Former Royal Family Staffer Insist That What Prince Harry Said About Queen Camilla Doesn’t Add Up; ‘I Promise You, It Wasn’t Like That’
There was a time when Prince Harry was singing Queen Camilla‘s (formerly Camilla Parker Bowles) praises. That time was long before the Duke of Sussex released his memoir Spare, in which he dragged his stepmother through the mud.
Harry went from saying Camilla was “not a wicked stepmother” and that “William and I love her to bits” just before she married King Charles, to calling her “dangerous” and a “villain” who he and his brother never wanted their father to marry.
But someone who used to work for the family, who knew Harry well and interacted with Camilla every day, was puzzled when he heard everything the prince wrote about the current queen in Spare. The staffer saw things much differently.
What Prince Harry said about Camilla in his memoir, ‘Spare’
Queen Camilla was not safe from Harry’s writing wrath in Spare. He also talked negatively about her during the promotional tour for his book.
In a 60 Minutes interview, Harry declared that his stepmom was “dangerous because of the connections that she was forging within the British press … and with her, on the way to being queen consort, there was gonna be people or bodies left in the street because of that.”
He added that he was one of those bodies, writing: “I had complex feelings about gaining a stepparent, who I thought had recently sacrificed me on her personal PR altar.”
And when it came to his father marrying Camilla, Harry claimed that he and William pleaded, “We support you,’ we said. ‘We endorse Camilla,’ we said. ‘Just please don’t marry her. Just be together, Pa.’ He didn’t answer. But she answered. Straight away.”
Former royal butler says what the duke wrote about his stepmother doesn’t make sense
Grant Harrold was King Charles’s butler for seven years. During his time working for the now-monarch, his duties included those of valet, housekeeper, house manager, and driver. Harrold also looked after Prince William and Prince Harry whenever the brothers stayed at Highgrove House.
The former royal employee was perplexed by what Harry wrote in his memoir. Harrold was with them behind the scenes and never witnessed any animosity between them. For the prince to say he never wanted his dad to marry Camilla struck Harrold as very odd because he remembered how the duke acted after the ceremony.
The day of the wedding, Harrold recalled that Harry and William were the ones who decorated their father’s car with the words “Just Married.”
“At the end of the festivities, Charles and Camilla were catching a flight to head straight to Birkhall [on the Balmoral estate],” Harrold wrote in his book The Royal Butler: My Remarkable Life of Royal Service. “We all went outside to wave them off and laughed as we saw William and Harry had decorated their car with ‘Just Married.’ As they drove off through the arches to cheers, the boys raced after the car.”
“The four of them, I promise you, got on so well. And that’s why I don’t understand what Harry’s said, I really don’t understand,” Harrold told The Telegraph. “Because I saw them. I saw them having dinners together, I saw them having drinks together, I saw them going to parties together.”
