Prince Harry launched a sharp attack on Camilla, the wife of his father, King Charles, describing her as “dangerous and evil”, while continuing his publicity campaign for his controversial memoirs entitled “Spear”.
The 38-year-old Duke of Sussex targeted the Queen Consort while speaking to Anderson Cooper on Sunday during the “60 Minutes” program on CBS News.
Referring to a 1995 interview in which his late mother, Princess Diana, said Camilla was “the third person in her marriage”, Harry explained that this admission had turned the now-queen consort into a “villain”, adding: “She needed to rehabilitate her image.”
According to Harry, who also revealed in his memoirs that he and his brother William “begged” their father not to marry Camilla, this desire to change her public image made her “dangerous”.
The prince said during his interview on “60 Minutes” that he and William did not think it was “necessary” for Charles to marry Camilla, and he said: “We thought that (this marriage) would cause more harm than good, and that if (his father) was in a special relationship with her This is certainly enough. Why would he go so far as to marry when he doesn’t necessarily need to?”
He added, “We wanted him to be happy. We saw how happy he was with her. So, at that time we said OK.”
The Duke of Sussex accuses his stepmother Camilla of “sharing information” with the press in an attempt to get more positive stories written regarding herself, before expressing his opinion dramatically that her “contacts” with the media will end up with “people or bodies left on the street”.
Harry also claims that what he saw as Camilla’s desire to “be on the front page and get positive stories written regarding her” came from his family’s belief that positive media coverage would improve her reputation, or increase her chances of being accepted as queen by the British public.
Harry’s sensational attack on Camilla is the latest in a series of barbs he has hurled at his stepmother, having already drawn “a very unflattering portrayal of her” in his memoirs “Spear”, which were accidentally released in Spain last week.