Last night’s ITV interview with Prince Harry was as explosive as expected, with host Tom Bradbury putting all the questions we’ve been dying to ask the duke to him. Why did he write the book? Where does he stand with his family now? What are the chances of reconciliation after all this? While Harry insisted there is still hope, there were allegations from his memoir repeated last night that might make it difficult: the accusation that King Charles wife Camilla leaked or planted stories in a ‘campaign for marriage’ after Harry and William made it clear they didn’t want their father to remarry.
Social media was most alight with reactions around the Camilla saga, and eagle-eyed viewers even picked up on an easy-to-miss moment where Harry may have made a second dig at his stepmother. When discussing the tabloid press fuelling hatred towards his wife, Harry used the example of Jeremy Clarkson’s recent attack on Meghan Markle in The Sun where Jeremy wrote that he was ‘dreaming of the day when she is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chant, “Shame!” and throw lumps of excrement at her.’
In response, Harry said: ‘When we’re talking about accountability, you know, just recently, which I know you know about, the Jeremy Clarkson article… so not only what he said was horrific and is hurtful and cruel towards my wife, but it also encourages other people around the UK and around the world – men particularly – to go and think that it’s acceptable to treat women that way.
‘And to use my stepmother’s words recently as well, there is a global pandemic of violence against women,’ Harry finished.
According to social media users, Harry using Camilla’s own words about the ‘pandemic of violence’ was a dig because the very journalist she is accused of leaking stories to is… Jeremy Clarkson. The pair have a long-standing friendship, with Clarkson telling ITV in another documentary, Camilla’s Country Life, that they’ve been friends since her time guest editing Country Life magazine.
‘I think we get on very well,’ he said. ‘Um, we used to go… perhaps I shouldn’t say this, but we used to go and sneak a crafty fag round the back of things. But I don’t smoke anymore.’
Just two days before Clarkson’s vile comments were made about Meghan in The Sun, Camilla hosted a Christmas lunch in which he was in attendance (as was Meghan’s most fierce critic, Piers Morgan). Buckingham Palace have not released a statement about any of the allegations against Camilla.
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