LONDON: Prince
Harry has accused the royal family of being complicit in his wife Meghan’s anguish, claiming his stepmother Camilla, the queen consort, had leaked private conversations to the media in order to burnish her own reputation. In interviews broadcast on Sunday, Harry accused members of the royal family of getting “into bed with the devil” to gain favourable tabloid coverage, singling out Camilla’s efforts to rehabilitate her image with the British people after her longtime affair with his father, now King Charles III.
“That made her dangerous because of the connections that she was forging within the British press,” he told CBS. “There was open willingness on both sides to trade information. 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. ” Harry spoke to Britain’s ITV and
CBS to promote his book, “Spare,” which is due to be widely released on Tuesday. It has already generated incendiary headlines with its details of bitter family resentments.
He repeated his claim that there was “concern” in the royal family about his unborn child’s skin colour after he married biracial
Meghan Markle. Harry insisted the family wasn’t racist, but said the episode was an example of unconscious bias, adding that the royal family needed to “learn and grow” in order to be “part of the solution”.