Prince Harry claims Queen Consort was 'dangerous' because she needed to rehabilitate her image
Prince Harry has accused his stepmother Camilla of leaving “bodies in the street” in her determination to become Queen Consort.
The Prince said Camilla was “dangerous” because of her need to rehabilitate her image after being portrayed as “the villain” in his parents’ divorce.
He also accused her of leaking stories to the press as he said members of his family have been “in bed with the devil”.
Royal sources previously told The Telegraph that the Queen Consort did not leak a story about the time she first met Prince William to a newspaper and was said to be "furious" when she discovered details of the meeting had been leaked.
In an interview for the CBS show 60 Minutes, broadcast in the US on Sunday night, the Prince told interviewer Anderson Cooper that Camilla became a danger “because of the connections that she was forging within the British press.
“And with a family built on hierarchy, and with her on the way to being Queen Consort, there was gonna be people or bodies left in the street because of that.”
In his autobiography, Spare, the Prince accuses his stepmother of using him to get better coverage in the press, saying his interests were “sacrificed on her PR altar”.
He told Cooper: “If you are led to believe, as a member of the family, that being on the front page, having positive headlines, positive stories written about you, is going to improve your reputation or increase the chances of you being accepted as monarch by the British public, then that’s what you're gonna do.”
In a separate interview, with ITV’s Tom Bradby, he said: “After many, many years of lies being told about me and my family there comes a point where, going back to the relationship between certain members of the family and the tabloid press, those certain members have decided to get in bed with the devil, right? To rehabilitate their image.
“If you need to do that, or you want to do that, you choose to do that. Well that is a choice. That’s up to you. But the moment that that rehabilitation comes at the detriment of others, me, other members of my family, then that’s where I draw the line.”
He told Bradby he was “one hundred percent” happy for his father and his stepmother on their wedding day, adding:
“William and I wanted our father to be happy and he seemed to be very, very happy with her. We asked him not to get married. He chose to. And that’s his decision. But the two of them were and remain very happy together. But unfortunately with that came some extra…”
Bradby did not let him finish his sentence, asking: “And are you genuinely at peace with [them getting married]?” Harry replied: “Yes.”
