Prince William got clips from an ITV documentary about Harry and Meghan

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Another sign that the British royal family is ready to fight openly against what they see as baseless allegations by supporters of Prince Harry and Meghan against them appeared in the last-minute dramatic adaptation of a British television documentary on Sunday night, reportedly at the request of the royal family. .

British terrestrial network ITV has massively cut footage of journalist Omid Scobie claiming that Prince William’s staff at Kensington Palace planted a media story questioning Prince Harry’s mental health. Scooby alleged that William’s team planted the story after Harry and Meghan’s interviews with journalist Tom Bradby in South Africa in 2019. In the course of that interview, Megan famously thanked Bradby for asking if she was OK, saying, “Not many people have” They did. He asked her that. Harry, in his interview with Bradby, confirmed that there were tensions between him and his brother, saying they are on “different paths”.

The Daily Mail reports that ITV has dropped a key phrase from an interview with Scooby, the journalist who wrote the sympathetic autobiography of the Sussex family, Finding Freedom, on The Harry and William Show: What Went Wrong?

It had previously been reported that the show featured Scooby saying: “I would say it was no coincidence that shortly after it aired, even the next day, there were quotes from the source that came from a senior aide at Kensington Palace saying William was concerned about his brother’s mental health.”

In the actual version of the show that aired last night, Scooby’s comment was deleted and the words, “about his brother’s mental health” were omitted.

The Mail says that Kensington Palace, upon seeing prior reports of Scooby’s comments on the show, “contacted producers regarding… Scooby’s suggestion that William had expressed ‘concern’ about his brother’s mental health, which the author had no evidence to support.”

The Mail adds that after “carefully considering” the request, ITV “elected to remove any reference to mental health from the sequence, although it chose to retain Mr Scobey’s comment about an alleged briefing from Kensington Palace about Harry”.

The Mail reports that Kensington Palace has hinted at legal action, telling ITV that “such a proposal, if it were part of an ITV programme, would be defamatory in that it is grossly untrue”.

The documentary itself, which premiered on ITV last night and features extensive input from The Daily Beast contributor Robert Lacey, author of the newly updated Battle of Brothers, was a comprehensive and fast-paced account of the breakdown of the relationship between Harry and Meghan and the royal family.

The Daily Beast reports that the palace is preparing to abandon its long-established principle of not complaining about press coverage it considers misleading or inaccurate.

This latest incident appears to be evidence of this new policy.

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