Prince Harry reveals to Anderson Cooper why he, Meghan Markle stepped down as royal

Prince Harry was asked a hard question by Anderson Cooper about his current life since quitting the royal family.

Cooper mentioned that Harry and his wife Meghan Markle stepped down from their senior royal roles in January 2020 and moved to North America, then signed a deal with Netflix and gave a tell-all interview to Oprah Winfrey months later, in an interview that was broadcast on CBS' 60 Minutes on Sunday to promote the Duke of Sussex's memoir, Spare.

Cooper questioned why the couple has continued to utilise the royal titles of Duke and Duchess of Sussex that Queen Elizabeth bestowed upon them on their wedding day in 2018.

"Why not renounce your titles as Duke and Duchess?" Cooper, 55, asked.

Harry, 38, replied: "And what difference would that make?"

"One of the criticisms that you've received is that okay, fine, you wanna move to California, you wanna step back from the institutional role. Why be so public? Why reveal conversations you've had with your father or with your brother? You say you tried to do this privately," the 60 Minutes correspondent said.

"And every single time I've tried to do it privately there have been briefings and leakings and planting of stories against me and my wife. You know, the family motto is 'never complain, never explain,' " Harry said of the aphorism. "But it's just a motto. And it doesn't really hold."