Charles left 'embarrassed' he couldn't stop 'Prince Harry upsetting late Queen'
King Charles was left 'embarrassed' after he failed to stop his son Prince Harry from upsetting the late Queen by attacking the monarchy, a new book has claimed.
Harry had had a fractured relationship with his father Charles ever since he and Meghan Markle quit their royal roles and moved to the United States. After the move, the couple railed against the Royal Family, with Harry accusing his dad of cutting him off financially and refusing to take his calls in an interview with Oprah Winfrey.
The couple also criticised their time as working royals in the same interview, which came shortly before the death of Prince Philip and over a year before the late Queen passed away. In her new book My Mother and I, royal author Ingrid Seward says that when Harry moved across the Atlantic, he "discovered a way of making himself the centre of attention and that was by dissing his family, about whom he felt increasingly bitter".
Harry with his late grandmother the Queen (AFP via Getty Images)And she writes that it left Charles embarrassed that he was unable to stop his son from attacking "his inheritance". She explains: "However much she loved Harry - and she did - she couldn't condone the way he was speaking about the institution of the monarchy that she had spent seventy years preserving. Charles was embarrassed that he was unable to stop Harry from upsetting the Queen by attacking what was, in essence, his and William's inheritance.
"Harry became so swept up with his role as spare that he even compared himself to his aunt Margo [Princess Margaret]; he hardly knew her, but it struck him - as he says in his autobiography - that they should have been friends."
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The new book has been released amid Harry and Meghan sparking controversy by launching their brand new website sussex.com. The major rebrand, four years after their decision to quit their royal roles in favour of making millions in the corporate world, links to their former ‘Sussex Royal’ website which they were banned from using by the late Queen.
Under the terms of an agreement struck with Buckingham Palace, Harry and Meghan can use their Duke and Duchess titles but cannot use HRH in their commercial endeavours. A statement from the palace at the time of the couple's departure from royal life said "everything they do will continue to uphold the values of Her Majesty". But their decision to quietly launch a Sussex.com site, using Meghan's coat of arms and detailing their children's prince and princess titles, was branded "exploitative in the extreme".
The new website came as the couple also headed to Canada to mark one year until the Invictus Games 2025 are held in Whistler and Vancouver. Yesterday, Harry attempted sit-skiing as he and Meghan joined Invictus Games competitors training ahead of the global sporting event.
The couple plans to visit more competitors at the host locations for the 2025 competition. Harry founded the Paralympic-style sporting competition in 2014 for injured and sick military personnel and veterans to aid their recovery.
This week has also seen a flurry of announcements from the Sussexes with the duchess signing a deal with Lemonada Media to record new podcast shows, with the company also distributing her previous series. Meghan's Archetypes podcast about female stereotypes ran for just one series before her lucrative deal with Spotify ended in 2023.
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