Queen Camilla’s son doesn’t care what Prince Harry thinks — he says his mom married for love.
Tom Parker Bowles slammed the Duke of Sussex on The News Agents podcast for suggesting Camilla was a “villain” who “played the long game” to get her hands on the crown.
“I don’t care what anyone says — this wasn’t any type of end game. She married the person she loved and that is what happened,” Parker Bowles said.
Harry wrote in his bombshell memoir “Spare” that Camilla would leak stories about members of the Royal Family with a purpose to strengthen her image and status.
“I have complex feelings about gaining a step-parent who I assumed had recently sacrificed me on her personal PR altar,” he wrote in his book of Camilla.
Prince Harry also claimed in a “60 Minutes” interview in January that his step-mother — who he has not seen for the reason that funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in September — is “dangerous” and a “villain” who left “bodies on the street” with a purpose to gain respect from the general public.
Camilla’s friend Fiona Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne, told The Sunday Times that the Queen was “hurt” by his comments.
“In fact it bothers her, in fact it hurts. But she doesn’t let it get to her,” she told the outlet.
“Her philosophy is at all times, ‘Don’t make a thing of it and it would calm down — least said, soonest mended,’” added Petty-Fitzmaurice.
A royal aide also told the outlet that Camilla didn’t make an enormous deal out of it, though.
“It was not stamping of feet or gnashing of teeth, it was far more of an eye-roll response,” the aide said.
One other friend of Camilla’s defended her against Harry’s criticisms, with a confidant exclusively telling the Each day Beast in January, “All Camilla ever did was have the bad luck to fall in love with a prince.”
“Literally the final thing she could care about is being queen. It’s absurd, and anyone who knows her knows it’s absurd,” they said.
After Harry’s true thoughts about Camilla got here out, King Charles evicted Prince Harry and Meghan Markle from Frogmore Cottage.
A source previously told the Mirror: “It was the last straw. Harry was well aware how Camilla could be a red line for his father, and he crossed with flagrant disregard anyway. It was the last word act of disrespect.”
Later within the rare interview, Parker Bowles suggested that individuals have “the correct to protest” the King’s upcoming coronation.
“Everyone has the correct to think what they need,” he said of the reported “Not My King” protests which are set to go down on May 6.
“We live in, thankfully, a free country,” Parker Bowles explained, adding that if residents need to protest “that’s their right to achieve this.”
He continued: “You’re allowed to protest. All of us are allowed to have different views and I believe that makes for an interesting and civilized country.”
