The fight in the British royals continues: now they accuse Harry of wanting to “demolish” the monarchy

Prince Harry, the youngest son of Carlos III, was charged on Friday with wanting to “demolish” the British royal family with the explosive revelations contained in his memoirs leaked days before its publication, four months after his father’s coronation.

titled Replacement (“En la sombra” in Spanish, but whose English translation is “replacement”), this approximately 500-page autobiography will be released worldwide on January 10thin a context of strong tension within the British monarchy.

He strives for modernize your image since Elizabeth II’s death in September, but has been embroiled in controversies including a godmother’s racist comments to Prince William, Harry’s older brother and heir to the throne.

The book, full of private details about family life, accusations and reproaches, was accidentally put up for sale for a few hours on Thursday from a Spanish bookshop chain, which allowed all British tabloids to get hold of a copy. The Guardian newspaper also obtained a copy.

Left and right of the political spectrum, everyone The prince’s revelations were lashed on Friday38 years old, who shook the monarchy in 2020 when he and his wife Meghan left the institution to go and live in the United States, citing unbearable media and family pressure.

“No one escapes Harry’s brutal mission to tear down the family,” the leftist headlined. Daily mirror.

“Having made the foolish decision to ‘go public’ about his disagreements with the royal family, Harry was no doubt under enormous pressure (…) to spit out all the venom possible“wrote the Daily Mail tabloid.

The newspaper The sun, For his part, he stressed that although the British have sympathized with the tormented prince for years due to the trauma of losing his mother, Princess Diana, as a child in 1997, “no one can justify the destructive and vengeful path chose, throwing his family under a collective worth millions of dollars”.

The Netflix documentary

Harry’s Book follows the Netflix documentary “Harry and Meghan,” in which the couple decide to tell “their” truth about the events leading up to their departure from the family and their new life in North America.

One of the things they seriously denounce is the complicity or in any case the agreement that exists between the royal family and the British tabloids, such as The Sun and the Daily Mail (called “The Broken”).

It is a “society” in which the family he almost has to to supply stories to these newspapers in exchange for good pressbecause after all royalty exists thanks to the taxes of the people, to whom it must inform.

In the documentary, Harry and Meghan allege that the royal family’s press apparatus was in charge of generating scare headlines against Meghan Markle in the tabloids.

Now, after the leaks against the family that surfaced in Spare’s book, these same tabloids are firing back with thick ammunition against the couple.

One of the secrets in the book claims that it was Camilla, the wife of the current King Carlos III, who gave stories to the tabloids about Markle.

Harry defends himself by simply stating this wants to explain his “truth” of what happened.

Thus, for example, he recounts a dispute in 2019 in London during which William, now 40, called the former American actress Meghan Markle, whom his younger brother had married a year earlier, to “difficult”, “rude” and “rough”.

He claims he was jostled and threw him to the ground, hoping the other would hit him back to start a fight.

She further claims that Charles III made “sadistic” jokes about him being Harry’s “real” father, which grew amid rumors of his resemblance to the older James Hewitt, Diana’s lover.

Other sordid details include how he lost his virginity to an elderly woman in a field behind a pub, his use of cocaine as a teenager, the 25 people he killed during his military missions in Afghanistan or the woman, whom he refrains from calling “medium”, who allowed him to contact his late mother.

He also accuses William and his wife Katherine, whom Meghan has attributed to having a “baby brain”, of having encouraged to dress up as a Nazi when he was 20, causing a major scandal.

A bad portrait for a future king

According to royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams, “the worst thing” about the book is “the way William is presented.” “Someone who betrayed his trust (…) someone who really attacked him. Not a very flattering portrait for a future king“, points out.

Already in the documentary series harry and meghanreleased on Netflix in December, Harry accused his brother’s press service of negative media coverage against him and Meghanin his view due to the fact that they were “stealing prominence” from other family members.

Although according to sources cited by the sun, Carlos III and William are saddened by these allegations, Buckingham Palace has not reacted. they actually did through the Rota, the sensationalist newspapers.

“For one thing, when something isn’t debunked, people start to believe it,” Fitzwilliams says. “Second, the royal family has a real problem: how to handle this situation?“He adds.

At the moment, it seems unlikely that Harry and Meghan will be with the family at the new king’s pompous coronation ceremony, scheduled for May 6 at Westminster Abbey.

Clarín writing with information from AFP and files