In his memoir, Spare, Prince Harry describes feeling in competition with his brother, Prince William, and being dubbed the “spare.” He also claims that he told his father, King Charles, not to marry Queen Camilla. But someone who has spent a significant amount of time with the royal family was confused by some of these details. After reading Harry’s memoir, former Buckingham Palace butler Grant Harrold couldn’t help but feel like he and Harry had spent time in different households.
Harrold, who spent seven years working for King Charles and wrote a memoir called The Royal Butler, told Fox News Digital that there’s something about Harry’s account of what happened that “doesn’t add up.” Hmm.
In his memoir, Harry wrote about his father’s marriage to Camilla.
And according to Harry, he and his brother were both skeptical of Camilla and shared their concerns with their father. However, King Charles obviously chose to marry Queen Camilla anyway. “Despite Willy and me urging him not to, Pa was going ahead. We pumped his hand, wished him well. No hard feelings,” Harry wrote, per Harper’s Bazaar. “We recognized that he was finally going to be with the woman he loved, the woman he’d always loved.”
Harry also recalled worrying about what it would be like to have a stepmother. “I remember wondering… if she would be cruel to me; if she would be like all the evil stepmothers in the stories,” he added. He claimed that his brother was also worried. “Willy had been suspicious of the Other Woman for a long time, which confused and tormented him,” Harry alleged in the memoir. “When those suspicions were confirmed, he felt agonizing remorse for not having done or said anything before.”
But Harrold claims that Harry didn’t seem ‘unhappy.’
Based on what he observed, Harrold has doubts about how Harry described his relationship with his stepmother. “I saw some magazine [clippings] the other day… from the king’s wedding,” Harrold told Fox News. “When you look at these pictures of Harry around his stepmother, both leaving Windsor and chasing after the cars, that’s not somebody who’s unhappy. If he was really that unhappy, I know people who wouldn’t even go to weddings or wouldn’t even get involved because they’re unhappy.”
He added that from what he remembers, “there were no issues.”
People are different though.
Although Harrold knows people who wouldn’t attend a wedding if they were truly unhappy, it doesn’t mean that everyone is that way. He acknowledged that Harry might’ve kept his true feelings to himself, at least on some level. “With mental health, you sometimes have no idea someone is unhappy about anything,” the former royal butler admitted. “He could have been pretending… I’m not saying he’s not [sincere], but all I know is there was no evidence of him being unhappy at all or suffering from any kind of mental health issues.”
Still, reading Harry’s memoir made him feel like they were living in two different worlds.
According to Harrold, “nobody knew” that Harry was struggling. Reading about Harry’s struggles was jarring for Harrold because he had “never witnessed that.” “His memories and mine are very different,” he said. “You [would] think we [were] in two different households because I talked about this happy family… with his stepmother and everything. He’s saying he didn’t. I never witnessed that.”
Harrold said people can look at the available information, including his memoir, and come to their own conclusions. But he believes that if they do that, they might agree with him. “If they read what I’ve put, look at press clippings or any TV footage from back in the day, they can then make their minds up,” he said. “And I think it’ll be quite obvious that something, as I keep saying, doesn’t add up.”
The butler previously said King Charles ‘doesn’t trust’ Harry.
According to Harrold, Harry’s openness “completely destroyed” his relationship with his family. For this reason, Harrold thinks reconciliati**********************on remains unlikely. “The king doesn’t trust Harry, because of what Harry has said. He worried that he would use it to his advantage. And he has,” he told Page Six. Because Harry “spilled the beans,” there’s always the possibility that he could do it again, he explained.
“If they reconcile, then fall out again, what’s to say there won’t be another book, Netflix series or interview about it?” Harrold questioned.
