The Queen didn’t tell the press about her first meeting with Prince William, royal insiders insist, after the Duke of Sussex wrote in his diary that she leaked the story to the media.
In his new autobiography Spear, Prince Harry has made a series of surprising revelations about the royal family, including claiming that Camilla gave ‘meticulously minute details’ to the press about the first time she met the heir.
‘no one [of the details] Of Willie of course. It could only have been leaked by someone else present, Harry wrote, hinting Camilla is spilling the beans on reporters.
But a royal insider told The Telegraph that it was Camilla’s private secretary who accidentally shared the details, later resigning.
The Duke of Sussex (right) wrote in his diary that Camilla (left) leaked the story of her first meeting with Prince William to the media.
(LR) Prince William, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Harry and Prince Charles, Prince of Wales attend the unveiling of a memorial to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, at The Mall on February 24, 2009 in London, England
Royal sources said Camilla’s personal assistant Amanda McManus (pictured in 1998) was responsible for leaking details about the now-Queen’s first meeting with William.
Spear’s autobiography Harry is set to be released on January 10 but a copy was leaked before the publication date
Harry ‘creates a very shaky narrative and is in parts an amalgam of different versions of stories’, a source told The Telegraph, before going on to claim that Camilla’s personal assistant Amanda McManus was responsible for leaking details about the 1998 meeting.
Camilla Parker Bowles as she was then known allegedly told MacManus, who later told her media-savvy husband.
A newspaper then obtained the details from a former colleague of McManus’ husband, the source insisted.
Camilla was said to be “furious” when she discovered the leak and McManus quit.
The aide, who was later rehired by Camilla, said at the time: “I am so sorry for the distress this has caused. Above all, it is a disgrace that I have failed those who demand loyalty and trust, in particular my wonderful employer Mrs. Parker-Bowles.
“I am very sorry for my departure, but as the person responsible for this unhappy chain of events, I cannot with honor remain in this position.”
Britain’s Prince William, right, and Prince Harry, left, after the marriage of their father, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, at Guildhall in Windsor, England, following their civil wedding ceremony. , on April 9, 2005
Prince Charles, Princess Camilla and Prince Harry watch as Poppy falls from a Lancaster bomb as she stands next to Prince Andrew on the balcony of Buckingham Palace during celebrations marking the end of World War II in London on July 10, 2005
Charles and Camilla married in 2005. Harry claims William wished he had said something to prevent it
In another excerpt from Spear, Prince Harry accused Camilla of plotting to marry Charles and seize the crown.
In an unusual passage, the Duke of Sussex writes: ‘Soon after our private meetings with her, she began to develop her long-term strategy, a campaign directed at marriage and, in time, the Crown (with our father’s blessing, we suppose).
As duke claims it is And his brother William The then Prince of Wales “begged” not to marry again After, after The death of Princess DianaFearing that she is their “evil stepmother”.
Charles tried to win his sons over before asking the audience to accept Camilla, the book claims. Harry then said startlingly that meeting the future Queen Consort for the first time was like an “injection”. He later said that in the end he and William agreed to Camilla.
He writes: “I remember wondering…if she would be hard on me; If she was going to be like all the bad stepmothers in stories.”
In his book, which was released in Spain, Harry also calls William his “sworn enemy” and his “polar opposite,” and describes the moment when his father, Charles, told him that their mother, Diana, had been killed in a car crash in Paris. MailOnline.
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