Prince Harry claims royal staff spoonfed stories to betray him and Meghan

Prince Harry has sensationally claimed members of The Royal Household purposely leaked stories about him and Meghan Markle.

The Duke of Sussex, 38, has claimed on several occasions in recent months that members of the Royal Family and their workforces had been responsible for "planting" negative stories about the pair.

It comes as Harry is preparing to release his tell-all memoir, Spare, which details his break from The Firm, going financially independent and being "cut off" by his dad, King Charles.

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Ahead of the release, Harry sat down with CBS' Anderson Cooper to deliver a string of damming allegations against those who worked for his late grandmother, the Queen.

When Anderson explained that Harry claims he tried to step back "privately", the dad-of-two fumes: "Every time I've tried to do it privately, there have been briefings, leakings and planting of stories against me and my wife.

"The family motto is never complain, never explain – it's just a motto," before Cooper adds: "There's a lot of complaining and a lot of explaining privately done through leaks."

Harry explained: "They will feed or have a conversation with the correspondent and that correspondent will literally be spoonfed information to write the story.

"At the bottom of it, it will say they've reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment – the whole story is Buckingham Palace commenting.

"So when we're being told for the last six years 'We can't put a statement out to protect you' but you can do it for other members of the family, there becomes a point when silence is betrayal."

This isn't the first time Harry has made allegations suggesting that stories were planted against him and Meghan.

In their six-part Netflix series, the Duke claimed people were "happy to lie" in order to protect his older brother William, the Prince of Wales.

As footage of Buckingham Palace was shown, Harry said: "They were happy to lie to protect my brother. They were never willing to protect the truth to protect us," although it is not clear who he was talking about.

The former military serviceman went on to say: "I wonder what would have happened to us had we not got out when we did," before addressing "institutional gaslighting" taking place within palace walls.

Harry is to bare his soul in his memoir which was written before the death of his grandmother the Queen and has not been amended in any way.

Daily Star has approached Buckingham Palace for comment.

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