{"id":36643,"date":"2025-09-01T14:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T14:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/36643\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T14:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T14:32:07","slug":"boris-johnson-plotted-revenge-on-king-charles-for-political-remark-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/36643\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson plotted ‘revenge’ on King Charles for political remark | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ex Prime Minister Boris Johnson reportedly wanted \u201crevenge\u201d on King Charles,<\/a> when he was the Prince of Wales, over a comment he made. In the upcoming book Power and the Palace: the Inside Story of the Monarchy and 10 Downing Street, author Valentine Low addresses a source of tension between Mr Johnson and Charles in 2022.<\/p>\n

This tension came after Mr Johnson launched a plan in April 2022 to tackle illegal migration. As Prime Minister at the time, Mr Johnson\u2019s plan was to send people who arrived in the UK illegally to Rwanda<\/a>, where they could then apply for asylum.<\/p>\n

The plan was extremely controversial, with many people criticising it right from the start.<\/p>\n

Among the critics was King Charles<\/a>, who was the Prince of Wales at the time, who reportedly called the plan \u201cappalling\u201d,<\/a> and was frustrated by it as he was set to represent Queen Elizabeth II at the Commonwealth summit in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, later that month.<\/p>\n

Author Valentine Low said that Charles\u2019 comment was going to feature in a story in The Times, with Buckingham Palace wanting to do all they could to stop the story getting worse, especially as it portrayed Charles moaning about a policy that could solve the migration crisis.<\/p>\n

At the time, The Home Office took steps to stop a row between the government and Charles, however Low claims that Mr Johnson was \u201cplotting his revenge\u201d on the royal for his comment.<\/a><\/p>\n

As reported by The Times<\/a>, Low said that Clarence House – who was in charge of Charles\u2019 communication – wanted a picture of Charles and Mr Johnson shaking hands ahead of the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Kigali to stop news of a tension spreading.<\/p>\n

While this did happen, with Charles and Mr Johnson snapped smiling and shaking hands, Mr Johnson did manage to keep the story of Charles\u2019 criticism of the Rwanda plan – which also featured on the Mail Online website – going.<\/p>\n

This is because on the plane to Rwanda, Mr Johnson told journalists he hoped to help others \u201cshed some of their condescending attitudes towards Rwanda\u201d.<\/p>\n

While he didn\u2019t mention Charles, Downing Street\u2019s former director of communications Guto Harri said the comment was \u201ca dig at Charles, without mentioning Charles\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cCharles had slagged off a key and difficult policy decision. Boris is not a man to let that go<\/a>. He does not get angry or upset, but he gets even. I remember Boris telling me once, \u2018I fear no man\u2019. But it was slightly playful as well: I think he was enjoying [Charles\u2019s] discomfort.\u201d<\/p>\n

The situation was believed to be difficult for the Palace, with royals usually believed to be advised not to publicly express political views.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ex Prime Minister Boris Johnson reportedly wanted \u201crevenge\u201d on King Charles, when he was the Prince of Wales,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,5094,28472,28475,28473,28474],"class_list":{"0":"post-36643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-king-charles-iii","13":"tag-king-charles-iii-boris-johnson","14":"tag-king-charles-iii-politics","15":"tag-king-charles-iii-royal-family","16":"tag-king-charles-iii-rwanda-plan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}