A new book about the royals calls Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s March 2021 sit-down with Oprah Winfrey a “chilling new low” in Harry’s relationship with his brother, Prince William, and father, King Charles—a relationship that, unfortunately, has only worsened since. After the Oprah interview, according to excerpts of veteran royal correspondent Robert Jobson’s new book Our King, William devised a “drastic strategy” because he had “lost all trust,” The Mirror reports.
“In the aftermath, William went to his father and told him that the royal family needed a clear strategy in dealing with the renegade royals,” Jobson writes in the book. “Charles agreed.”
The royals decided to no longer treat Harry as a trusted royal—meaning they would never meet with him alone and would always have another person in the room with them.
“Not only had Harry heavily implied to Oprah that a member of the family was racist, but he’d had the gall to claim that his father and brother knew they were ‘trapped’ in their royal roles—‘and I have huge compassion for that,’ he had added, twisting the knife,” Jobson writes. “Both Charles and William had been extremely upset by Harry’s arrogance, aghast at his lack of discretion and furious that he’d had the audacity to speak about their supposed feelings.”
Our King also said of the September 10 Windsor Castle walkabout with William, wife Kate, Harry, and wife Meghan that the Princess of Wales said it was “one of the hardest things she’d ever had to do,” Marie Claire reported earlier today. Among the book’s other explosive claims, Jobson writes that Her late Majesty had the room swept for bugs before the infamous Sandringham Summit, and refused to let Meghan join through a video link because it wasn’t thought to be secure. The Queen also thought her grandson Harry was “so consumed” by his love for Meghan that it was “clouding his judgment,” Jobson writes.
The book also reveals that Charles was frustrated at Harry’s “bad manners” in 2016 for releasing a statement confirming his relationship with Meghan but demanding they be left alone—and overshadowing Charles’ Gulf tour in the process, and that Her late Majesty was mystified by Harry and Meghan’s public criticisms of the monarchy and members of the royal family and described their behavior as “quite mad.”
Our King is out April 13.
