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Posted: 2023-01-09T17:42:46Z | Updated: 2023-01-09T17:42:46Z

Anderson Cooper and Michael Strahan each made it clear that they hadnt compromised with the demands of Buckingham Palace or its lawyers over recent interviews with Prince Harry .

After Coopers interview with the Duke of Sussex aired on CBSs 60 Minutes Sunday evening, the journalist spoke about his communications with King Charles team.

We reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment, Cooper said in a now-viral clip, now viewed over 1.3 million times on Twitter.

Its representatives demanded that before considering responding, 60 Minutes provide them with our report prior to airing it tonight, which is something we never do, Cooper said.

Strahan issued a similar statement after his sit-down with Harry aired on Good Morning America Monday. He revealed that palace lawyers contacted ABC while the interview aired that morning.

We received a response from the law firm representing Buckingham Palace this morning, while we were on the air, saying that the palace needed to consider exactly what is said in the interview, in the context in which it appears and asked that we supply them immediately with a copy of the entire interview, which we do not do as a news organization, as a matter of our policy, Strahan said.

HuffPost reached out to ITVs Tom Bradby, whose interview with Harry aired Sunday, to see if the palace also placed demands on the interviewer in order to comment.

A source close to the network told HuffPost on Monday that the palace was not shown the program before it aired. The source added that the palace was given details of its content and offered the opportunity to respond, but declined to do so on the basis of not having seen the film.

Buckingham Palace did not immediately respond to HuffPosts request for comment.

Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace, which represents Prince William and his family, previously asked to see clips before commenting on claims made in Netflixs recent Harry & Meghan docuseries.

A royal source told HuffPost that Netflix made no attempt to contact members of the royal household, but a CNN journalist later revealed that a third-party production company had reached out for comment.

The production company, Story Syndicate, later told Buzzfeed News that the Prince and Princess of Wales communication secretary had requested to see footage from the series.

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