Prince Harry claims he has ‘huge compassion’ for Camilla after branding her a ‘villain’

Prince Harry has taken another sensational U-turn in his attacks on the royal family, claiming he has “great compassion” for his father’s wife Camilla, less than 12 hours after he called her “dangerous” and ” villain” in a 60 Minutes interview to promote her explosive new book.

The 38-year-old’s latest comments about the queen consort, whom Spare reveals in his memoir he once thought was an ‘evil stepmother’, came in a new interview with GMA, his third pre-recorded interview in less than 24 hours. .

Speaking to presenter Michael Strahan, who asked Harry “what [Camilla] had done’ to prompt both him and his brother to ‘beg’ Charles not to marry her, the Duke of Sussex insisted that he actually sympathized with her role as the ‘third person in their parents’ marriage’ , claiming that he ‘doesn’t look at her as an evil stepmother’.

“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 Anderson Cooper of 60 Minutes last night that Camilla’s affair with Charles made her turned 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’.

Prince Harry has said he has “great compassion” for his father’s wife Camilla in a new interview with GMA, less than 12 hours after calling her “dangerous” and a “villain”.

The duke is said to have ignored pleas from his father Charles not to attack his wife in his memoirs and accompanying interviews, and Harry launched several criticisms of Camilla in his book.

However, the banter that he claims once existed between them may well be a thing of the past, after Harry launched a vicious attack on Camilla, having ignored his father’s plea not to attack his wife.

Harry told Cooper 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 he was 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.

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.

Ironically, while telling GMA that he has “compassion” for Camilla, Harry reiterated those claims that she “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 public 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 published accidentally in Spain. In the past 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’s contradictions also included his denial of previous allegations 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 tell him what his family has told him. 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.

The CBS interview came hours after a longer UK meeting with ITV, in which he told his friend Bradby his family was “complicit” in the “pain and suffering” inflicted on his wife Meghan and compared them with “abusers”. .

He suggested that they helped “smash” his and Meghan’s reputations, forcing them to move to California and have “shown no willingness to reconcile.”

Harry also said there were “a lot of stereotypes” about Meghan after she was introduced to the royal family, because she is an “American, divorced, biracial actress.” But, in an interview of contradictions, he later insisted that the royal family is not racist, despite the fact that the allegation is at the center of Oprah’s interview of the Sussexes in 2021.