Buckingham Palace couldn’t block it a new television documentary on Queen Camilla. A team of journalists from the British broadcaster Channel 4, no stranger to irreverent programs towards the Royal Family, it aims to shed light once and for all on the truthfulness of the accusations made by Prince Harry to the wife of King Charles III. But is Camilla really a wicked and dangerous stepmother?
All the secrets of Queen Camilla in a new documentary
This time it is not a documentary that bears the signature of the Sussexes, but the Royals are still worried about the type of revelations that could emerge. The new program will focus on 76-year-old Camilla and, as well as offering an intimate portrait of the new queen, it intends to explore it in detail too the complex relationship with Prince Harrywith whom he seems to have always had very cold contacts.
Was Queen Camilla really plotting against Harry?
In Sparehis controversial autobiography released a year ago, Harry wrote that for years the current queen has passed private information about him to the media, colluding with the directors of the English tabloids. This was to rehabilitate herself in the eyes of British subjects, who until then had hated her for the role she played in the breakdown of the union between Charles and Diana. A strategy that worked perfectlyhelping Parker Bowles gradually regain public respect and become one of the most beloved Royals.
One of Harry and Meghan’s last appearances on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with Camilla and the rest of the Royal Family London, July 2018 (Getty Images)
The “deal” with the British media
However, Camilla’s success had disastrous consequences for Harry. The media would, in fact, have asked for something in return: another Royal had to be sacrificed in his place and Camilla would have chosen the rebel Harry, who often ended up in the newspapers in his teenage years for his nocturnal raids.
Harry with Charles and Camilla at the Invictus Games, London, September 2014 (Getty Images)
The English may change their minds about Queen Camilla
King Charles’ collaborators have always denied Camilla’s alleged strategy but fear that the documentary could start a chain of speculation. These could end up with damage the queen’s reputationnegatively influencing his popularity, which has recently reached very high levels in his homeland thanks to the commitment shown in many social causes and above all to the profound loyalty shown towards the monarchical institution.
Harry didn’t want his father to remarry
The prince also admitted that he had begged his father not to marry his lover, before the wedding celebrated in Windsor in April 2005, fearing – as did his brother William – that Camilla could turn into an “evil stepmother”. Harry also complained that once he left Clarence House, the king’s London home, Camilla wasted no time in transforming her stepson’s rooms into a personal spacealso obtaining a spacious walk-in closet.
Charles and Camilla with their children on their wedding day, Windsor, 9 April 2005 (WireImage)
Camilla responds with a documentary of her own
According to what a friend revealed, Camilla would have reacted to Harry’s accusations without getting angry but simply rolling her eyes. This time, however, is preparing to respond with a documentary that bears his signature, currently in preparation. The Queen invited a television crew to follow her daily work, in her office and in her Royal commitments, in particular those related to his campaign against domestic abuse.
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