Royal Butler Raises Questions With King Charles Wedding Story
According to Grant Harrold—who worked with King Charles, Queen Camilla, Prince Harry, and Prince William for seven years—the brothers were seemingly thrilled for their dad on his wedding day and there was "no animosity."
"At the end of the festivities, Charles and Camilla were catching a flight to head straight to Birkhall [on the Balmoral estate]," Grant writes in his upcoming book, The Royal Butler (via The Telegraph). "We all went outside to wave them off and laughed as we saw William and Harry had decorated their car with 'Just Married'. As they drove off through the arches to cheers, the boys raced after the car."
This obviously couldn't be a more different vibe from what Harry wrote about Camilla and Charles in Spare, where he recalled begging his dad not to marry. As Harry put it, "We support you, we said. We endorse Camilla, we said. 'Just please don't marry her. Just be together, Pa.' He didn't answer. But she answered. Straight away. Shortly after our private summits with her, she began to play the long game, a campaign aimed at marriage and eventually the Crown (with Pa's blessing, we presumed)."
Meanwhile, Grant claims "The four of them, I promise you, got on so well. And that's why I don't understand what Harry's said, I really don't understand. Because I saw them. I saw them having dinners together, I saw them having drinks together, I saw them going to parties together."
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