Queen Camilla still ‘hurt’ by Prince Harry’s claims in Spare after he …

A close friend of Queen Camilla has suggested the royal is hurt by Prince Harry's claims against her in his bombshell memoir Spare. In Spare, Harry wrote that his future stepmother leaked negative stories about him to the press to improve her own public image and said she "sacrificed him on her personal PR alter". In interviews promoting Spare he has also described Camilla as "dangerous" and a "villain" who left "bodies in the street".

Although Camilla has not formally acknowledged her stepson's claims, a close friend has gone on the record to reveal the Queen's true feelings about the slights. In an interview with The Sunday Times published over the weekend, Camilla's lady-in-waiting, the Marchioness of Lansdowne Fiona Mary Petty-Fitzmaurice, said the Queen Consort is still hurt by Harry's claims. "Of course it bothers her, of course it hurts," she said.

"But she doesn't let it get to her. "Her philosophy is always, 'Don't make a thing of it and it will settle down - least said, soonest mended'." Harry's attendance at King Charles' coronation on May 6 will be his first time seeing the royal family since Spare's release in January and he will make the trip without his wife Meghan Markle or their two children.

Discussing the Marchioness' revelations on his nightly program, Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan criticised Harry for agreeing to attend the coronation after repeatedly insulting the royal institution. "I don't blame Camilla," he said on Tuesday night's episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored. "For this guy to have the brass neck to now roll up at the coronation of the head of an institution that he's just spent the last two or three years absolutely burying.

"I think it's outrageous, and for poor Camilla, to have to see him." He then added he "never want to hear him talk about privacy again". "Entitled, hypocritical gob," he said. 

Morgan went on to defend the Queen's track record of keeping personal issues private.  "Camilla is the very best of royals: never explain, never complain. Suck it up, do your duty," he said.

"That's why people now like Camilla and when you're a hypocritical rat bag the public soon go off you, as (Harry) is finding out in the polls." The host went on to accuse Harry and Meghan of using royal events to maintain their commercial appeal, despite criticising the institution.   "I'm sick of the pair of them," Morgan said.

"Stay in California, do your stuff.

Take the titles away and don't turn up at the royal events to just keep your little royal fleecing going, that's all its about.

"Total hypocrisy."