Prince Harry says brother Prince William pushed him to the ground during argument with Meghan Markle in 60 Minutes interview: ‘It was a pretty nasty experience’

Prince Harry, in one 60 minutes Interviews linked to the release of his memoirs this week detailed an incident in early 2019 when tensions with Prince William escalated to the point that his brother pushed him and he cut his back when he was on a dog bowl on the floor fell.

There was already tension over Harry’s wife Meghan Markle becoming a target for British tabloids. The confrontation took place at Harry’s Cottage in Kensington Palace.

“It was a build-up of frustration, I think, on his part,” Harry told Anderson Cooper. “It was at a time when he was told certain things by people in his office. And at the same time he consumed a lot of tabloids, a lot of stories. And he had some problems that weren’t grounded in reality. And I defended my wife. And he came because of my wife – she wasn’t there at the time – but because of the things he said. I defended myself. And we moved from a room to the kitchen. And his frustrations grew and grew and grew. He yelled at me. I yelled at him. It wasn’t nice. It was not nice at all. And he snapped. And he pushed me to the ground.”

“It was a very bad experience,” he said.

Harry said he cut his back, although he didn’t notice the injury right away. Prince William apologized but asked him not to tell anyone. But Meghan saw the cut on his back.

“She says, ‘What is this?’ I was like ‘Huh, what?’ I didn’t really know what she was talking about. I looked in the mirror. I thought, ‘Oh shit.’ Well, because I’ve never seen it before,” said Harry.

It was Harry’s first interview with an American magazine ahead of Tuesday’s publication of his book, Spare. ITV interviewed him the previous Sunday and he will also be performing Good morning America and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

He claims that Buckingham Palace is responsible for the leaks to the British tabloids and compares the press there to the dragons of game of thrones.

“It all started with daily briefings against my wife with lies to the point where my wife and I had to flee from us, my country.”

Harry also described how he was in London last September for a charity event and learned that Queen Elizabeth was seriously ill. But he was not invited on a plane with other family members to visit the Queen before her death. Instead he went to Balmoral alone. But when he got there, she was already dead.

When he arrived, he says: “I walked down the hall and my aunt was there to greet me. And she asked me if I wanted to see her. I thought about it for about five seconds and I was like, “Is that a good idea?” And I was like, ‘You know what? You can do it You… you have to say goodbye.” Um, so I went upstairs, took off my coat and went in and spent some alone time with her.

“She was in her bedroom…I was very happy for her. Because she ended her life. She completed her life and her husband was waiting for her. And these two were buried together.”

He told Cooper that he hadn’t spoken to his brother or his father, King Charles, for “a while.” Asked if he could ever return to become a full-time member of the royal family, he said: “I don’t see it.”

But he said he was open to a reconciliation. His concern, he said, is that any conversation would leak to the press.

“The ball is all theirs, but you know, Meghan and I have said all along that we would apologize publicly for anything we’ve done wrong, but every time we ask that question, no one tells us.” details or something.” he said. “There needs to be a constructive conversation, a conversation that can be private and not leaked.”

At the end of the segment, Cooper said this 60 minutes reached out to the palace for comment, but they demanded to see the report before replying, “which we never do”.

The interview spanned two segments 60 minutessomething usually reserved for “large sums”.

In the first part, Harry described how he tried to come to terms with the loss of his mother, Princess Diana, in 1997. He was only 12 at the time and says for years, until he was in his 20s, he accepted that she might still be alive. In the book he wrote, “I often said to myself first thing in the morning, ‘Maybe today is the day.’ Maybe this is the day she will reappear.

“For a long time I just refused to accept that she was gone…she would never do this to us, but also share, maybe it’s all part of a plan.”

He added: “For a while, and then she would call us and we would join her.”

He said William also shared “similar thoughts” after losing her mother. But the two brothers did not have a close relationship after Diana’s death. According to Cooper, Harry wrote in the book that it was his father who informed him of his mother’s death and told him that there had been an accident and that “they tried, dear boy.” I’m afraid she didn’t. It.”

He wrote in the book, “Dad didn’t hug me. Under normal circumstances, he wasn’t good at showing emotion. But his hand fell on my knee one more time and he said, ‘It’s going to be okay.’ .”

When he was 20, Harry asked for the police report on the accident and photos of the scene. He said he then discovered that “the last thing mother saw on this earth was a flashbulb.”

“The photos showed the reflection of a group of photographers taking pictures through the window, and the reflection on the window was…they were,” Harry told Cooper.

“As children we knew the British press was part of our mother’s misery and I had a lot of anger in me which I luckily never expressed to anyone,” said Harry. “But I started drinking heavily. Because I wanted to numb the feeling or take my mind off of it like…whatever I was thinking. And I will also use drugs.”

Harry also had critical things to say about Camilla the Queen Consort. He told Cooper that he and his brother asked their father not to marry them because they “didn’t feel the need to.”

“We thought it would do more harm than good and if he was on his person now… that’s definitely enough. Why go that far if it’s not absolutely necessary? We wanted him to be happy. And we saw how happy he was with her. Then it was ‘Okay’,” he said.

But he wrote that Camilla “would be less dangerous if she were happy”. He told Cooper she was “dangerous” because she felt the need to fix her image.

“It made her dangerous because of the connections she forged within the British press,” Harry said. “And there was an open willingness on both sides to share information. And with a family built on hierarchy, and with her on her way to becoming queen, that would leave people or corpses on the streets.

The whole 60 minutes Segment is here.