- Prince Harry is now going after his stepmother, Camilla, the Queen Consort.
- Harry said Camilla forged connections with the press to "trade" information.
Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, is going scorched earth on the royal family, and has now revealed new information about his stepmother Camilla, the Queen Consort.
Harry spoke extensively about Camilla to Anderson Cooper on the CBS program "60 Minutes" on January 8, two days before the release of his upcoming memoir, "Spare." According to Harry, Camilla became "dangerous" amid her drive to rehabilitate her image after her affair with his father, King Charles.
Harry told Cooper that, where Camilla was concerned: "She was the villain. She was the third person in their marriage. She needed to rehabilitate her image."
During his interview with the prince, Cooper referenced an excerpt from the book where Harry accused Camilla of starting a press campaign to smooth the road ahead for marriage with Charles.
"And you wrote, "I even wanted Camilla to be happy. Maybe she'd be less dangerous if she was happy." How was she dangerous?" Cooper asked Harry.
"Because of the need for her to rehabilitate her image," Harry replied.
"That made her dangerous because of the connections that she was forging within the British press. And there was open willingness on both sides to trade of information," the prince said during the interview. "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."
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Harry's media tour to promote his book has revealed various lines of tension between him and other senior royals. During his interview on "60 Minutes," Harry also said he believed Buckingham Palace had previously planted stories about him and Meghan.
Harry was also asked by Cooper on "60 Minutes" about how he and his brother, Prince William, asked their father not to marry Camilla.
"We didn't think it was necessary. We thought that it was gonna cause more harm than good and that if he was now with his person, that — surely that's enough," Harry said. "Why go that far when you don't necessarily need to?"
According to an excerpt from "Spare" viewed by The Telegraph ahead of the book's release, Harry accused his father of being afraid that Meghan Markle would steal his spotlight. Harry speculated, per The Telegraph, that Charles did not want to have "a novel and resplendent" figure like Markle around, who would "dominate the monarchy"
In an excerpt of his autobiography viewed by The Guardian, Harry also detailed what he said was a physical altercation between him and his brother William in 2019. According to Harry's account, William knocked him over during a tense conversation at Nottingham Cottage, Kensington Palace. Harry, per the excerpt seen by The Guardian, also said William called his wife Markle "difficult," "rude," and "abrasive."
However, Harry this year also expressed a desire to reconcile with William and their father.
"I would like to get my father back. I would like to have my brother back," Harry said this month in an interview with ITV.
This desire might not be realized. The Sunday Times' royal correspondent Roya Nikkhah tweeted on Saturday that the Duke of Sussex "has been written out of the script for the Coronation, with no official role in the service if he attends."
Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace, and representatives for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.