Prince Harry has been opening up about certain members of the royal family. He has certainly not spared Camilla, the queen consort.
In his memoir, Spare, the Duke of Sussex reveals his true feelings about Camilla's intentions. He also shared that he and brother William asked their father not to marry her.
Harry sat down with Good Morning America's Michael Strahan this week to further delve into what he wrote about his stepmother.
Michael read Harry's words back to him in the interview. "In a funny way, I even wanted Camilla to be happy. Maybe she'd be less dangerous if she was happy?" he read aloud.
Michael continued, asking, "When your father married Camilla, you wrote, 'I had complex feelings about gaining a stepparent, who I thought had recently sacrificed me on her personal PR altar.' What has she done at that point, you felt?"
Harry didn't hold back, referencing his stepmother's affair with his father while Charles was still married to Princess Diana. "I have a huge amount of compassion for her, you know, being the third person within my parents' marriage," Prince Harry said.
The comment was also a clear nod to one Diana herself made in the infamous 1995 Panorama interview. "There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded," the late princess said.
Harry continued, saying that Camilla's intentions prior to marrying his father really couldn't be trusted. "She had a reputation or an image to rehabilitate, and whatever conversations happened, whatever deals or trading was made right at the beginning, she was led to believe that that would be the best way to doing it," he said.
Michael asked Harry what his relationship with the queen consort looks like these days.
"We haven't spoken for a long time," Harry said. "I love every member of my family, despite the differences. So when I see her, we're perfectly pleasant with each other."
"She's my stepmother," he went on. "I don't look at her as an evil stepmother. I see someone who married into this institution, and done everything she can to improve her own reputation and her own image, for her own sake."
Anderson Cooper also inquired about Camilla during his 60 Minutes interview with Harry. "You wrote that she started a campaign in the British press to pave the way for a marriage. And you wrote, 'I even wanted Camilla to be happy. Maybe she'd be less dangerous if she was happy,'" he said, reading Harry's words. "How was she dangerous?"
"That made her dangerous because of the connections that she was forging within the British press," Harry replied. "And there was open willingness on both sides to trade of information. And with a family built on hierarchy, and with her, on the way to being queen consort, there was gonna be people or bodies left in the street because of that."
