Prince William supported his stepbrother Tom Parker Bowles's decision to speak out against Prince Harry's allegations about Queen Camilla, commentator Kinsey Schofield claims.
Parker Bowles hit back at his stepbrother's criticism against his mother, insisting there was no "end game" to her rekindled romance with King Charles III.
Charles and Camilla famously revived their relationship whilst married to other people at the end of the 1980s, which resulted in the failure of both of their first marriages, the Express reports. The Duke of Sussex previously slammed his 'dangerous' stepmother for the role she played in the divorce of his parents in 1996 and branded the Queen Consort as a 'villain'.
Schofield alleges that the Princes of Wales would apparently like to publicly back up his stepbrother but is limited by the long-standing Royal Family unwritten rule of "never complain, never explain."
The American To Di For host said: "I love that Tom spoke out about this because William would like to. He's fought for a change in strategy and he's been shut down.
"And Tom does not have to stay under the never complain, never explain mantra because he's not a member of the Royal Family. He spoke out to defend his mother and I don't think Camilla was crawling, or desperately trying to get the crown."
She told Sky News Australia: "Her great-grandmother was Alice Keppel who was happily the mistress of the King – I don't think she even thought she'd get to marry him let alone be the Queen Consort. So good for her."
Parker Bowles publicly defended his mother's relationship with the King and argued that she had just finally married the man she had been in love with for so long and was not pursuing some sort of strategy.
He told The News Agents podcast: "I think change happens but I don’t care what anyone says – this wasn’t any sort of end game. She married the person she loved and this is what happened.”
The Duke of Sussex claimed in his controversial memoir Spare that he and William had 'begged' their father not to marry Camilla in 2005. He also alleged that the King and Camilla agreed with their spin doctor to throw Harry 'right under the bus' by leaking stories about his drug use in order to improve their public standing.
The Prince also claimed that William had lamented the couple's PR strategy as he wrote: "Pa and Camilla’s people had planted a story or stories about him, and Kate, and the kids, and he wasn’t going to take it any more. Give Pa and Camilla an inch, he said, they take a mile.”
According to author Robert Jobson, the Prince of Wales apparently demanded the Royal Family adopt a 'clear strategy' to handle Harry's claims accordingly after his departure from The Firm with Meghan Markle.
William was particularly furious with his younger brother and sister-in-law after the couple made multiple shocking allegations against the Royal family in a 90-minute bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021.
Jobson wrote in his book Our King: Charles III: The Man and the Monarch Revealed that the heir to the throne was troubled by the "total of discretion" the couple had showcased.
Jobson wrote: "In the aftermath of the Oprah interview, William went to his father and told him that the Royal Family needed a clear strategy in dealing with the Sussexes, the renegade royals.
"He became a key figure in the ongoing conversations between the Queen and Charles on how to counter the 'groundless' verbal attacks. Of course, Her Majesty would have the final say, but she needed Charles and William to guide her."
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