Palace Responds To Requests For Comment On Prince Harry's TV Interviews By Issuing 'Demand'

Buckingham Palace reportedly wanted to see full transcripts of Prince Harry's TV interviews before they aired before it would consider responding to his claims.

The palace has not yet issued a statement regarding Prince Harry's memoir "Spare" or television interviews.

However, "60 Minutes" and "Good Morning America" both shared the response they received when they reached out to the palace for comment before their interviews with the Duke of Sussex aired Sunday and Monday, respectively.

Both programs said representatives for the British royal family demanded to see full transcripts of Prince Harry's interviews, but neither "60 Minutes" nor "Good Morning America" agreed to the palace's terms, citing journalistic ethics.

At the end of his interview with Prince Harry for "60 Minutes" Sunday, Anderson Cooper said, "We reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment. Its representatives demanded before considering responding, '60 Minutes' provided them with our report prior to airing it tonight, which is something we never do."

Michael Strahan shared a similar statement Monday when his interview with Prince Harry aired on "GMA."

"We received a response from the law firm representing Buckingham Palace this morning, while we were on the air, saying that the palace needed to 'consider exactly what is said in the interview, in the context in which it appears' and asked that we supply them immediately with a copy of the entire interview, which we do not do as a news organization, as a matter of our policy," he said.

In Prince Harry's interview with Cooper, the CNN anchor asked Prince Harry why he revealed the conversations he's had with his father King Charles and brother Prince William after saying that he wanted to talk to and reconcile with them privately.

"And every single time I've tried to do it privately there have been briefings and leakings and planting of stories against me and my wife. You know, the family motto is 'never complain, never explain,'" Prince Harry said of the adage, People reported. "But it's just a motto. And it doesn't really hold."

The Invictus Games founder echoed the same sentiment in his interview with journalist Tom Bradby Sunday night when asked how he would justify sharing family secrets.

"Well, there's been a motto, a family motto, of 'never complain, never explain,'" Prince Harry said. "And what people have realized now through the Netflix documentary and numerous stories coming out over the years is that that was just a motto. There was a lot of complaining and there was a lot of explaining."

Prince Harry's book "Spare" details several bombshell claims about the royal family, including Prince William allegedly physically attacking him in 2019 over Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton allegedly feuding with the Duchess of Sussex.

"Spare" will be released Tuesday.