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Princess Diana’s close friend makes revealing claim about the night Harry was born (Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\nKing Charles ‘made heartless remark’ about future with Camilla just hours after Diana gave birth to Prince Harry, according to bombshell new book from the princess’s friend<\/p>\n
07:00, 11 Sep 2025Updated 14:03, 11 Sep 2025<\/p>\n
Princess Diana’s close friend makes revealing claim about the night Harry was born (Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n
King Charles III allegedly left Princess Diana<\/a> in tears in her hospital bed just hours after she gave birth to Prince Harry<\/a>, the Mirror<\/a> can reveal today.<\/p>\n The then Prince of Wales<\/a> was apparently visiting his newborn son for the first time, when he turned to Diana and said the words which she later claimed were the death knell for their marriage. She later relayed the story to her one-time ‘rock’ and butler Paul Burrell<\/a>, who has gone public with it today, as the world<\/a> speculates about the future for Prince Harry and King Charles’s relationship<\/a> following their 55-minute reunion meeting.<\/p>\n \u201c[Diana told me] Charles came into the hospital, looked in the cot and said \u2018Oh, red hair\u2019,\u201d recalls Paul, in his new book The Royal Insider, out now. \u201cDiana replied, \u2018But, Charles, you know that\u2019s the Spencer gene. We\u2019ve all got red hair\u2019.\u201d Paul adds: \u201cThen [according to Diana] came the damning blow. He said, \u2018Well at least I\u2019ve got my heir and spare now and\u2026. I can return to Camilla\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n Paul remembers Diana describing her shock. While she wasn’t surprised about her husband\u2019s affections for the then-married Camilla Parker-Bowles, she was apparently stunned that her husband would say such a thing as she lay in the bed having just given birth.<\/p>\n Of course, as we’ve learned from the late Queen Elizabeth II, recollections do vary.<\/a> There are only two people who really know what who said what inside that room in the private Lindo Wing of St Mary\u2019s Hospital, Paddington, that night. And one of them is long gone.<\/p>\n The Mirror<\/a> has contacted Buckingham Palace <\/a>for comment. Yet, however King Charles<\/a>‘ recalls events, Paul saw firsthand how scarred Diana was by her memories of that day. It was years after Harry’s birth in 1984 that the Princess confided in Paul about it during one of their many conversations about her marriage woes. Yet, he says it was still visibly raw and emotional for her to recall.<\/p>\n \u201cDiana told me: \u2018I cried myself to sleep that night knowing my marriage was over\u2019,\u201d says the butler-turned-author. \u201cShe said: \u2018Four years, Paul, I gave him four good years and he was gone. For the rest of the time I had to pretend and put on a facade to the world\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n Diana was just 23 when she gave birth to Harry. She had married four years earlier and had Prince William<\/a>, two years after that. Charles, meanwhile, was 36 when Harry was born – and, according to Paul, made it clear the marriage was all but over once he had fulfilled his procreational responsibilities.<\/p>\n Paul, 67, today reveals he reluctantly shared Diana’s story with with Princes William and Harry, after they allegedly asked for a secret meeting in Kensington Palace in 2017. Paul claimed the boys wanted to hear his stories about their mother on what was the 20th anniversary of her fatal car crash in Paris. But then, he says, they asked him why he thought things had gone wrong between their parents. From what Diana had allegedly told him, it was that moment in the hospital which had changed everything.<\/p>\n \u201cHarry stared straight at me poker faced,” Paul writes in his book. “He couldn\u2019t believe what I was telling him. I said to him \u2018Harry it\u2019s the truth. I wouldn\u2019t tell you that unless it was exactly what your mother told me\u2019. This happened just before Harry became engaged to Meghan. I think that powered him, and put fuel in his tanks to go forward with everything he felt. \u201c[And it\u2019s] probably why he called his book Spare.\u201d<\/p>\n Charles and Diana<\/a> lived largely separate lives from 1986 as the now King continued his romance with his now queen, Camilla – and Diana had her own acquaintances. He and Diana officially separated in 1992 – which later became known as the late Queen\u2019s Annus Horribilis, following marriage problems for three of her four children and the fire at Windsor Castle. The Mirror has contacted the Buckingham Palace<\/a> for comment.<\/p>\n![\"Prince](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3_Charles-Baby-Harry.jpg\")
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Paul Burrell, who worked for the Queen, King Charles and Diana, often counselled the late princess on her marriage woes; the two are seen together in 1991 on a trip to Pakistan(Image: ExpressStar)![\"King](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2_King-Charles-III-And-Queen-Camilla-20th-Wedding-Anniversary-Portrait.jpg\")
King Charles and Queen Camilla proved their love would last; the two are seen as they celebrated their 20th anniversary last April(Image: Getty Images for Buckingham Pala)<\/p>\n