Prince Harry’s troubled relationship with Queen Camilla will be explored in new Channel 4 documentary after duke called her ‘dangerous’ and a ‘villain’ in his memoir Spare

Prince Harry and Queen Camilla’s fractured relationship will be examined in a bombshell new TV documentary about her on Channel 4, it was claimed today.

Sources claimed the programme would explore Camilla’s ‘dynamic with Harry’, although it has not yet been named and has no transmission date at this stage.

The Duke of Sussex claimed in his book Spare last January 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 – allegations that are likely to be examined in the new show.

A TV insider told The Sun: ‘Although this documentary will focus on various elements of Camilla as our new Queen, her dynamic with Harry is tackled in the new show.

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

Prince Harry speaks as Charles, Camilla and Meghan watch as they attend The Prince of Wales’s 70th Birthday Patronage Celebration held at Buckingham Palace in May 2018 

Charles, Camilla and Harry watch a flypast from the Buckingham Palace balcony in July 2005 

‘That is likely to be one of the subject areas gaining the greatest attention and these Channel 4 documentaries on the royals aren’t afraid to go where other profiles often fear to tread. 

‘These shows have proved in the past they can spark a chain reaction that lead to further revelations and create major controversy.’

The documentary is separate to another that Camilla will star in on domestic and sexual abuse which is being made by the production company Love Monday and has seen Her Majesty being followed by a film crew at several recent events.

In Spare, 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 King Charles III, then Prince Charles, not to marry Camilla because they feared she would become their ‘wicked stepmother’.

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.

Charles with Camilla in front of William and Harry as they leave a service to mark the diamond wedding anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II and Philip at Westminster Abbey in November 2017

Harry watches Charles and Camilla during their wedding blessing at Windsor Castle in 2005

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. 

(From rear, left to right) Harry, Meghan, William, Kate, Charles, Camilla and Queen Elizabeth II during the Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey in London on March 9, 2020

Meghan’s mother Doria Ragland with Charles and Camilla after the royal wedding in May 2018

‘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.’ ‘

It comes after Channel 4 documentary Diana: The Truth Behind The Interview in October 2020 looked at allegations that Martin Bashir used forged bank statements to convince Princess Diana to carry out her famous interview with Panorama in 1995.

This prompted an investigation which found in May 2021 that the BBC fell short of ‘high standards of integrity and transparency’ and Mr Bashir acted in a ‘deceitful’ way. It also found an internal probe by the BBC in 1996 was ‘woefully ineffective’.

MailOnline has contacted Channel 4 for comment on the new Camilla programme.