Prince Harry has claimed King Charles wanted to avoid supporting Meghan financially for fear that the “resplendent” Duchess would steal the limelight from him.
In one of many comparisons the Duke makes between Meghan and his late mother, Harry claimed the King was worried she would be the next Diana, and expressed a hope that Meghan would continue working as an actress after marrying into the family.
According to his new memoir Spare, Harry told his father that Meghan would likely not continue to do so, to which he says the King responded: “Well, my dear son, you already know that we don’t have money to spare.”
The reality, Harry claims to have realised, was that Charles had previously experienced being cast into the shadows and could not face “a novel and resplendent” royal who would take the limelight from him and Queen Camilla and “dominate the monarchy”.
In an apparent reference to his mother Diana, the Prince added: “He had experienced that before and he had no interest in letting it happen to him again.”
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