Aside from reports that the royals were in an uproar over Harry's book, Spare was officially greeted with silence from the palace.
But Harry stressed in several interviews that he wasn't interested in destroying his relationship with his family, but rather in clearing away all the cobwebs and airing the dirty laundry so that maybe they could really see what he had been through all these years. As he described, his anxiety and unresolved trauma went back decades, long before Meghan came on the scene.
“I'm not sure that honesty burns bridges,” he told ITV's Bradby in an interview on January 8. “You know, silence only enables the abuser to abuse. Is that right? So I don't know that silence will ever make things better.”
And “although I want reconciliation,” he continued, “I also want accountability. I have managed to make peace with many things that have happened during this time. But that doesn't mean I'm just going to let it go.”
Still, Harry said, he wants to be able to forgive and receive forgiveness. “I want my father back,” he said. “I want my brother back. Right now, I don't recognize them, just like they probably don't recognize me.”
He loved his family and always would, he stressed. “Nothing I have done in this book or anywhere else,” he said, “was ever [with] any intention to harm or injure them.”
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