Prince Harry’s cruel swipe at Queen Camilla with two-word nickname

The Duke of Sussex was not kind about some of his relatives in the book.

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Prince Harry was not very complimentary about his stepmother in his memoir (Image: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

Prince Harry may have recently insisted he will always be a member of the Royal Family, but this hasn’t stopped him criticising certain family members in the past, including his stepmother Queen Camilla. While on the surface the two seemed to always get on, Harry’s 2023 memoir Spare made it appear otherwise.

This is because Harry, 41, was not very complimentary of his father King Charles’ wife in his memoir, even giving her a harsh two-word nickname – the “Other Woman”. As well as talking about how he pleaded with his father not to marry Camilla before their 2005 vows, Harry also claimed that he had inklings that the pair were having an affair while Charles was still married to Princess Diana, Harry and William’s mother.

Harry claimed this caused conflicting feelings for him and his older brother Prince William, who has hardly spoken to Harry since the memoir hit the shelves in 2023.

As reported by Daily Record, in his memoir Harry spoke about how his mother Diana once said that there were “three” people in her marriage to Charles, who was then The Prince of Wales.

This comment, which Diana made in a televised interview, was believed to be regarding Charles’ affair with Camilla.

Harry said in his memoir: “She left Willy and me out of the equation.

“We didn’t understand what was going on with her and Pa, certainly, but we intuited enough, we sensed the presence of the Other Woman, because we suffered the downstream effects.”

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Harry released his memoir in 2023 (Image: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

The duke continued: “Willy long harboured suspicions about the Other Woman, which confused him, tormented him, and when those suspicions were confirmed he felt tremendous guilt for having done nothing, said nothing, sooner.”

Charles and Camilla made their first official public appearance together in 1999 – almost two years after Princess Diana’s death in a Paris car crash.

The royal couple, who are now King and Queen, then married in 2005. Both Prince William and Prince Harry were present for the wedding.