Former Royal insider makes bombshell claim about Prince Harry and Queen Camilla

The royal butler has made a bombshell claim about Prince Harry and his relationship with Queen Camilla

The former royal butler to King Charles has made a bombshell claim about Prince Harry and Queen Camilla’s relationship, as he simply says: “I don’t understand what Harry said.”

Grant Harrold was with the Royal Family between 2004 to 2011 at the King’s country estate, Highgrove, in Gloucestershire.

He shared how he got to know both Prince William and Prince Harry rather closely during this time, with both men in their late teens and early 20s at this point.

In a new interview, he has now claimed he first met Prince Harry at 19, with the first encounter between the pair stemming from the prince allegedly throwing a water balloon at the butler during a playfight.

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He went on to allege the two even shared a takeaway prior to the prince heading off to Sandhurst Military Academy.

While Mr Harrold was at Highgrove, he also witnessed King Charles and Camilla’s engagement – something which was widely discussed in Prince Harry’s memoir, Spare.

In the book, the prince claimed he and Prince William had ‘begged’ their father not to marry Queen Camilla.

He wrote: “We support you, we said. We endorse Camilla, we said. ‘Just please don’t marry her. Just be together, Pa.’ He didn’t answer. But she answered. Straight away.

“Shortly after our private summits with her, she began to play the long game, a campaign aimed at marriage and eventually the Crown (with Pa’s blessing, we presumed),” the Mirror reported.

But for Mr Harrold, who was at the wedding back in 2005, he recalled William and Harry decorating their father’s car with ‘Just Married’ signs as both of them raced after the car as the newlyweds drove away following their wedding reception.

And he says what he saw was a far cry from what Harry wrote in his memoir. He told The Telegraph: “The four of them, I promise you, got on so well. And that’s why I don’t understand what Harry’s said, I really don’t understand.

“Because I saw them. I saw them having dinners together, I saw them having drinks together, I saw them going to parties together.”

He also recalls seeing “no animosity” between any of the Royals, adding: “The King used to do things to make them [William and Harry] laugh and giggle.”

Harrold’s comments come as he prepares to his own memoir from his time at Highgrove called The Royal Butler: My remarkable life of Royal Service, which charts his journey from a young boy growing up in North Lanarkshire to working for the then future King.

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In Spare, Harry mentioned Camilla on more than 60 occasions, often branding her as “the Other Woman”. He also accused the Queen of being “dangerous” and leaking negative stories to the press, allegedly “sacrificing him on her personal PR altar”.

He also pondered whether she would become his and William’s “wicked stepmother” before her marriage to Charles, as they continued to grieve the loss of their mother.

In his bombshell interview with the BBC back in May, Harry said that “some members of my family will never forgive me” for writing his memoir. But he added: “It would be nice to have that reconciliation part now. If they don’t want that, that’s entirely up to them.”