Prince Harry set for fresh media blitz in America to promote his ‘Spare’ memoir after Netflix series

We’ve had the Oprah show and the six-part Netflix series – now Prince Harry is taking part in yet another tell-all interview as he launches the publicity blitz for his explosive new memoir. 

It’s feared he will take aim again at the Royal Family in what The Mail on Sunday understands will be a wide-ranging interview with leading US television anchor Anderson Cooper days before the book is launched. 

The 38-year-old Prince will be promoting his autobiography Spare, which the publishers claim will be a ‘landmark publication’ telling his story with ‘raw, unflinching honesty’. 

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. 

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Prince Harry is taking part in yet another tell-all interview as he launches the publicity blitz for his ‘tell-all’ memoir Spare

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. 

Publishers claim it will be a ‘landmark publication’ as he tells his story with ‘raw, unflinching honesty’

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.’ 

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The interview is expected to be broadcast on Mr Cooper’s 60 Minutes show on TV network CBS on Sunday, January 8

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.’ 

Representatives for the Duke of Sussex could not be reached for comment last night.