Queen Camilla has become more popular in recent years, but as her approval rating continues to improve, Prince Harry‘s dwindles.
“I think it’s very interesting to see how Harry’s position and Camilla’s position within the royal family has reversed,” journalist Petronella Wyatt said in the documentary Queen Camilla: The Wicked Stepmother?
“Because Camilla used to be the hated and despised outcast, now Harry’s the outcast and Camilla’s seen with affection as a sort of safe pair of hands,” Wyatt added.
Princess Diana dubbed Camilla the third person in her marriage to King Charles, resulting in Camilla being haunted by the affair throughout her royal career.
“I think Camilla, far from being the simple country woman that we were sold is actually a very shrewd politically media savvy person,” Diana’s former private secretary Patrick Jephson noted.
“We are told that the campaign to rehabilitate Camilla has been subtle,” Joseph noted. “I don’t think it’s been subtle at all. It’s got all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.”
In Spare, Harry accused his stepmother of leaking negative stories about him.
“I think Charles’ office was pretty cold-blooded in the way they used Harry, misrepresenting facts in order to portray his father and his mistress in a better light,” Jephson explained.
