King Charles incredibly upset after Netflix series Harry and Meghan
King Charles is said to be “incredibly upset” at being branded a liar after Harry and Meghan’s Netflix series attacked the royal family on multiple fronts.
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Tempers are “flaring” and resentment is brewing within the royal family over the Harry & Meghan Netflix series with King Charles said to be “incredibly upset” at being branded a liar by his youngest son, saying this has been an “annus horribilis” for him.
As the new monarch gears up to deliver his first Christmas speech reflecting on a year which has seen him lose his beloved mother The Queen, royal insiders say the King has been left “very low” by the Duke and Duchess’s claims in the tell-all documentary series by the streaming giant.
“The King has not watched the series but is aware of the headlines and is said to be taking this very personally … I think he’s incredibly upset, tempers are flaring, let’s say, the strain is evident, he feels very badly betrayed by his son, as does William by his brother,” UK royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliam told News Corp.
“Harry has done an incredible amount of harm to the monarchy by chronicling their lives over the last few years and created a great sense of mistrust from the family.
“The King has only been King for three months since The Queen died, and already he has been saying this has turned out to be an annus horribilis for him.
“Let’s not forget, he has lost his mother, to whom he was incredibly close, dreaded becoming King but got on with it to ensure a seamless transition for the sake of the nation. And has watched his son leave the fold and make a movie with his wife betraying the royal family, smearing him, his brother William and Kate and, above all, his grandmother.
“I can pretty much guarantee Prince Harry and Meghan will not be invited to the Coronation.
“Charles’s short reign as monarch and his first Christmas speech has been bookended by this brutal Netflix dramatisation.”
Indeed Queen Elizabeth II endured her own horrible year in 1992, a year plagued by divorces, separations and scandals which she herself described as “tumultuous.” Delivering her now famous speech on November 24 to mark her Ruby Jubilee, she said: “1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure.
“In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an annus horribilis.”
In Harry and Meghan’s modern-day Elizabethan revenge tragedy in part two of the Netflix docuseries, Harry accuses Charles of telling untruths to his face and Her Majesty of saying nothing at the now infamous ‘Sandringham Summit’, and told of the “heartbreaking” rift with his brother.
He said: ‘It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me and my father say things that just simply weren’t true. And my grandmother, you know, quietly sit there and take it all in’.
The Duke of Sussex claimed: “I went in with the same proposal that we’d already made publicly, but once I got there I was given five options – one being all in, no change, five being all out.
“I chose option three in the meeting – half in, half out. Have our own jobs but also work in support of the Queen. It became very clear very quickly that goal was not up for discussion or debate”.
Harry claimed the Palace did not seek his permission to put out a joint statement denying claims William “bullied” the Sussexes out of the Royal Family.
“I couldn’t believe it. No one had asked me permission to put my name to a statement like that … [Meghan] burst into floods of tears, because within four hours they were happy to lie to protect my brother … and yet they were never willing to tell the truth to protect us.”
Prince Harry then claimed Prince William broke a pact.
Referring to their royal communications teams, Harry said: “William and I both saw what happened in our dad’s office and we made an agreement that we would never let that happen to our office.”
In episode four of Netflix’s Harry & Meghan, he said: ‘I would far rather get destroyed in the press than play along with this game or this business of trading, and to see my brother’s office copy the very same thing that we promised the two of us would never ever do, that was heartbreaking.”
Royal writer and author of The New Royals, Katie Nicholl, said the Netflix series had inflicted irreparable damage on the relationship between the brothers.
“Harry’s revealed the brothers are not on talking terms, they just simply feel that any reconciliation is not in the cards because they can’t trust that it’s not going to end up in a TV show or in a book,” she explained.
“There’s a lot of tension, there’s a lot of upset, there’s a lot of anger and resentment, and any reconciliation is really quite far down the line.
“That said, William won’t hear a bad word said against his brother.”
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