Prince Harry Recalls a Moment of Heartbreak and Betrayal. Prince Harry has opened up about a heartbreaking moment when he felt betrayed, ev…
Prince Harry Recalls a Moment of Heartbreak and Betrayal. Prince Harry has opened up about a heartbreaking moment when he felt betrayed, even as his brother, Prince William, finally stood by his side. The Duke of Sussex recounted an incident that left him devastated, as he sought support from his brother.
In his memoir Spare, Harry described how a seven-page newspaper article accusing him of substance abuse shattered him. The article, published in January 2002, made front-page news under the headline Harry’s Drugs Shame. Harry branded the article as “lies,” explaining that it not only portrayed him as a habitual drug user but also falsely claimed he had recently been to rehab. “Rehab!” Harry emphasized.
Harry also revealed that the editor had obtained photos of him and his friend Marko visiting a suburban rehab center months earlier. He explained that the visit was “a typical part of my princely charitable work,” but the journalist had repurposed the photos to support her libelous fiction.
The dismayed prince recounted, “I gazed at the photos and read the story in shock.” He continued, “I felt sickened, horrified. I imagined everyone, all my countrymen and countrywomen, reading these things, believing them.” Harry expressed that he could almost hear people across the Commonwealth gossiping about him.
He then revealed his suspicion that his father, Charles, and stepmother, Camilla, might have been involved in the story, leaving him “heartbroken at the idea that this had been partly the work of my own family, my own father and future stepmother.”
Harry pondered how they could have “abetted this nonsense. For what? To make their own lives a bit easier?” He then detailed how he “phoned Willy. I couldn’t speak. He couldn’t either. He was sympathetic, and more.”
Harry elaborated on their conversation, adding, “At moments he was even angrier about the whole thing than I was, because he was privy to more details about the spin doctor and the backroom dealings that had led to this public sacrifice of the Spare.”
However, Harry admitted that William also downplayed his distress, telling him that nothing could change what had happened. “And yet, in the same breath, he assured me that there was nothing to be done. This was Pa. This was Camilla. This was royal life,” Harry recounted.
Since then, the brothers have become embroiled in a bitter feud and are thought to have not spoken for months, possibly even years.
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