PRINCE Harry “wanted to rock the boat” with his Oprah Winfrey interview, a royal author claims.
Ingrid Seward said the Duke of Sussex “knew what he was doing” when he and Meghan Markle did the televised tell-all chat, but he “doesn’t regret it for one minute”.
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Seward told Page Six: “He knew what he was doing. I can swear to you that, and he wanted to rock that boat.
“Quite why, I don’t understand, but he did want to. And then he did, and I don’t think he’s surprised by the repercussions or that he regrets it for a moment.”
During the conversation with Oprah, the couple made a series of shocking allegations – most damagingly of all that an unnamed member of the Royal Family had made a racist comment about the colour of son Archie’s skin.
The Duchess also said she was prevented from seeking mental health support when she was in crisis.
She even said she felt suicidal while pregnant with Archie.
Harry said his relationship with his brother was “space” and claimed his family were “trapped” by their royal duties.
And he said his father Charles stopped taking his calls after Megxit and he was financially cut off by the Royal Family last year.
It sent shockwaves through the Firm, with family members allegedly feeling “disappointed” and “let down” by the couple.
But royal commentator Seward, also the editor-in-chief of Majesty Magazine, said she finds it “difficult to understand” Meghan’s claims about not receiving help for her mental health.
“What she was trying to tell us there? You don’t go to the HR department in the UK,” she said.
“You go and see a doctor, or you say to your husband, ‘Darling, I feel dreadful, I need you to find someone’.
“Harry was in therapy himself, so he must have known people.”
Seward claims Meghan struggled as a royal because “she has always had a voice and I think she just didn’t understand that as a royal duchess, you can’t have a voice”.
But she blames Harry for not explaining “the ordinary things about being a royal”.
