Good morning. For most of us, our youthful indiscretions – taking drugs, being spanked in a field behind a pub by an older woman who loved horses, killing 25 members of the Taliban from a helicopter, genital frostbite – tend to stay under wraps. Prince Harry has chosen a different path. At the same time as laying his own life bare, he has made extraordinary allegations about the behaviour of his family. But he says that he still hopes they can reconcile.
After gobsmacking details from his forthcoming autobiography, Spare, leaked last week, the broadcast of two interviews in the UK and US last night offered the why: new layers of revelation, justification, trauma, and beard controversy. First Edition stayed up so you didn’t have to. First, here are the headlines.