Friends of Queen Consort Camilla have denied her stepson Prince Harry’s “unfair” claims in “Spare” that she fed detrimental tales to the press about him as a part of a media marketing campaign to assist her marry into the royal household, saying the “last thing she could care about is being queen.”
“All Camilla ever did was have the bad luck to fall in love with a prince,” a confidant exclusively told the Daily Beast of Camilla, 75, who married King Charles, 74, in 2005 after the general public scandal of their affair within the Nineties led to his disastrous divorce from Harry’s mom, Princess Diana.
Harry, who beforehand prevented discussing his stepmother in his and Meghan Markle’s notorious Oprah interview and Netflix docuseries, accuses her in “Spare” of being a slippery schemer who “sacrificed” him on the “PR altar” as a part of a “campaign aimed at marriage [to Charles] and eventually the crown.”
The Daily Beast’s supply, nevertheless, scoffed at Harry’s portrayal.
“Literally the last thing she could care about is being queen. It’s absurd, and anyone who knows her knows it is absurd,” they mentioned.
“All she ever wanted was to support the man she loved.”
Another supply near the royal household informed the outlet that Harry’s assaults on Camilla will probably be a turning level in his relationship together with his father.
“It’s profoundly unfair to drag Camilla into it,” the supply mentioned, including that Charles is “betrayed, bewildered and angered” by his son’s statements.
Both sources’ feedback corroborated related predictions from final October, when a palace insider told the outlet that Charles wouldn’t tolerate Harry making merciless remarks about Camilla.
“It is one thing for Harry to attack Charles, he can take it on the chin, but if Harry forces him to choose, by laying into Camilla in his book, I have no doubt he will choose Camilla,” the supply mentioned, noting that the brand new king is “incredibly protective” of his second spouse.
The Montecito-based prince additionally claimed in his memoir that he and his brother, Prince William, begged their father to not marry “the Other Woman” earlier than in the end supporting his resolution to go forward with the marriage.
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Harry, 38, additionally doubled down in a “60 Minutes” interview with Anderson Cooper, by which he described Camilla as a “dangerous” particular person obsessive about “the need for her to rehabilitate her image.”
“If you are led to believe … that being on the front page, having positive headlines, positive stories written about you, is going to improve your reputation or increase the chances of you being accepted as monarch by the British public, then that’s what you’re going to do,” he defined.
Perhaps conscious that lashing out at his stepmother compromised his tenuous ties to the royal household, Harry himself walked again his statements in a dialog with Michael Strahan on “Good Morning America.”
“We understood that she’d been trapped like everyone else in the riptide of events,” he mentioned, clarifying that he feels “compassion” for the Queen Consort and doesn’t view her as an “evil stepmother.”
Royal confidants, nevertheless, are uncertain that Harry can climb again into the fold after his explosive claims. According to a report by the Independent this week, King Charles will invite Harry and Meghan to his coronation in May, however “it would be very hard for Harry and Meghan to be there given everything that has been said in the interviews and the book.”
“The family expects Harry and Meghan to find a reason not to be there,” the insider defined.
While potentialities of a tense reunion stay unclear, members of the royal family showed brave faces on Thursday: Prince William and Kate Middleton, now Prince and Princess of Wales, introduced a united entrance on the opening of the Royal Liverpool Hospital, whereas King Charles was all smiles in a kilt on the Mid-Deeside Community Shed in Aboyne, Scotland.
