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All the revelations from 'Spare' so far, and how to watch Harry: The Interview

Harry: The Interview on ITV1 and ITVX at 9pm on 8 January.

ITV has released a second trailer for its forthcoming interview with Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex.

The clip material includes Tom Bradby questioning Prince Harry about his decision to discuss his relationships with family members in his autobiography, Spare, which will be published on 10 January.

In a trailer for an ITV interview with Tom Bradby, Harry justified his upcoming book, Spare, in which he claimed his brother William physically attacked him.

An extract from the book, published in the Guardian newspaper, described a confrontation at his London home in 2019, where he claims the Prince of Wales grabbed Harry's collar and knocked him to the floor, ripping his necklace and shattering a dog bowl under his back.

Harry further claimed William had called his American wife Meghan "difficult", "rude" and "abrasive" - comments which the younger brother said parroted "the press narrative" about his wife.

The ITV interview is due to be broadcast two days before publication and, in a trailer, Mr Bradby asks: "Wouldn't your brother say to you, 'Harry, how could you do this to me after everything? After everything we went through?' Wouldn't that be what he would say?"

Harry replied: "He would probably say all sorts of different things."

Mr Bradby, a former royal correspondent and current presenter of ITV News at Ten, is a friend of the Sussexes and has previously interviewed them for a documentary about their 2019 Africa tour.

He told Harry: "Some people will say you've railed against invasions of your privacy all your life but the accusation will be here are you invading the privacy of your most nearest and dearest without permission, that will be the accusation."

Harry answered: "That will be the accusation from people that don't understand or don't want to believe that my family have been briefing the press."

With excerpts from the Duke of Sussex's tell-all book leaked in the run up to its publication, here are the claims and revelations so far:

Harry claims William physically attacked him

Harry writes: "(William) called me another name, then came at me. It all happened so fast. So very fast. He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor.

"I landed on the dog's bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out."

William called Meghan "difficult" and "rude"

The Guardian revealed the alleged incident took place at Harry's then home in Nottingham Cottage and that William called Meghan "difficult", "rude" and "abrasive". Harry told him he was parroting the press narrative about his wife.

The pair had physical fights when younger

Harry said William urged him to hit back, citing fights they had as children, but Harry refused and William left before returning, looking regretful and apologising.

The brothers call each other "Willy" and "Harold"

Harry writes that he gave his brother a glass of water and said: "Willy, I can't speak to you when you're like this.", while William told him "I didn't attack you, Harold."

Harry told his therapist about the fight before he told Meghan

The duke said William told him he did not need to tell "Meg" about the confrontation, but Harry writes that he told his therapist first and Meghan later noticed the scrapes and bruises on his back.

"She was terribly sad," he said of his wife's reaction.

Charles pleaded with William and Harry to stop fighting at Windsor after the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral

In a tense meeting after Philip's funeral, a grieving Charles told his sons: "Please, boys. Don't make my final years a misery."

Harry claims William and Kate encouraged him to wear the Nazi uniform

Harry sparked outrage in 2005 when he wore the uniform complete with swastika armband to a fancy dress party.

But according to US website Page Six, he claims he phoned the couple to ask them whether he should chose a pilot's uniform or a Nazi one for the fancy dress party and William and Kate said the latter, and both howled with laughter when he went home and tried it on for them.

Charles's delight at Diana giving birth to a "spare"

Harry tells how, after he was born, his father supposedly told the Princess of Wales that his son's arrival was wonderful and that now she had given him an heir and a spare, his work was done.

Both Kensington Palace and Buckingham Palace have declined to comment.

Harry: The Interview on ITV1 and ITVX at 9pm on 8 January.

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