose one fun

21:35

surprise when you say I wanna

21:37

let's say that this is a really

21:39

a glimpse into his American life. Yes.

21:41

Definitely. And how he's adjusted? So

21:43

it's a yeah. Fun little

21:45

surprise, Andy. So So this interview will come

21:48

out tomorrow, Tuesday,

21:50

seven AM on people dot com, and

21:52

then the full interview and

21:54

cover story will be on

21:56

who stands this Friday. Fantastic. Well,

21:58

Simon and Erin, thank you both

22:01

so much for breaking

22:03

all of this down with

22:05

us. We really appreciate it. You're

22:07

welcome. It's been fun. Last

22:13

really not least. I thought I'd leave you all with one

22:15

of the lighter, really sweet

22:18

stories coming out of spare. This

22:20

is a story about the time Queen Elizabeth

22:22

met Archie and his sister

22:24

Lily Bet, and why her majesty

22:26

was so surprised. As

22:29

you all know, last year, Queen Elizabeth celebrated

22:31

her platinum jubilee and it was a

22:33

huge, huge party across the United Kingdom

22:35

and and really around the world.

22:38

And in addition to all of the planned public

22:41

celebrations, Queen Elizabeth had a

22:43

special moment. She and

22:45

her grandson Prince Harry

22:47

had both been looking forward to for a very

22:49

long time. And that

22:51

was the Queen meeting both

22:53

of her great grandchildren from

22:55

Meghan and Harry, Archie and Elizabeth,

22:58

for the first time. Because of the

23:00

pandemic and the fact that, of course,

23:02

Harry and Meghan no longer live in

23:04

the UK, The queen wasn't able to

23:06

meet those two great grandchildren until

23:08

they came together to celebrate

23:10

her seventy years on the throne. Harry

23:12

paints this picture for us in the book,

23:15

sharing that his son Archie

23:17

made these big sweeping

23:19

vows toward his great

23:21

granny, the queen, while

23:23

Archie's sister, baby

23:25

Lilavat, cuddles her great

23:27

granny's legs. And as Carrie

23:29

recalls, Queen Elizabeth sort

23:31

of playfully says, oh, there's

23:33

such sweet children. And

23:36

Harry's feeling is that his

23:38

grandmother perhaps expected them

23:40

to be more American because these are

23:42

after all her American great

23:44

grandchildren And by that, what Harry interprets

23:46

that to mean is a little bit more

23:48

loud and rambunctious than this

23:50

sort of stiff upper left British

23:53

demeanor. Although I'm not sure about British toddlers being

23:55

anywhere stiff upper lip than American

23:57

toddlers. But apparently, that's how

23:59

Harry felt and interpreted his

24:01

grandma's surprise. Harry

24:03

then goes on to talk about how

24:05

much it really meant to him to

24:07

see his children and his

24:09

beloved grandmother together. And

24:11

as our audience knows, Carrie

24:13

has often talked about how

24:15

close he and his granny were

24:17

on this special they shared. And he was really so

24:20

thankful to see her warmth and humor

24:22

on display with his own two

24:24

children. Well, I can

24:26

only imagine what else we're going to learn

24:28

about the royal family when we get

24:30

our hands on a copy of

24:32

spare at last tomorrow. our

24:35

show for today. I had so

24:37

much fun being with you

24:39

all. Thanks for letting me be a part of your day.

24:41

Janine will be back with you tomorrow

24:43

for your Tuesday edition of people every day.

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