“DID KING SNUB ITV BECAUSE OF HARRY INTERVIEW?”

THE decision to hand the job of producing The King’s Christmas speech to the BBC instead of ITV could be linked to the ongoing feud with Prince Harry, it was claimed today.
Rafe Heydel-Mankoo said there was a sense of mystery around why ITV weren’t given the job – despite it being their turn to handle the broadcast.
Broadcasters are on a rolling-rota, and 2022 was ITV’s slot to oversee production of the historic broadcast.
Speaking to GB News today, the Royal expert questioned whether the decision to hand control to the BBC could be down to the fact he knew son Prince Harry had sat down with ITV’s Tom Bradby to give an explosive new interview.
Trailers for that interview, which were shown for the first time yesterday, see Harry reveal how he desperately wants his father and brother back.
His plea comes ahead of the release of memoir Spare, which comes out next week.
Rafe told GB News’ Isabel Webster and Martin Daubney: “ITV was supposed to produce The King’s Christmas speech this year and for mysterious reasons the Palace handed it over to the BBC…could it be because of this interview?’
“No explanation was given as to why ITV lost the commission to produce the king’s Christmas speech. Could it be because of this interview? We can only speculate…”
Commenting on the tactics Prince Harry is adopting he continued: “He says he wants to have his father and his brother back. I don’t know what charm school he’s been to. But I think if you did go to one, How to Win Friends and Influence People wasn’t on his reading list.
“His memoir, the Netflix documentary. I mean, the reality is, we saw the King deliver that wonderfully warm speech in which he named check Harry and Megan building their lives overseas. We saw his brother Prince William, the Prince of Wales and the Princess of Wales, extending an olive branch after the Queen died by inviting them to join them as Fab Four once again to view the flowers laid at Windsor Castle for their grandmother. And what was their response to these two olive branches?
“There was a hope that there might be a perfect chance for reconciliation, the death of a family member bringing people closer together, the accession of the King setting their minds to something more important than their California grievances. Instead, they launched a nuclear strike on the royal family with a Netflix documentary, and it seems now as if we’re going to get another nuclear strike, albeit this one targeted more specifically on Prince William and Kate and perhaps on Camilla.”