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Camilla ‘astounded’ by Prince Harry’s latest attack on royal family

The Queen Consort is said to be reeling after being labelled a “dangerous” person who “got in bed with the devil” by her stepson.

‘Astounded’: Camilla reacts to Harry

Queen Consort Camilla has reportedly been left reeling by Prince Harry’s claims about her in recent interviews.

Camilla’s close friend told Vanity Fair that the former Duchess of Cornwall is “just astounded by the whole thing.”

Sources close to King Charles III, meanwhile, told the magazine that the monarch, 74, refuses to tolerate any comments made about his wife, 75, and believes his son, 38, crossed a line when mentioning her.

Harry’s latest onslaught of allegations include that his stepmother had planted stories to make herself look better in the press after marrying Charles in 2005 following a highly publicised affair.

“Certain members have got in bed with the devil to rehabilitate their image, but that rehabilitation has come at the detriment of others,” Harry said in an interview with ITV.

Camilla and Harry in 2015. Picture: Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images
Camilla and Harry in 2015. Picture: Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images

The renegade royal also went after Camilla in his new memoir, Spare, out Tuesday, writing that he and his brother, Prince William, urged their father not to marry their “wicked stepmother.”

“Despite Willy and me urging him not to, Pa was going ahead. We pumped his hand, wished him well. No hard feelings,” he wrote. “We recognised that he was finally going to be with the woman he loved, the woman he’d always loved.”

Despite his son’s pleas, Charles went through with his wedding to Camilla. Picture: Graeme Robertson/Getty Images
Despite his son’s pleas, Charles went through with his wedding to Camilla. Picture: Graeme Robertson/Getty Images

Harry also opened up about how Camilla transformed his bedroom into her personal dressing room shortly after he moved out of Clarence House.

“I tried not to care. But especially the first time I saw it, I cared,” he wrote.

Harry made a number of startling claims about his stepmother on 60 Minutes. Picture: CBS
Harry made a number of startling claims about his stepmother on 60 Minutes. Picture: CBS

Neither Kensington Palace nor Buckingham Palace have commented on Spare.

The Duke of Sussex said he has not spoken with Camilla, or his other family members, in “a long time.”

“I love every member of my family, despite the differences,” he said on Good Morning America on Monday. “When I see [Camilla], we’re perfectly pleasant with each other. … I don’t look at her as an evil stepmother. I see someone who married into this institution and has done everything that she can to improve her own reputation and her own image for her own sake.”

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and reproduced with permission.

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