Prince Harry has lifted the lid on the moment he was left heartbroken and ‘horrified’ by a seven-page newspaper article accusing him of having issues with substance abuse, and how he turned to his brother for support.
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Prince Harry has revealed a heart-wrenching moment when his brother, Prince William, stood by him during a difficult time. The Duke of Sussex shared an incident that left him struggling emotionally and how he sought support from his elder sibling.
Harry has had a rocky relationship with his father, King Charles, and brother, Prince William, since stepping down from the Royal Family (Image: Tim Rooke – Pool/Getty Images)
He recounted the distress caused by a seven-page newspaper article accusing him of substance abuse issues.
In his memoir ‘Spare’, Harry detailed an event from January 2002 when he was splashed across the front page under the headline ‘Harry’s Drugs Shame’. He vehemently dismissed the article as “lies”, stating it not only portrayed him as a regular drug user but also claimed he had recently been to rehab.
Harry further explained that the editor had obtained photos of him visiting a suburban rehab centre months earlier. He clarified that the visit was part of his royal charitable work, which the journalist had ‘twisted’ and used as visual aids for her fabricated story, reports the Mirror.
The shocked prince recalled staring at the photos and reading the story in disbelief. He said: “I felt sickened, horrified, I imagined everyone, all my countrymen and countrywomen, reading these things, believing them.”
Harry also revealed that he felt as though the entire Commonwealth was gossiping about him. He further suggested that his father, Charles, and future stepmother, Camilla, may have played a role in the narrative, 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 whether they had “abetted this nonsense. For what? To make their own lives a bit easier? ” He then described how he “phoned Willy, I couldn’t speak. He couldn’t either. He was sympathetic, and more.”
Harry went on to detail the conversation, stating: “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.”
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However, Harry confessed that William also downplayed his distress, telling him nothing could alter what had transpired. He added: “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.”
The brothers have since found themselves in a bitter dispute and are believed to have not spoken for months, possibly even years.
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