In 2005, King Charles III got remarried to Queen Camilla. 18 years later in his 2023 memoir “Spare,” Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, detailed what that day was really like for him and his brother, William, Prince of Wales.
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Prince Harry wrote about his and his brother’s disdain for their father to remarry, due to how the media would use the opportunity to feverishly discuss Diana and Camilla. They begged Charles not to, but they were more understanding when it was the big day. Harry added, “In a funny way I even wanted Camilla to be happy. Maybe she’d be less dangerous if she was happy?” (via Newsweek).
King Charles and Queen Camilla’s relationship famously continued while he was married to Princess Diana. Subsequently came a media uproar that made Queen Camilla look remarkably villainous, and her methods in which she chose to repair the damaged image came at the cost of others. Prince Harry sat down with “60 Minutes” in 2023 and revisited his choice of words to describe her, elaborating on what he wrote in his book: “Because of the need for her to rehabilitate her image. … That made her dangerous because of the connections that she was forging within the British press. And there was open willingness on both sides to trade of information. And with a family built on hierarchy, and with her, on the way to being Queen consort, there was gonna be people or bodies left in the street because of that.”
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Queen Camilla was not thrilled when she found out what Prince Harry wrote about her
The choice words Prince Harry used to describe his stepmother in “Spare” got back to Queen Camilla, and let’s just say, she wasn’t jumping for joy when she found out that he made her out to be the antagonist of his book. However, she reportedly took it in stride.
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In an interview with The Sunday Times, Fiona Shelburne, the Marchioness of Lansdowne and a close friend and confidant of the queen (and the godmother of her daughter), detailed Camilla’s reaction: “Of course it bothers her, of course it hurts. But she doesn’t let it get to her. Her philosophy is always, ‘Don’t make a thing of it and it will settle down — least said, soonest mended.'”
The outlet also reported that sources claimed King Charles III wasn’t tickled by the tell-all’s treatment of Camilla either. However, “Spare” is just the tip of the iceberg. For more, check out all the details on Harry’s royal beef with Camilla.
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