Request denied. Prince Harry revealed that he and Prince William requested King Charles III to not marry Queen Consort Camilla — however their father ignored their needs.
“She was the villain. She was the third person in their marriage. She needed to rehabilitate her image,” the Duke of Sussex, 38, defined to Anderson Cooper throughout his 60 Minutes interview, which aired on CBS Sunday, January 8.
Princess Diana famously referred to Camilla, now 75, as “the third person” in her marriage, and Harry claims she was attempting to repair her public status forward of the 2005 nuptials.
“We didn’t think [getting married] was necessary. We thought that it was gonna cause more harm than good and that if he was now with his person, that — surely that’s enough,” Harry recalled. “Why go that far when you don’t necessarily need to? We wanted him to be happy. And we saw how happy he was with her. So, at the time, it was, ‘Ok.’”
In his memoir, Spare, the Invictus Games founder wrote: “I even wanted Camilla to be happy. Maybe she’d be less dangerous if she was happy.” Cooper, 55, requested how precisely she’d been “dangerous” in any respect.
“Because of the need for her to rehabilitate her image,” Harry mentioned. “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 of 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.”
In Spare, which can hit cabinets on Tuesday, January 10, Harry recollects how he allegedly realized {that a} “gung-ho” member of Charles’ workforce “devised and launched a new campaign of getting good press” for his father and stepmother. The constructive message concerning the king got here “at the expense of bad press” for each princes.
“They’ve done this to me for the last time,” William instructed Harry throughout their alleged cellphone name, including that he “wasn’t going to take it anymore.”
The BetterUp CIO wrote that when William confronted their father, he tagged alongside for “moral support,” however issues shortly turned bitter.
“Pa instantly got upset. He began shouting that Willy was paranoid. We both were,” Harry recalled. “Just because we were getting bad press, and he was getting good, that didn’t mean his staff was behind it.”
In his interview with ITV’s Tom Bradbury, which additionally debuted on Sunday, Harry alleged that the “relationship between certain members of the family and the tabloid press” has gotten out of hand. “Those certain members have decided to get in the bed with the devil to rehabilitate their image,” the prince mentioned.
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