Does silence speak volumes? The royal family has yet to publicly comment on Prince Harry’s bombshell memoir Spare — and one royal expert thinks the Duke of Sussex was hoping for more of a reaction.
10.01.2023 - 01:33 / glamour.com
, were leaked ahead of his promotional 60 Minutes interview on Sunday night—perhaps most notably, the allegation that his brother, in a physical altercation at Nottingham Cottage, breaking his dog bowl, his necklace and, evidently, his spirit. I anticipated more anecdotes about his strained relationship with his brother and his father, King Charles.
Instead, Prince Harry appears to have pivoted to an unexpected—though hardly new—narrative: singling out his stepmother, Queen Camilla. “Spare is anything but spare in its unflattering portrayal of the royal family, especially his stepmother, Camilla,” CBS’s Anderson Cooper narrated. Long cast as the notorious third member of Princess Diana and then-Prince Charles’s marriage, over the decades Camilla was slowly but ultimately embraced by the Queen and the royal family as King Charles’s “person,” as Prince Harry put it with a smirk on 60 Minutes. Yet Camilla finds herself under fire yet again, in a version of the fairy tale archetype of the wicked stepmother.
In Spare, Prince Harry accuses her of bargaining with the British tabloid media at his expense as part of her quest to shed her “other woman” reputation and be seen as a legitimate royal wife. Branded “the villain” by the British press, Harry explained, Camilla sought a revamp after marrying Prince Charles in 2005. “That made her dangerous, because of the connections that she was forging within the British press,” he said.
“And there was [an] 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.”Prince Harry claims that both he and Prince William were among the
.Does silence speak volumes? The royal family has yet to publicly comment on Prince Harry’s bombshell memoir Spare — and one royal expert thinks the Duke of Sussex was hoping for more of a reaction.
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