“Think you know Prince Harry’s story? Think again,” says US journalist Anderson Cooper in the opening credits of his 60 Minutes interview with the runaway royal. It aired on CBS in the US last night, part of Prince Harry’s media blitz ahead of the publication of his memoir — Spare — which publishes on January 10.
It’s hard not to scoff a little, given that it feels like we hit peak ‘bombshell revelation’ at some point around the frostbitten penis — still, what emerges as they get chatting is, on the one hand, a moving portrayal of a man cowed by the trauma of losing his mother as a child. And on the other, a snapshot of family dysfunction, played out on the world stage.
