Prince Harry hopes any reconciliation he has with his father and older brother will have a "ripple effect across the entire world".
The Duke of Sussex has been estranged from King Charles and Prince William since he and wife Meghan Markle quit as senior royals and upped sticks from the UK to move to the US.
In an interview broadcast tonight on ITV to promote his tell-all memoir Spare, Harry reveals how he would like to have his father and brother back in his life.
But interviewer Tom Bradby quizzed him on if this is likely given Harry dishes on extremely private moments in his book.
He asked Harry: "Do you still think there is any realistic chance of a reconciliation that you have so clearly articulated that you want?
And he replied: "100 per cent. I genuinely believe that and I hope that when it gets to that stage when there can be a constructive conversation, that again I have tried, I have spent a lot of money through legal trying to find some form of reconciliation, and it almost feels as though this status quo internally they feel as though it's better to keep us somehow as the villains as opposed to, I genuinely believe, and I hope, that reconciliation between my family and us will have a ripple effect across the entire world.
"Maybe that’s lofty, maybe that’s naïve, whatever. But I genuinely feel that.
"And knowing the monarchy as I know it from something that I was brought up in, for me it's always been about uniting people."
Harry was also asked how his brother William would react to his airing of private conversations in public, he responded: "He’d probably say all sorts of different things.
“But you know, for the last however many years, let’s just focus on the last six years, the level of planting and leaking from other members of the family means that in my mind they have written countless books – certainly millions of words have been dedicated to trying to trash my wife and myself to the point of where I had to leave my country.
“The distorted narrative is that we wanted to leave to go and make money.”
The interview on ITV tonight is the first of four primetime interviews about his controversial memoir ahead of the book’s launch.
The duke has also spoken to Anderson Cooper for 60 Minutes on CBS News on Sunday night, Michael Strahan of Good Morning America on Monday and Stephen Colbert on the Late Show on CBS on Wednesday morning UK time.
In the interview with Bradby, Harry also speaks about being unable to show any emotion when meeting mourners following the death of his mother in 1997.
He also admits to feeling “some guilt” when walking among the crowds gathered outside Kensington Palace, saying the only time he cried was at his mother’s burial.
A string of revelations has already been leaked from the memoir, Spare, which is due to be published on Tuesday.
Harry has come under fire for some of the claims in the book, including that William physically attacked him and called his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, “difficult” and “abrasive”, as reported by the Guardian.
The Sun has reported that as well as the first alleged physical attack by his brother in 2019, Harry also claims that a “steaming” and “shouting” William grabbed his shirt as the pair held peace talks with their father in the gardens of Frogmore Cottage in 2021.
Harry: The Interview is available to view on ITVX. Spare published by Penguin Random House will be available to buy in the UK on January 10.
