British journalist slams Prince Harry making Netflix 'infomercial', memoir to 'sell out' family
Tina Brown accused Prince Harry of 'rewriting history' and profiting off of his royal family in a memoir and a Netflix documentary.
Prince Harry was blasted by a British journalist on Monday for "selling out" his own family "for money" after he attacked the royal family in several media interviews this past week while promoting his new memoir.
CBS royal contributor Tina Brown accused Prince Harry of "gaslighting" the media in how the royal family had treated himself and wife Meghan Markle.
She said he was "selling out" and "rewriting history" in how he and brother William's relationship soured.
"The fact is that here he is like selling out his family for money essentially, when he’s talked so often about the agony of being betrayed," Brown said on "CBS Mornings."
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The journalist recalled how Harry had been happy to have his reputation saved by the royal family "when it suited him."
"He also, you know – he was quite happy to have the palace spin on his behalf when it suited him. Because as he describes, you know, he was doing a tremendous amount of drugs, he was totally out of hand. You know, he was really out of control. And yet the palace had to go out and sort of clean up after him, spin and kill stories and make things go away. They were always doing that for Harry. So he doesn’t acknowledge that there’s a two-way street here," she stated to host Gayle King.
CBS royal contributor Tina Brown slammed Prince Harry for 'selling out' the royal family in media interviews and Netflix 'infomercial' (CBS/Screenshot)
When King offered that the prince had claimed to try to work things out privately with his family before going to the media, Brown said Harry had never given any "concrete examples" of that happening.
Brown acknowledged that his upcoming memoir, "Spare," could be filled with these examples and if that was the case, it would be "horrific and wrong."
But she said Harry and Meghan's Netflix "infomercial" didn't help their image or message.
"I’m not suggesting that the palace haven’t done their own, you know, evil work in leaking and planting. I’m sure they have. They all do. But frankly, you know, the last Netflix documentary they did was a six-part infomercial for themselves, it was all their version," she said.
Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Courtesy of Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex. (Netflix)
The Netflix documentary "Harry & Meghan" premiered on the streaming service last month and was panned by royal experts and British journalists.
British journalists ripped Netflix trailers ahead of the series premiere which they said were full of "misleading footage" and "lies."
In a poll, almost half of the British public said that Harry's royal title, the Duke of Sussex, should be stripped from him, after the controversial Netflix documentary was released.
Brown bristled at the idea that Harry's side of the royal feud hasn't been told. "It's been nothing but his story! We’ve actually not heard their story at all and we still haven’t," she added.