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The queen consort was “astonished” by Prince Harry’s comments on his book and press tour, the sources said.
The 38-year-old Duke of Sussex has launched a series of extraordinary attacks on King Charles’s wife Camilla, including calling her “dangerous” and a “villain”, as he continues his publicity campaign for his explosive memoir Spare.
Harry, who also reveals in his book that he and William “begged” their father not to marry Camilla, accuses his stepmother of “trading information” with the press in an attempt to write more positive stories about her, before sensationally suggest that her ‘connections’ with the media would end with ‘people or bodies left on the street’.
sources said vanity fair the family was shocked and devastated by the comments, with one saying: ‘He is on a path of self-destruction. There is so much revenge. The late queen would have been absolutely devastated.
The Queen Consort was ‘astonished’ by Prince Harry’s comments on his book and press tour, sources say.
Elsewhere, insiders detailed how the duke “does not see the irony” in his behaviour, accusing him of being the one leaking private conversations to the media.
Harry has discussed, at length, his relationship with Camilla both in his book and on his publicity tour to promote it.
Harry told journalist Anderson Cooper in a CBS interview that the queen consort was happy with the bodies, including her own, “left on the street” as she tried to rehabilitate her image after her long relationship with King Charles while married to Princess Diana. .
Referring to a 1995 interview in which his mother, Princess Diana, referred to Camilla as the “third person in their marriage”, Harry said this admission made the now queen consort a “villain”, adding: “She needed to rehabilitate her image.
The 38-year-old Duke of Sussex has launched a series of extraordinary attacks on King Charles’s wife, Camilla.
According to Harry, this desire to transform her public image made her ‘dangerous’.
“That made her dangerous because of the connections she was forging within the British press,” he said.
“And there was an open willingness on both sides to exchange information and with a family built on hierarchy, and with her on her way to being queen consort, there were going to be people or bodies left on the street because of it.”
The Duke also wrote in his memoir, Spare, that Camilla “sacrificed me on her personal PR altar”, revealing that he and William asked Charles not to marry her and accused her of conspiring to marry him now. king and become queen consort.
However, in another interview, speaking with host Michael Strahan on Good Morning America, he said he feels “enormous” compassion for her.
Strahan asked Harry ‘what [Camilla] she had done’ to prompt both him and his brother to ‘beg’ Charles not to marry her. The Duke of Sussex insisted that she was actually sympathetic to her role as a “third party to her parents’ marriage”, saying that he “doesn’t see her as an evil stepmother”.
Harry, who also reveals in his book that he and William “begged” their father not to marry Camilla, accuses his stepmother of “trading information” with the press in an attempt to get more positive stories written about her.
“I have a lot of compassion for her, you know, being the third person in my parents’ marriage,” Harry told Strahan, even though he told 60 Minutes’ Anderson Cooper that Camilla’s affair with Charles turned her into a “villain”.
When asked about his relationship with Camilla today, Harry admitted that they “haven’t spoken in a long time” but added that he “loves everyone in his family” and that when he and the queen consort “see each other, we’re perfectly nice’.
Harry also doubled down on claims that Camilla ‘traded’ stories with the press to ‘rehabilitate her image’ after her affair with Charles was revealed.
“He had a reputation, or image, to rehabilitate, and any conversation, any deal or exchange that was made early on, he was led to believe that that would be the best way to do it,” he said.
He went on to suggest that Camilla was only focused on herself, saying that she “has done everything she can” to “improve her own image… for her own good.”
When asked about his relationship with Camilla today, Harry admitted that they “haven’t talked in a long time.”
Harry’s claims about feeling “pity” for his stepmother came less than 12 hours after he called her a “villain” in a pre-recorded meeting with 60 Minutes host Anderson Cooper.
It’s my stepmother. I don’t see her as an evil stepmother,” she continued. “I see her as someone who married this institution and has done everything she can to, you know, improve her own reputation and her own image. For her own good.
The duke’s sensational attack on Camilla was the latest in a series of criticisms he leveled at his stepmother, as he had painted what Cooper described as a “very unflattering portrait” of her in his explosive memoir Spare, which was accidentally published. in Spain last year. week.
But just hours earlier, in a British interview that viewers said contained several contradictions, he told ITV’s Tom Bradby that he was not “tough” on Camilla in his book.
Harry has also denied previous accusations that the royal family is racist.
Bradby was visibly stunned, as were millions of viewers, by his grating reversal of earlier incendiary claims that an anonymous royal had raised concerns about his son Archie’s skin color.
The host brought up Oprah’s 2021 interview with Meghan, saying, “You accused members of your family of racism.”
But Harry snapped back, ‘No, I didn’t. The British press said that.’
There was further disbelief when Harry told Bradby that anything he says to William in the future will remain “private,” despite using his memoir, TV interviews, a Netflix documentary, and a prime-time Oprah special to reveal what your family has told you. him and Meghan behind closed doors.
He also insisted to Cooper that he “never intended to hurt his family” with the contents of his book.
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