Prince Harry has used his memoirs to claim that he and William ‘begged’ Charles not to marry Camilla after Princess Diana’s death fearing that she would be their ‘wicked stepmother’.
He claims that he and his brother would not stand in the way of his father’s relationship but had asked him not to walk down the aisle for the second time, calling her the ‘Other Woman’.
Charles had tried to ‘win over the kids’ before asking the public to accept Camilla, the book claims. Harry said that meeting her for the first time was like an ‘injection’ – ‘close your eyes and you won’t even feel it’, he said.
He said: ‘I remember wondering.. if she would be cruel to me; if she would be like all the evil stepmothers in the stories’. He added: ‘Willy had been suspicious of the Other Woman for a long time, which confused and tormented him; When those suspicions were confirmed, he felt agonizing remorse for not having done or said anything before’.
William and Harry, pictured in 2007, are said to have been opposed to Charles marrying the ‘other woman’ Camilla, the Duke of Sussex’s new book claims
Charles and Camilla married in 2005. Harry claims that William wished he had said something to prevent it
The Duke of Sussex’s book has been released six days early in Spain, and reveals that he calls William his ‘archenemy’ and ‘polar opposite’ before describing the moment he was told that Princess Diana was dead, MailOnline can reveal today.
The Duke of Sussex accuses his older brother of being the aggressor during Megxit, claiming their relationship has become so strained and damaged that the Prince of Wales would only ‘scowl’ at him.
Harry reveals that he held a secret meeting with William and Charles hours after the funeral of Prince Philip in April 2021 – close to the grave of King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson – but said his father and brother wouldn’t listen to him and claimed not to understand why he had emigrated.
His attacks on William and Charles are revealed at the start of the Spanish version of his book ‘Spare’. There the book is called ‘En La Sombra’, which translates as ‘In the Shadow’, and begins with the dedication: ‘For Meg, Archie and Lili… and, of course, my mother’.
The book is not due out until Tuesday morning, but appears to have been published early abroad with various excerpts leaked to the left-wing press.
MailOnline can today reveal that chapter one begins after Prince Philip’s funeral in April 2021, where he describes meeting his father and brother in the grounds of Windsor Castle, close to Frogmore Cottage, where the Sussexes stay when in the UK.
Harry, he calls his brother ‘Willy’ throughout says he came to Britain to say farewell to Prince Philip but also requested a ‘secret meeting with my older brother and my father’. He also revealed that his grandmother the Queen called him in the US to tell him: ‘Harry… .grandfather has passed away’.
The prince describes waiting close to the graves of the former King Edward VIII and his wife Wallis Simpson, who he gave up the throne for, and ponders what they would have thought about his own falling out with his family.
But Harry says as soon as he saw William and Charles enter the gardens, he said he knew they were there for a ‘duel’ rather than a reconciliation. He claims they interrupted him each time they tried to explain.
He wrote: ‘I looked at Willy, really looked at him, perhaps for the first time since we were little, taking in every detail: his familiar scowl, which had always been the norm in his dealings with me’.
He said that his brother’s baldness was ‘alarming’ and ‘advanced than mine’ and said his resemblance their their mother had ‘faded’.
Describing his brother, once his best friend, as his ‘polar opposite’, he said: ‘My dear brother, my archenemy, how did we come to this? I felt overwhelming tiredness. I wanted to go home’.
Harry then accused William and Charles of effectively gaslighting him, by denying he understood why he and Meghan had left for the US. Harry said of Frogmore Cottage: ‘Willy, this was supposed to be our house. We were going to spend the rest of our lives here’.
William replied: ‘You left, Harold’. Harry said: ‘Yeah, and you know why’, and his brother shot back -Honestly no. Harold… not really.’.
Harry then turned to Charles ‘who was looking at me with an expression that said, ‘Me neither.’
He said he felt like they didn’t know him and were ‘not in a position to listen’ to him.
