Prince Harry and the King still ‘don’t speak much’ partly due to Charles’ ‘disappointment’ at Duke’s depiction of Queen Camilla as ‘dangerous’ and a ‘villain’ in his memoir, insider claims
Prince Harry and the King still ‘don’t speak much’ partly due to Charles’ ‘disappointment’ at his son’s depiction of Queen Camilla in his memoir, an insider has claimed.
The relationship between Prince Harry, 39, and the Royal Family has been strained for years, after he and Meghan Markle stepped down as senior royals and moved to California.
The couple have since made a number of sensational claims about their treatment by the Palace, including in a wide-reaching interview with Oprah and in a memoir, Spare, published by Harry in January.
Though Harry since attended the coronation of his father at Westminster Abbey in May, his relationship with King Charles remains fractured – with the Royal Family not publicly noting his birthday in September.
An insider has claimed that the Duke of Sussex didn’t receive any personal well-wishes from his brother, Prince William, or his father King Charles.
In fact, they told The Telegraph: ‘Communications between the King and Prince Harry remain pretty poor. They don’t speak much, if at all.’
Prince Harry and the King still ‘don’t speak much’ partly due to Charles’ ‘disappointment’ at his son’s depiction of Queen Camilla in his memoir, an insider has claimed
The source claimed this could be due to ‘workaholic’ King Charles preferring to communicate via telephone or letter, rather than my text and WhatsApp.
However, the insider suggested another reason – Charles ‘disappointment and dismay’ at Harry’s description of Queen Camilla in his memoir, Spare.
The Duke said his stepmother is ‘dangerous’ and a ‘villain’ who left ‘bodies in the street’.
He wrote in Spare: ‘I have complex feelings about gaining a step-parent who I thought had recently sacrificed me on her personal PR altar.’
Harry also accused Charles and Camilla of ‘planting stories’ about William and his family: ‘Give Pa and Camilla an inch, he said, they take a mile.’
The latest comes as Omid Scobie, the unofficial mouthpiece for Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex, launched an astonishing attack on the Royal Family in promotional material for his new book, branding Prince William ‘power-hungry’ and King Charles ‘unpopular’.
The relationship between Prince Harry, 39, and the Royal Family has been strained for years, after he and Meghan Markle stepped down as senior royals and moved to California
Prince Charles poses with his sons Prince William and Prince Harry during the Royal Family’s ski break at Klosters in 2005
Scobie, 42, author of Finding Freedom, the 2020 bestseller about the couple, revealed the cover of his latest book Endgame this week with a breathless description on Amazon calling it ‘a penetrating investigation into the current state of the British monarchy – an unpopular king, a power-hungry heir to the throne, a queen willing to go to dangerous lengths to preserve her image and a prince forced to start a new life after being betrayed by his own family’.
A source told The Mail on Sunday: ‘I’ve been told this is bad, very bad. It is unlikely that Royal aides will comment, but if there are charges of racism, they will, of course, be robustly rebutted.’
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex famously told US TV host Oprah Winfrey that when Meghan announced her pregnancy an unnamed member of the Royal Family had questioned which skin colour their son Archie was likely to have.
The Sussexes repeatedly denied co-operating with Scobie and his co-author Carolyn Durand on Finding Freedom, but Meghan was later forced to admit in the High Court that she authorised an aide to brief the pair secretly.
Endgame, published on November 28, is likely to cause further disquiet at Buckingham Palace. It is unknown whether the Sussexes had any input this time, although the author boasts that he interviewed family members.
