A former royal family butler was reportedly stunned by Prince Harry’s admission of just how unhappy he was within the House of Windsor in his book Spare.
In an interview with FOX News Digital, Grant Harrold, former butler to King Charles, shared his surprise over Harry’s reaction to his royal life in his book, The Royal Butler: My Remarkable Life in Royal Service. He was shocked at Harry’s claims of unhappiness within the palace after the release of his autobiography.
“I’ve openly talked about this because … his memories and mine are very different,” Harrold explained. “You think we [were] in two different households because I talked about this happy family … with his stepmother and everything. He’s saying he didn’t. I never witnessed that.”
“I saw some magazine [clippings] the other day from the king’s wedding,” the former royal butler said. “When you look at these pictures of Harry around his stepmother, both leaving Windsor and chasing after the cars, that’s not somebody who’s unhappy.”
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He concluded, “If he was really that unhappy, I know people who wouldn’t even go to weddings or wouldn’t even get involved because they’re unhappy. And I was there the night before.”
“There was a dinner for [Prince] William, Harry, and the king. It was a lovely occasion. There were no issues.”
Harry publicly disclosed his feelings about royal life in Spare. According to his recollections, Charles and his brother, Prince William, are reportedly driven to protect their own public reputations while treating Harry almost as an outsider.
The Duke of Sussex also discussed his issues with Charles’ wife, Camilla Parker Bowles, whom he called “dangerous” in a 2023 interview with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes, as reported by CNN. He wrote that because she had been the other woman in Charles and Princess Diana‘s marriage for years, Camilla felt she needed to rehabilitate her public image by working with the press.
“That made her dangerous because of the connections that she was forging within the British press. And there was open willingness on both sides to trade of information,” Harry told Cooper.
“And with a family built on hierarchy, and with her, on the way to being Queen Consort, there was gonna be people or bodies left in the street because of that,” Harry concluded.
Little is known about Harry’s relationship with members of the royal family behind closed doors. Publicly, he last saw his father, Charles, in early September, reported PEOPLE Magazine.
He met with Charles inside Clarence House for almost one hour on September 10. Harry’s last face-to-face with his father was in early 2024 after the king revealed he had cancer.
The palace did not respond to Harry’s claims in Spare. Nor have they spoken out against Harrold’s remarks in his book.
