Queen Camilla set to be presented as Prince Harry’s ‘wicked stepmother’ in new controversial Channel 4 documentary
Channel 4 is reportedly set to air a documentary about Queen Camilla – which paints the royal in a negative light.
According to the Sun, the film – said to be titled Camilla: Harry’s ‘Wicked’ Stepmother? – will portray the 77-year-old as the ‘wicked mother’ of Prince Harry, 40.
In addition, the outlet reports, it will claim that not only did Camilla spend some three-decades creating a positive image, but that the late Queen Elizabeth II never wanted her to sit on the throne.
According to unnamed sources, the documentary’s broadcast was delayed after King Charles revealed his cancer diagnosis.
Because of his illness, it was feared the anti-Camilla documentary could have caused a backlash, the sources are reported as saying.
According to reports, a Channel 4 documentary which portrays Queen Camilla (pictured, left) as Prince Harry’s (pictured, right) ‘wicked stepmother’ will ‘air within weeks’ (both pictured at Buckingham Palace in June 2012)
Now, it is set to be broadcast ‘within weeks’.
According to one of the sources: ‘This is very much a pro-Harry, anti-Camilla documentary.
‘It presents him and Meghan as victims of the family’s unkindness.’
They added that Channel 4 is aware that the documentary is ‘going to cause serious waves’, and that many people, particularly at Buckingham Palace, ‘aren’t going to like it’.
Reports claim that documentary producers reached out to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to contribute.
MailOnline has reached out to representatives of the couple for comment.
A Channel 4 spokesperson told MailOnline that the documentary ‘will be looking at Camilla’s biography and background as she is now the queen’.
They added: ‘It is yet to be scheduled.’
A Channel 4 spokesperson told told MailOnline that the documentary ‘will be looking at Camilla’s biography and background as she is now the queen’ (pictured: Queen Camilla in Edinburgh in September 2024)
The documentary follows Prince Harry’s memoir Spare, in which he claimed he and his brother Prince William begged their father not to marry Camilla, adding that he wondered whether she would become his ‘wicked stepmother’.
Speaking in an interview with Anderson Cooper, in January 2023, promoting the book, Prince Harry described Camilla as ‘dangerous’ and a ‘villain’.
He said: ‘She was the villain, she was a third person in the marriage, she needed 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 information and with a family built on hierarchy, and with her on the way to being Queen Consort, there was going to be people or bodies left in the street because of that.’
However, hours later, Prince Harry told Good Morning America that he does not view Queen Camilla as an ‘evil stepmother’.
Prince Harry took aim at his father’s wife Camilla in a TV interview to promote his memoir Spare, with CBS’ 60 Minutes in the US in January 2023
In his third television interview, he said: ‘I have a huge amount of compassion for her, you know, being the third person within my parents’ marriage. She had a reputation, or an image, to rehabilitate.
‘Whatever conversations happened, whatever deals or trading was made right at the beginning, she was led to believe that that would be the best way of doing it.’
Asked about what his relationship with Camilla is like now, Harry said: ‘We haven’t spoken for a long time. I love every member of my family, despite the differences, so when I see her we’re perfectly pleasant with each other.
‘She’s my stepmother. I don’t look at her as an evil stepmother. I see someone who married into this institution and has done everything that she can to improve her own reputation and her own image for her own sake.’
MailOnline has contacted Buckingham Palace for comment on the upcoming documentary.
