Prince Harry has made clear that he and his wife Meghan Markle have no plans to give up their royal titles — even though he accepts he will never return to the UK or life as a working royal.
The 38-year-old prince was asked on “60 Minutes” about accusations that he and his wife were still cashing in on their titles while making millions trashing the family he got them from.
“Why not renounce your titles as Duke and Duchess [of Sussex]?” Anderson Cooper asked Harry in the interview promoting the prince’s revelatory memoir, “Spare.”
“And what difference would that make?” Harry replied sniffly, sidestepping the accusations that he is cashing in and ignoring polls that show the majority of Brits want the titles removed.
Cooper did not press him on cashing in but instead questioned why he had to be so public with his brutal attacks on his family.
“One of the criticisms that you’ve received is that OK, fine, you wanna move to California, you wanna step back from the institutional role. Why be so public? Why reveal conversations you’ve had with your father or with your brother?” Cooper asked.
Harry again claimed that he tried to have such conversations privately but “every single time” there “have been briefings and leaking and planting of stories against me and my wife.”
“You know, the family motto is, ‘Never complain, never explain.’ But it’s just a motto. And it doesn’t really hold,” Harry complained.
In a separate interview aired Monday on “Good Morning America,” Harry conceded that he will likely never leave his California mansion to return to his homeland or work as an active royal.
“I don’t think it’s ever gonna be possible,” he said.
“Even if there was an agreement or an arrangement between me and my family, there is that third party that is going to do everything they can to make sure that isn’t possible,” he said, seemingly referring to the UK press and royal PR machine that he blames for being in cahoots to attack him and his wife.
“Not stopping us from actually going back, but making it un-survivable,” he said.
“And that’s really sad because that is essentially breaking the relationship between us,” said Harry, shifting the blame from his own shocking accusations and revelations.
Asked bluntly why he doesn’t just “get out” to avoid “hypocrisy,” Harry claimed: “I can’t ever get out.”
“I’m incredibly aware of my position, and I’m incredibly grateful for the life that I’ve had and continue to live.
“But there’s no version of me being able to get out of this,” he claimed.
