Prince Harry on US television: It's good that the Queen no longer has to experience this

The death of his mother Diana, which he believed to be a "fake" for years.

The hypothermic father Charles, who couldn't bring himself to hug even when he was sad.

The loveless brother whose anger culminated in a physical attack: Anyone who thinks that there is hardly anything that Prince Harry hasn't told out of the box got the message when he interviewed Anderson Cooper on Sunday evening for the once-respectable news magazine "60 Minutes “ of the broadcaster CBS once again administered the whole package.

Thirty-eight-year-old Prince Harry leaves nothing out in his autobiography “Spare”.

He ruins the family life of the royals.

The spare wheel is overheating

The title of his book is known to reflect the semi-official term for the monarchy's "spare wheels", i.e. those who are not considered "heirs", heirs to the throne.

Later-borns like Harry, who is preceded in the line of succession to the throne after his brother William by his three children.

For this he outstrips all other royals in the public eye.

But even with Anderson Cooper's help, you can't figure out what Harry's purpose is.

No, says Harry, by his derogatory characterization of his brother (“familiar scowl”, “alarming baldness”) he meant no harm, he loves William deeply.

Even writing about his father, King Charles II, who dropped his hand on Harry's knee when he broke the news of Diana's death, Harry doesn't seem to find it a shockingly personal portrayal of the most difficult moment in the life of the Family.

All of this serves, as the Sussexes justify their revelations, the "truth".

Together with his wife Meghan, Harry sat on Oprah Winfrey's confessional sofa in 2021 to denounce the couple's rift with the Windsor house over Meghan's portrayal in the British press.

Recently, the two shared the most intimate details of their relationship with the palace in a six-part Netflix selfie, reportedly for around $100 million.

In "Spare" Harry is not stingy with comments that the supposedly hated gossip press licks their fingers for.

He thought his mother's death was staged

Much of the conversation revolves around the crippling grief that gripped Harry after his mother's death.

For years he dared to believe that his mother had wanted to avoid publicity with a staged death.

His thoughts revolved around "inconsistencies" in the police investigation into his mother's fatal car accident in 2006. His ten years in the military and serving in Afghanistan "saved him," Harry says, because he was finally out of the spotlight and among his peers.

Of course, Harry also made headlines with statements about this phase of life, because he boasts of having killed 25 Taliban, who appeared to him "in the heat of the moment not as people, but as chess pieces that were swept off the board".

Anderson Cooper doesn't ask for it.

But the dog is buried at such points: the prince and his wife present themselves as well-meaning do-gooders who were accused of being eaten by the Windsors of the gossip press.

However, they themselves show no respect for the life, dignity or privacy of others.

Unless they are “victims” of social injustice, which the Sussexes support as “allies” in the media.

It would have been Cooper's job to point out this contradiction, to make it an issue.

But they seem to have agreed on how the conversation should go.

"Why the revelation of conversations with your father and brother?" Cooper asks at one point, but it's just a hint.

Shortly thereafter, Anderson seconded the prince that the royal motto “never complain, never explain” would be undermined by the palace’s “leaks” to the press, which Harry and Meghan complained about, with which the royals spread rumors and meanness.

"I, on the other hand, sit here," says Harry, "and speak the truth with the words that come out of my mouth, rather than having an anonymous source feed lies or stories to the tabloids, a tabloids that radicalizes its readership to, my family, my wife ,

There is no denying that the methods of the British tabloids are unsustainable, or that the enormous sums paid for paparazzi photos defy all standards of decency.

The question for Harry, however, must be how new - and lucratively marketed - revelations from the life of his own family are supposed to contribute to strengthening respect for the dignity of others.

Only when Harry hopes towards the end of the conversation to mend the break with his father and brother with a "constructive conversation in private" does Cooper finally dig deeper: Shouldn't they be afraid that every word of a conversation would be made public in some interview by Harry ?

They started, says Harry, and one feels like sighing: It's good that the Queen no longer has to experience it.

Once again one can marvel at the lack of reflection of a man who is no longer quite young and has enormous privileges.

But what is even more irritating is how a respected journalist makes himself the cue for a professional self-portrayal and holds the stirrup of someone who peddles his alleged suffering and that of his family members.

Anderson Cooper, one might say, has always been a kind of Oprah for intellectuals: a newsman from the best family (he is the son of Gloria Vanderbilt), who helped his channel CNN into the world of infotainment with cultivated confessions of sentiment at dramatic locations, without being reveal reputation.

Here he lost it.