Harry will promote his memoir Spare in an interview with ITV journalist (and friend) Tom Bradby

The Duke of Sussex will promote his memoir Spare in an interview with ITV journalist Tom Bradby, it was reported last night.

Prince Harry is set to be interviewed by Mr Bradby, who has known the royal since he was a teenager, to publicise his explosive new book ahead of its publication on January 10.

The memoir, which is ghost written by JR Moehringer, is expected to be even more incendiary than his and Meghan’s Netflix series, which contained a number of bombshell allegations against the Royal Family. 

Buckingham Palace is reportedly bracing for any new ‘truth bombs’ contained in the pages of his book, which is widely believed to concentrate on his upbringing as a senior member of The Firm. 

The Duke of Sussex will promote his memoir Spare in an interview with ITV journalist Tom Bradby, it was reported last night

Bradby, who presents the ITV News at Ten, got to know William and Harry when he was a royal correspondent in the 1990s. He did the first official interview with William and Kate when they became engaged in 2010, and famously asked Meghan on the South African tour about her mental health.

The Duchess then replied: ‘Thank you for asking, because not many people have asked if I’m OK. But it’s a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes’. 

The memoir, which is ghost written by JR Moehringer, is expected to be even more incendiary than his and Meghan’s Netflix series , which contained a number of bombshell allegations against the Royal Family

Representatives for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been approached for comment. 

It follows reports that Harry is taking part in yet another tell-all interview with leading US television anchor Anderson Cooper days before his explosive new memoir is launched.

The interview is expected to be broadcast on Mr Cooper’s 60 Minutes show on TV network CBS on Sunday, January 8, two days before the memoir is released in bookshops.

Mr Cooper, 55 – who is also a star of the CNN network – has campaigned to promote better mental health and hosts a podcast called All There Is. He has spoken about losing his brother Carter to suicide. The 23-year-old fell to his death from the family’s 14th-floor Manhattan apartment in 1988. 

Mr Cooper also has war experience, having reported from Afghanistan, where Harry completed two tours of duty.

A television source said: ‘Mr Cooper has won Harry’s trust. This would be a coup for Mr Cooper and fits well with Harry’s campaign to promote mental health. It is a prime-time Sunday show which hosts foreign leaders and presidents. It’s the one that all the politicians and decision-makers watch.’ 

Recently 60 Minutes featured exclusive interviews with US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron.

Bradby, who presents the ITV News at Ten, got to know William and Harry when he was a royal correspondent in the 1990s

In 2020 Mr Cooper interviewed Afua Hirsch, the British author and former Guardian journalist who features in the Sussexes’ Netflix programme, and who made a damning verdict on the Commonwealth as ‘Empire 2.0’.

In the discussion with Mr Cooper after Harry and Meghan announced they were leaving their Royal duties, Ms Hirsch described the Royal Family as ‘Ground Zero for Britain’s troubled history of colonialism and race’.

She added that she was ‘always concerned about Meghan Markle’s wellbeing’ when joining the Royal family. 

Appearing sympathetic to the couple’s plight, Mr Cooper told Ms Hirsch: ‘The notion of being hounded by the press is going to have such strange, weird echoes for Prince Harry given what happened to his mom.’

Mr Cooper has also joked about getting a wave from Prince Harry during his wedding to Meghan in May 2018. He told viewers: ‘I was at the Royal Wedding, covering it for CNN.

‘Our correspondent Max Foster said, ‘You should wave at Harry because Harry is going to look up at the bright lights and I bet he’ll wave at you.’ The carriage makes a turn. I start waving. Harry looks up at the tower, we make eye contact and he waves. I almost died.’