{"id":362367,"date":"2025-08-21T15:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/362367\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T15:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:29:10","slug":"what-did-prince-harry-and-prince-william-really-do-at-king-charles-and-queen-camillas-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/362367\/","title":{"rendered":"What Did Prince Harry and Prince William Really Do at King Charles and Queen Camilla\u2019s Wedding?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince William<\/strong><\/a> and Prince Harry<\/strong><\/a> officially welcomed Queen Camilla<\/strong><\/a> as their stepmother on April 9, 2005. At the time, the whole world was watching the second marriage<\/a> of King Charles III<\/strong><\/a>\u2014then the Prince of Wales\u2014who divorced the late Princess Diana<\/a> nine years earlier.<\/p>\n

Grant Harrold<\/strong>, the monarch\u2019s former butler, shared excerpt from his book, The Royal Butler: My Remarkable Life of Royal Service<\/a>, to the British newspaper The Telegraph<\/a> on the occasion of its publication. One of the passages contains a sweet memory of King Charles III and Queen Camilla’s big day. But it was above all the reactions of Princes William and Harry that struck the former butler.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the festivities, Charles and Camilla were catching a flight to head straight to Birkhall [on the Balmoral estate],\u201d he writes in the book. \u201cWe all went outside to wave them off and laughed as we saw William and Harry had decorated their car with \u2018Just Married.’ As they drove off through the arches to cheers, the boys raced after the car.\u201d<\/p>\n

Charles and Camilla pose with their children, Prince Harry, Prince William, Laura and Tom Parker Bowles, in Windsor Castle\u2019s white drawing room for group photo after their wedding at the Guildhall in April 2005.<\/p>\n

Anwar Hussein Collection\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

There are, however, other versions of this anecdote, less poetic than the picture painted by Harrold.<\/p>\n

In his memoir Spare<\/a>, Prince Harry tells a very different story. \u201cThere are published reports that Willy and I snuck out of the church and hung JUST MARRIED signs on their car. I don\u2019t think so. I might\u2019ve hung a sign: BE HAPPY. If I\u2019d thought of it at the time,\u201d he wrote. According to the book, the two brothers instead asked their father not to marry his beloved. \u201cWe support you, we said. We endorse Camilla, we said. Just please don\u2019t marry her. Just be together, Pa.\u201d<\/p>\n

One thing\u2019s for sure: a mystery remains, and only the principals involved know the truth.<\/p>\n

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