It looks like the love between this stepson and his supposedly evil stepmother hasn’t been lost. Prince Harry is holding nothing back from blowing up Camilla, the Queen Consort.
During an interview with Anderson Cooper on Sunday night’s 60 Minutes while he was promoting his much-lauded memoir Spare, Harry, 38, said Camilla’s need to redeem her image of a ‘bad guy’ in the British press made her “dangerous” for him “because of the connections she forged within the British press,” he said.
“And there was an open willingness on both sides to share information. And with a family built on hierarchy, and with her on her way to the queen consort, people or corpses would be left in the streets because of it.
Prince Harry opens up about Camilla in 60 Minutes. 60 minutes / CBS
Harry felt like one of those “bodies,” he told Cooper, 55, on 60 Minutes. He went on to write in his book, “Camilla sacrificed me on her personal PR altar.”
Prince Harry opens up on 60 Minutes.
Camilla, Queen Consort and Prince Harry in 2012. Getty Images
Prince Harry and Camilla, Queen Consort, in 2015. Getty Images
Harry has previously spoken out about his family throwing him and Meghan Markle under the bus in order to present themselves better in public. In their Netflix documentaries Harry & Meghan, Harry claimed that both his father, Charles, and brother, William, leaked stories about the couple to the media and also dabbled in “trade stories.” (As he explained, this is when a member of the royal family offers the press a scoop about another member to try and erase negative stories about themselves).
Harry said that he and William vowed never to do this practice of “trading,” but William broke that promise. Said Harry in the documentary.
Prince Harry, Camilla and Kate Middleton in 2014. UK Press via Getty Images
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex gives a speech alongside Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex in 2014. Chris Jackson/Getty Images
Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Queen Elizabeth II, Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge in 2018. Getty images
Now he says Camilla left him a “corpse in the street” because she wanted to present herself better than being the “other woman” in King Charles and Princess Diana’s marriage.
After Camilla and Charles had a widely publicized affair that led to Charles and Diana’s divorce, Charles and Camilla finally married in 2005. Prince Harry wasn’t happy about it either, he’s flushing his book, and neither is Prince William.
Meanwhile, 60 Minutes co-host Cooper pressed Harry as to why both brothers told their father not to marry Camilla. “We didn’t think it was necessary,” he said. “We thought it would do more harm than good. And that if he were with himself now – that’s enough. Why go so far if it is not absolutely necessary?”
“Spare” will be released on January 10th.