Why Prince Harry and Meghan Markle has not given up on their Royal ranks?

• Prince Harry was interviewed by Anderson Cooper about his life.
• The Duke of Sussex’s memoir is being promoted by Cooper.
• The interview aired Sunday night in the UK and Monday on ITV.

Prince Harry was asked a hard question by Anderson Cooper about his current life since quitting the royal family.

Cooper mentioned that Harry and his wife Meghan Markle stepped down from their senior royal roles in January 2020 and moved to North America, then signed a deal with Netflix and gave a tell-all interview to Oprah Winfrey months later, in an interview that was broadcast on CBS’ 60 Minutes on Sunday to promote the Duke of Sussex’s memoir, Spare. Cooper questioned why the couple has continued to utilize the royal titles of Duke and Duchess of Sussex that Queen Elizabeth bestowed upon them on their wedding day in 2018.

“Why not renounce your titles as Duke and Duchess?” Cooper, 55, asked.

Harry, 38, replied: “And what difference would that make?”

“One of the criticisms that you’ve received is that okay, 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? You say you tried to do this privately,” the Anderson Cooper 360 host said.

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“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,’ ” Harry said of the adage. “But it’s just a motto. And it doesn’t really hold.”

In his first television interview about Spare, which also aired Sunday night in the UK on ITV, Prince Harry referred to the proverb when discussing his ties with his family.

Journalist Tom Bradby questioned the prince in Harry: The Interview about his justification for disclosing family secrets. Harry responded, “Well, there’s been a motto, a family motto, of ‘never complain, never explain.’ 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.”

“We’re six years into it now and I have spent every single year of those six doing everything I can privately to get through to my family. And the thing that is the saddest about this, Tom, is it never needed to be this way. It never needed to get to this point,” he said. “I’ve had conversations, I’ve written letters, I’ve written emails, and everything is just, no, you, this is not what’s happening. You are imagining it.’ And that’s really hard to take.”

“And if it had stopped by the point that I fled my home country with my wife and my son fearing for our lives, then maybe this would’ve turned out differently,” he said.

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