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.
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Harry arrive at Westminster Hall at the Palace of Westminster for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Lunch on June 5, 2012 in London, England.
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."
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Prince Harry attend the opening ceremony for the Invictus Games, presented by Jaguar Land Rover at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on September 10, 2014 in London, England.
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."
Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and son Prince Harry, watch the flypast over The Mall of British and US World War II aircraft from the Buckingham Palace balcony on National Commemoration Day July 10, 2005 in London.
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.
Prince Charles, Princess Camilla and Prince Harry watch poppies dropped from a Lancaster bombe as she stands next to Prince Andrew on the balcony of Buckingham Palace during the celebrations marking the end of World War II in London 10 July 2005.
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?"
Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla wait in the chapel for the wedding ceremony of Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and US actress Meghan Markle in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Windsor, on May 19, 2018.
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."
