Prince Harryisn’t holding back about the history of his relationship withQueen Camillain his memoir,Spare.
The Duke of Sussex, 38, sat down withMichael Strahanin an interview that aired onGood Morning Americaon Monday to discuss the book, out Tuesday.
During the segment, Strahan said in a voiceover that Prince Harry wrote about family issues with his fatherKing Charles IIIand his wifeQueen Camilla, who married in 2005. TheGMAco-anchor said that Harry and his brotherPrince Williamasked their dadnot to marryCamilla but that Harry also wanted his dad to be happy.
QuotingSpare, Strahan said, “In a funny way, I even wanted Camilla to be happy. Maybe she’d be less dangerous if she was happy?”
“When your father married Camilla, you wrote, ‘I had complex feelings about gaining a stepparent, who I thought had recently sacrificed me on her personal PR altar.’ What has she done at that point, you felt?” Strahan asked during their sit-down.
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“I have a huge amount of compassion for her, you know, being the third person within my parents' marriage,“Prince Harrysaid. The “third person” mention referenced his late motherPrincess Diana’s famous comment in her 1995Panoramainterview that “There werethree of usin this marriage, so it was a bit crowded,” pointing to Camilla and Charles’years-long relationshipwhich overlapped with her marriage to the royal.
“She had a reputation or an image to rehabilitate, and whatever conversations happened, whatever deals or trading was made right at the beginning, she was led to believe that that would be the best way to doing it,” Harry said of Camilla’s entrance into the royal family.
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“And what is your relationship with Camilla now?” Strahan, 51, asked.
“We haven’t spoken for a long time. I love every member of my family, despite the differences,” Harry said. “So when I see her, we’re perfectly pleasant with each other. She’s my stepmother. I don’t look at her as an evil stepmother. I see someone who married into this institution, and done everything she can to improve her own reputation and her own image, for her own sake.”
Footage rolled of photos of Prince Harry andMeghan Markle, as Strahan said in another voiceover, “As his relationship with Meghan got more serious, and dominated headlines, Harry believes his father and Camilla got jealous.”
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Prince Harry’s conversation withGMAwas his second U.S. television interview to promoteSpare. He first appeared on60 MinuteswithAnderson Cooperin an interview that aired Sunday evening, where the quote fromSpareabout Camilla being “dangerous” was also shared.
“You wrote that she started a campaign in the British press to pave the way for a marriage. And you wrote, ‘I even wanted Camilla to be happy. Maybe she’d be less dangerous if she was happy,’ " Cooper said, quoting the text. “How was she dangerous?”
The book jacket of Prince Harry’s memoir ‘Spare’.PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
“That made her dangerous because of the connections that she was forging within the British press,” Harry said of Camilla’s relationship with the media. “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.”
Charles and Camilla wed in April 2005, and Camilla received the title of Duchess of Cornwall following their union. AfterQueen Elizabethdied, Charles became King Charles III andbestowed the title of Queen Consortupon his wife.
Before her death,Queen Elizabethsaid it was her “sincere wish” thatCamilla “be known as Queen Consortas she continues her own loyal service.”
source: people.com
