{"id":4995,"date":"2025-10-04T01:16:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T01:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegloss.online\/?p=4995"},"modified":"2025-10-04T01:16:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T01:16:28","slug":"two-brothers-two-exclusive-interviews-two-strategies-two-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegloss.online\/?p=4995","title":{"rendered":"Two brothers, two exclusive interviews, two strategies, two outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Prince William talks with Eugene Levy on \u2018The Reluctant Traveler\u2019 on Apple TV+<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Note: I\u2019m going to publish a special post this weekend with more of my thoughts of the Eugene Levy interview of Prince William.<\/em><\/p>\n

As I watched Eugene Levy chat with Prince William in Windsor Castle, on a dog walk, in a pub while enjoying a pint, I was struck not only by the content but also by the impact of having his first major interview since his wife and father were diagnosed with cancer be with a 78-year-old Canadian comedian on a travel show. <\/span>The Reluctant Traveler<\/em> may be an award-winning series in its third season on Apple TV+ but it\u2019s hardly the show one would expect to feature such must-see royal watching. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Prince of Wales wasn\u2019t the only royal to appear in an exclusive interview in recent weeks. On September 14,<\/span> the Guardian published its piece<\/a> after joining Prince Harry on his latest visit to Ukraine, after four days in the U.K., during which he visited his father, King Charles III, for the first time since early 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Prince Harry and Prince William are remarkably personal and candid in how they open up to decidedly unconventional outlets. The left-wing Guardian and <\/span>The Reluctant Traveler<\/em> are decidedly unconventional outlets for such exclusives, but those outside-the-box choices produced two of the most interesting royal interviews in recent years. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Guardian interview was a risk for both sides, as it admits:<\/p>\n

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The Guardian accompanies him on the journey to the capital \u2013 something of a gamble for both sides, as Harry noted. He is suspicious of the media, and the Guardian has long been critical of the monarchy.<\/p>\n

And over the next 36 hours, we learn a lot \u2013 big and small \u2013 about this complex, conflicted man.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Prince Harry and the Guardian\u2019s journalist and photographer are together during the long train rides into and out of Ukraine as well as their time in Kyiv. The photos and bulk of the article may be of his trip to Ukraine, which was designed to promote the work of the Invictus Games Foundation and its focus on the recovery and rehabilitation of war veterans, yet the Guardian headlined their article by using Harry\u2019s answer as to whether he regrets \u201cputting his side of the story in the very public way that he has?\u201d \u201cMy conscience is clear,\u201d the prince responded. It\u2019s both attention grabbing and makes it clear that this wasn\u2019t going to be a soft read.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Eugene Levy was with Prince William for three hours, along with a crew capturing every moment for a 42-minute, highly-produced episode of his travel show. Levy told Chris Ship of ITV News that no topics were off limits and that he could ask whatever he wanted. So while there was a chat about Levy\u2019s elevation to the Companion level of the Order of Canada (Levy wears the maple leaf pin of the honour on his lapel) and that William had seen the raunchy <\/span>American Pie<\/em> movie series, there are no queries about William\u2019s relationship with his brother and sister-in-law. \u201cI had no interest in asking him about that \u2026. it was something very delicate, and not up to me to get into it,\u201d Levy told Ship, saying he wanted to talk about other things.<\/span><\/p>\n

Their PR teams would have thought long and hard before committing to the projects. For Harry, it\u2019s a way to focus on one initiative \u2014 the Invictus Games \u2013 that has escaped the controversies that have enveloped so many of his other ventures, including Sentebale, his memoir, and his lawsuits. The work that Invictus is doing in Ukraine is genuinely life changing with Harry getting a lot of credit.<\/p>\n

\u201cOrdinary people know who he is. We honestly didn\u2019t know he had become such a celebrity,\u201d Olga Rudnieva, the founder of the Superhumans trauma centre in Lviv told the Guardian. \u201cI think Prince Harry coming here is a symbol of victory and power. People look at him and his military experience and they see he is not afraid to come to Ukraine. It is so important that he came.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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