Prince Harry ‘begged Prince Charles not to marry Camilla’, new book claims

Prince Harry has used his memoir to claim that he and William ‘begged’ Charles not to marry Camilla after Princess Diana’s death out of fear that she was his ‘evil stepmother’.

He claims that he and his brother would not get in the way of their father’s relationship, but they had asked him not to walk down the aisle a second time, calling her the “other woman.”

Charles had tried to “win over the children” before asking the public to accept Camilla, the book claims. Harry said that meeting her for the first time was like a ‘shot’: ‘she closes her eyes and you won’t even feel it,’ he said.

He said: ‘I remember wondering… if she would be cruel to me; if she were like all the wicked stepmothers in the tales.’ And he added: ‘Willy had been suspicious of the Other Woman for a long time, which confused and tormented him; When those suspicions were confirmed, he felt an agonizing remorse for not having done or said anything before.

The Duke of Sussex’s book has been published six days in advance in Spain, and reveals that he calls William his ‘archenemy’ and ‘polar opposite’ before describing the moment he was told Princess Diana was dead, according to was able to unveil MailOnline today.

The Duke of Sussex accuses his older brother of being the aggressor during the Megxit, claiming that their relationship has become so strained and damaged that the Prince of Wales would only scowl at him.

Harry reveals that he had a secret meeting with William and Charles hours after Prince Philip’s funeral in April 2021, near the tomb of King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, but said his father and brother did not hear him and claimed that they did not . understand why he had emigrated.

His attacks on William and Charles are revealed at the beginning of the Spanish version of his book ‘Spare’. There the book is called ‘En La Sombra’, which translates as ‘In the Shadow’, and it begins with the dedication: ‘To Meg, Archie and Lili… and, of course, my mother’.

The book won’t be out until Tuesday morning, but appears to have been published early abroad with various extracts leaked to the left-wing press.

MailOnline can reveal today that Chapter One picks up after Prince Philip’s funeral in April 2021, describing how he was reunited with his father and brother in the grounds of Windsor Castle, near Frogmore Cottage, where the Sussexes are staying when They are in the UK.

Harry, who calls his brother ‘Willy’ all the time, says he came to Britain to say goodbye to Prince Philip but also requested a ‘secret meeting with my older brother and father’. He also revealed that his grandmother, the Queen, called him to the US to tell him: ‘Harry…grandpa has passed away.’

The prince describes waiting near the graves of the former King Edward VIII and his wife Wallis Simpson, for whom he renounced the throne, and reflects on what they would have thought about his own falling out with his family.

But Harry says that as soon as he saw William and Charles enter the gardens, he said he knew they were there for a ‘duel’ rather than a reconciliation. He claims they interrupted him every time they tried to explain.

He wrote: “I looked at Willy, really looked at him, perhaps for the first time since we were little, taking in every detail: his familiar scowl, which had always been the norm in his dealings with me.”

He said his brother’s baldness was ‘alarming’ and ‘advanced than mine’ and said his resemblance to his mother had ‘faded’.

Describing his brother, once his best friend, as his ‘polar opposite’, he said: ‘My dear brother, my archenemy, how did we come to this? I felt an overwhelming tiredness. I wanted to go home.’

Harry then accused William and Charles of effectively criticizing him, denying that he understood why he and Meghan had left for the United States. Harry said of Frogmore Cottage: ‘Willy, this was supposed to be our house. We were going to spend the rest of our lives here.’

William replied, ‘You’re gone, Harold.’ Harry said, ‘Yes, and you know why,’ and his brother replied, ‘Honestly, no. Harold… not really.’

Harry then turned to Charles’ who was looking at me with an expression that said, ‘Me neither’.

He said he felt they didn’t know him and were ‘not in a position to listen to him’.