Royal commentator Camilla Tominey wrote that the Queen Consort “isn’t the type to bear grudges”, as her companion the Marchioness of Lansdowne said in April: “Of course it bothers her, of course it hurts. But she doesn’t let it get to her.
“Her philosophy is always, ‘Don’t make a thing of it and it will settle down – least said, soonest mended’.”
One former employee added: “If you think of all the years when she nearly had a bread roll thrown at her – how did she respond throughout that period?
“She was just really stoic. Her most admirable quality is certainly her sense of humour.”
The Duke of Sussex wrote about Camilla in Spare: “I have complex feelings about gaining a step-parent who I thought had recently sacrificed me on her personal PR altar.”
He was referring to an incident in which Camillia had allegedly leaked a story involving William to the press, although it later emerged it was leaked by her former assistant who was subsequently let go.
Harry claimed the incident in 2019 left William “seething”, adding: “Pa and Camilla’s people had planted a story or stories about him, and Kate, and the kids. Give Pa and Camilla an inch, they take a mile.”
In spite of attending the King and Queen’s Coronation last month, Harry is still far from patching up relations with his estranged family.
It was reported that in the lead-up to the big day there had been moments of “genuine co-operation” between the Sussexes and Buckingham Palace.
However on the day of the ceremony itself Harry flew straight back to the US once the service at Westminster Abbey wrapped up, not speaking to either King Charles or Prince William.
Ms Tominey wrote: “While the Sussexes may be impatient for an apology, their royal relatives appear in no hurry whatsoever to bury the hatchet.
“The emergence of a letter written by Meghan to the King, expressing her concerns about unconscious bias in the Royal family, seems to have put paid to any imminent hope of reconciliation.”
