It looks like Queen Camilla‘s relationship with Prince Harry will never be repaired. While there were green flag with the Duke of Sussex’s successful reunion with King Charles, it doesn’t look the same with his stepmother.
According to several sources like the Examiner, Camilla “will never forgive” Harry. “She’s still livid over what he wrote about her” in his memoir Spare, “and what he said in follow-up interviews.”
In Spare, Harry recounted how he viewed Camilla as a “villain” and how he felt when his father remarried. He wrote that he viewed her “like all the wicked stepmothers in storybooks,” noting that William “long harbored suspicions about the Other Woman.”
“I had complex feelings about gaining a step parent who, I believed, had recently sacrificed me on her personal PR altar,” Harry wrote. “In a funny way I even wanted Camilla to be happy. Maybe she’d be less dangerous if she was happy?”
According to some sources, Camilla has no intentions to reconcile. “Harry’s attacks felt very personal to her,” a source told RadarOnline. “Camilla has endured criticism for much of her life, but to have Charles’ own son describe her as calculating and a threat is beyond what she can accept. She thinks those words caused lasting damage.”
“To her, Harry’s remarks went beyond rudeness – they struck at her character,” another insider told the gossip site. “Camilla spent years slowly earning trust within the family and from the public. His accusations tore open old wounds she believed were finally closed.”
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Despite how Camilla feels, her husband doesn’t want to burn bridges. “Charles finds the situation agonizing,” a friend of the king said. “He makes efforts to reach out to Harry, but Camilla always brings him back to the hurtful passages in the memoir. It’s the sticking point that makes healing the rift so hard.”
Another source added, “Camilla often stresses that Harry and Meghan stepped away from their duties, and she uses that to bolster her case. Whenever Charles shows signs of softening, she reminds him of the attacks directed at her.”
And it doesn’t seem like the grudge will go away. “In public she puts on a gracious face, but privately the resentment remains – and it’s unlikely she’ll ever let it go.”
In an interview with Good Morning America after the books publication, Harry clarified Michael Strahan that there wasn’t harsh feelings towards Camilla. “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.”
Harry spoke positively of his reunion with his father, and considered bringing his kids to his homeland. “Yes, I would. This week has definitely brought that closer,” he said during an interview with The Guardian.
During the same interview, Prince Harry was asked about the revelations made in his memoir,about his family, and said, “I don’t believe that I aired my dirty laundry in public. It was a difficult message, but I did it in the best way possible. My conscience is clear,” he explained. “I know that [speaking out] annoys some people and it goes against the narrative,” he added. “The book? It was a series of corrections to stories already out there. One point of view had been put out and it needed to be corrected.”