Prince Harry isn’t ‘up for writing another book’ after he ‘damaged his relationship with the King’ when attacking Queen Camilla in his memoir Spare, royal expert claims

Prince Harry isn’t ‘up for writing another book’ after he ‘damaged his relationship with the King’ when attacking Queen Camilla in his memoir Spare, a royal expert has claimed.

The Duke of Sussex, 39, previously revealed he has enough material to publish a second tell-all and had cut almost half of the material he’d written in a first draft for Spare.

But editor of Majesty Magazine, Ingrid Seward, told 9Honey that she believes the father-of-two isn’t working on another memoir, saying: ‘I can’t see that Harry’s up for writing another book.’

The author, whose latest book My Mother and I centres on King Charles III‘s relationship with the late Queen Elizabeth II, noted how Spare impacted the Prince’s bond with his father.

She said: ‘I think it certainly damaged his relationship with his father that he criticised his wife so openly. 

Prince Harry (pictured at an NHL hockey game in November 2023) isn’t ‘up for writing another book’ after he ‘damaged his relationship with the King’ when attacking Queen Camilla in his memoir Spare, a royal expert has claimed

‘But you know, Charles has such a busy life, there’s so much going on, I don’t think he’s holding a grudge against Harry, I just think he’s withdrawn from Harry.

Ingrid added: ‘He was very stupid to criticise Camilla, that was really stupid because he didn’t have to, it didn’t make the book any better.’

The Sussexes are said to have signed a four-book deal worth upwards of £16 million ($USD20 million) with the publishing giant Penguin Random House.

In his first book Spare, the Duke, who has been estranged from his father and brother Prince William since leaving royal life, claimed that his stepmother was leaking stories about the Royal Family to the media to bolster her image.

He also labelled her ‘dangerous’ and a ‘villain’ and claimed she had ‘sacrificed him’ to improve her reputation.  

Charles is said to have been ‘disappointed’ at his son’s depiction of Camilla in his book, according to a report by The Telegraph in November. 

In the memoir, released January 2023, Harry wrote of Camilla: ‘I have complex feelings about gaining a step-parent who I thought had recently sacrificed me on her personal PR altar.’

Harry also said that he and his brother Prince William had ‘begged’ their father, then Prince Charles, not to marry Camilla because they feared she would become their ‘wicked stepmother’.

The Duke of Sussex, 39, previously revealed he has enough material to publish a second tell-all and had cut almost half of the material he’d written in a first draft. Pictured, The King and Queen in April 2023

But editor of Majesty Magazine, Ingrid Seward, told 9Honey that she believes the father-of-two isn’t working on another memoir, saying: ‘I can’t see that Harry’s up for writing another book.’

In another blow, Harry described Camilla as ‘dangerous’ and a ‘villain’ who left ‘bodies in the street’ in her desire to change the public’s perception of her.

In a TV interview to promote the book last January with Anderson Cooper on CBS News show 60 Minutes, Harry elaborated on his claims.

The Duke said: ‘She was a third person in their [my parents’] marriage, she needed to rehabilitate her image. That made her dangerous because of the connections that she was forging within the British press.

‘Because of the connections that she was forging… there was open willingness on both sides to trade 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.’

Three months after the book’s publication in April, an aide told The Sunday Times of Camilla’s response to Harry’s claims, saying: ‘It was not stamping of feet or gnashing of teeth – it was much more of an eye-roll response.’

Camilla’s close friend Fiona Shelburne, Lady Lansdowne also told the newspaper: ‘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.”‘

Last year, meanwhile, the Duke told The Telegraph he chose to leave out several bombshells from Spare because he was concerned his father and brother would not ‘ever forgive’ him. 

Camilla speaks to Prince Harry at Buckingham Palace during Trooping the Colour in June 2015

‘The first draft was different. It was 800 pages, and now it’s down to 400 pages. It could have been two books, put it that way. And the hard bit was taking things out.

‘There are some things that have happened, especially between me and my brother, and to some extent between me and my father, that I just don’t want the world to know. Because I don’t think they would ever forgive me.’ 

Harry said he knew that including any details about intimate moments with his family would attract backlash, but ultimately decided he could not truthfully tell his story without them.

There are details, though, that he knew would cross the line. These memories were shared with ghostwriter J.R. Moehringer only for context, and did not make the final cut.