CBS journalist Anderson Cooper claims Buckingham Palace officials made an urgent demand of the network before his interview with Prince Harry hit screens in the US.
The TV star led a chat with the Duke of Sussex, similar to ITV’s Tom Bradby’s interview on ITV, on Sunday night, ahead of today’s publication of his tell-all memoir, Spare.
Palace chiefs requested they be given access to the recording before it was aired, as writes the Mirror, a request which was denied.
Cooper said that the channel had “reached out” for a comment from Buckingham Palace, and he added: "Its representatives demanded that before considering responding, 60 Minutes provide them with out report prior to airing it tonight. "It's something we never do".Harry opened up in the 60 Minutes interview on the death of his mum, Princess Diana, in 1997, when he was aged just 12.He admitted he’d looked at photos from the scene of her fatal crash in a Paris tunnel.
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