“That’s heartbreaking,” said Mr Colbert. “I mean, to be rejected by his older brother at school even though that magic hat sorted them into the same house.”
“What do you think?” he asked his audience. “Hufflepuff? Hufflepuff? Gryffindor, I’m not sure.”
Hufflepuff and Gryffindor are houses in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series.
The clip suggests Prince Harry’s memoirs are not being taken entirely seriously by his American audience. In a separate clip Colbert said that the show was “going imperial”.
Prince Harry was accompanied to the Late Night studios on Monday night by a guard carrying a Glock lock-box with his gun and ammunition. The prince has become increasingly worried about his safety since moving to the United States.
On Monday he arrived in an SUV to meet Colbert, who said that the interview will air on Tuesday night.
“The interview will be Prince Harry’s first time visiting The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and coincides with the release date of his new memoir, Spare,” CBS announced.
“With its raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is a landmark publication full of insight, revelation, self-examination and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief,” it added.
CBS described Harry as “a husband, father, humanitarian, military veteran, mental wellness advocate and environmentalist. He resides in Santa Barbara, Calif., with his family and three dogs.”