Prince Harry Allegedly Didn't Want Queen Camilla 'In The Same Room' During Visit To King Charles, Journalist Claims
Prince Harry allegedly didn't want to be in the same room as his stepmother, Queen Camilla, when he reunited with his father, King Charles, a week ago.
The Duke of Sussex immediately flew to his home country when His Majesty informed him that he was diagnosed with cancer. The father and son reportedly only met for 45 minutes before Prince Harry flew back to the United States without seeing his big brother, Prince William.
British journalist and author Petronella Wyatt claimed in a column for The Telegraph that "hostilities flared up" between King Charles' wife and youngest son during the visit. Meghan Markle's husband allegedly "launched an unprovoked volley in the direction of a 75-year-old woman."
"In an irony that will no doubt escape this self-proclaimed feminist and Lochinvar of the New World, Harry, I hear, preferred not to be in the same room with his stepmother when he spoke to the King about his cancer diagnosis, following the most precipitous and historic mercy mission to Blighty since Lend Lease," Wyatt wrote.
"As olive branches go, it's a massive opportunity missed by the Prince of Petulance -- though it's likely our laidback Queen wouldn't have minded either way."
Wyatt, who personally knows Queen Camilla, said she couldn't understand Prince Harry's "continuing choler" toward his stepmother. She speculated that the duke probably ran out of family members to insult after dispatching his brother, Prince William, and sister-in-law, Kate Middleton.
"I have known Camilla since I was 18, and she is palpably incapable of the scheming Harry has often accused her of," Wyatt continued. "To what has sometimes been her detriment, she is incapable of machinations of any kind. With her clean tradition as the daughter of country gentry, her complexion that rejects make-up and the elements, and her forthright, genuine approach, the closest she has come to 'scheme' is on a Scrabble board."
In an interview with "Good Morning America" before the release of "Spare," Prince Harry clarified that he didn't consider Queen Camilla an evil stepmother.
"She's my stepmother. I don't look at her as an evil stepmother," Prince Harry said, as quoted by Time. "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."
In an interview with Andrew Cooper for "60 Minutes," Prince Harry echoed the same sentiment about Queen Camilla allegedly wanting to improve her image.
"She was the third person in the marriage, she needed to rehabilitate her image," Prince Harry said.
Queen Camilla gained a lot of criticism due to her affair with King Charles. Princess Diana told Martin Bashir in her "Panorama" interview in 1995 that her relationship with the then-heir didn't work because "there were three of us in this marriage."
Meanwhile, the Duke of Sussex also alleged in his book that Camilla used him to improve her reputation.
"I had complex feelings about gaining a step-parent who, I believed, had recently sacrificed me on her personal PR altar," Prince Harry wrote in "Spare." "In a funny way, I even wanted Camilla to be happy. Maybe she'd be less dangerous if she was happy?"
Queen Camilla has never released any statement in response to Prince Harry's book. However, True Royalty TV co-founder Nick Bullen, who has worked with the King and Queen to produce documentaries, said Camilla was "furious" with her stepson's damning accusations against her.
"I know from various people who are close to her [that] she was pretty furious with what was being said about her," Bullen told Fox News. "But she is not someone that is going to be phoning Harry or [his wife] Meghan [Markle] and shouting down on the phone at them."
