“An Aberrant Conspiracy”. The new book about Prince Harry, in which Queen Camilla allegedly said that Meghan “brainwashed” him, was strongly contested
A new biography of Prince Harry, which claims Queen Camilla allegedly said he was “brainwashed” by his wife Meghan, was described by his spokesman on Saturday as an “outrageous conspiracy theory”.
Harry and Meghan have distanced themselves from the British royal family since stepping down from official duties in 2020 and moving to California, but they continue to attract huge interest both in the UK and abroad.
In excerpts from his new book published in The Times newspaper, the author Tom Bower, who has written a series of biographies about members of the royal family, stated that the two began to argue with the other members of the royal family shortly after their lavish wedding in 2018, notes the Reuters agency, quoted by News.ro.
The couple, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, barely speak to the other members of the royal family, and Harry has rarely seen his father, King Charles, in recent years, even though he is suffering from cancer.
Bower wrote that Harry's older brother, William, and his wife, Kate, were concerned about Meghan's impact on him and saw her as a threat.
“Meghan has brainwashed Harry,” Camilla, the prince's stepmother, told a friend, according to the author.
According to the excerpts, Harry was also shocked by the fall from grace of his uncle, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who lost all his titles and was meanwhile kicked out of the house over his links to the late American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and feared his brother would effectively oust him.
In an unusually harsh response, a spokesman for Harry and Meghan said Bower's comments “were well over the line between criticism and obsession”.
“Those interested in facts will look elsewhere; those looking for outlandish conspiracies and melodrama know exactly where to find them,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
Buckingham Palace declined to comment on behalf of King Charles and Queen Camilla. There was no immediate comment from representatives of Prince William and Kate either, Reuters reports.
