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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Kayleigh Roberts

How Prince William and Prince Harry Really Felt About King Charles Marrying Queen Camilla, According to Their Former Royal Butler

WINDSOR, ENGLAND - APRIL 9: (EMBARGOED TILL 0001 BST MONDAY 11 APRIL 2005) TRH Prince Charles and The Duchess Of Cornwall, Camilla Parker Bowles pose with their children (L-R) Prince Harry, Prince William, Laura and Tom Parker Bowles, in the white drawing room for the Official Wedding group photo following their earlier marriage at The Guildhall, at Windsor Castle on April 9, 2005 in Berkshire, England. (Photo by Hugo Bernand/ROTA/Anwar Hussein Collection/Getty Images) .

In his 2023 memoir Spare, Prince Harry wrote that he and his older brother, Prince William, had "complex feelings" about their father's decision to remarry in 2005—but former royal butler Grant Harrold says that wasn't clear to people viewing the brothers from the outside.

In an interview with The Telegraph ahead of the publication of his own memoir of royal life, The Royal Butler: My Remarkable Life of Royal Service, Harrold described the day Charles married Camilla, saying that it was the "happiest" he ever saw the now-King, and adding that William and Harry seemed genuinely happy about the union, too.

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