Royal sources soundly disparaged assertions that Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, quipped to Prince Harry that it would be amusing if his unborn child with Meghan Markle had ‘ginger Afro hair’.
The explosive assertions were made in Tom Bower’s new no holds barred book: Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors.
The bombshell book has laid bare claims of war at the core of the Royal Family and experts have argued that it paints Meghan Markle as someone who found love with Prince Harry and used his standing for her personal improvement.
Mr Bower’s book conveys Meghan Markle as self-centred, manipulative and demanding and brands Harry as spoiled, poorly educated, simple-minded and demanding. He said that the duo became agents of devastation, but thinks that only Meghan was brilliant enough to execute the plan.
Relations between the Sussexes and the rest of the family have barely recovered since they quit as royals and relocated to California in 2020, and deteriorated after they decided to sit down with Oprah Winfrey in 2021 and fire potshots at the royals including assertions of racism and even ignoring Meghan Markle when she was allegedly suicidal and expectant.
Now Mr Bower has alleged Camilla made the remarks about Harry and Meghan’s unborn baby’s future hairstyle during a conversation with Harry and his family about his relationship with the American actress, but royal sources speaking to a newspaper outlet said the suggestion was silliness, and Clarence House did not comment.
The Sussexes would later claim to Oprah Winfrey that a senior royal, who they refused to name, had also asked how dark the baby’s skin might be when he was born when discussing Archie.
The bombshell biography’s first extraordinary claim was that the Queen privately voiced relief that Meghan wouldn’t be attending Prince Phillip’s funeral.
It claims that the grieving monarch told trusted royal aides on the morning she was due to lay her husband of 73 years to rest at Windsor: ‘Thank goodness Meghan is not coming.’
Mr Bower is known as a top investigative journalist who’s previously written unauthorised books on Boris Johnson, Richard Brandson and Robert Maxwell.
The book, being serialised in The Sun and The Times, says: ‘In Windsor Castle, the Queen was preparing to face the public on one of the saddest days of her life. Philip had been her rock for the previous 70 years.
‘To comply with Covid restrictions she would grieve alone inside the chapel. ‘Thank goodness Meghan is not coming,’ the monarch said in a clear voice to her trusted aides.’
Commenting on Harry and Meghan’s baby was presumably a joke, but depending on your sense of humour I don’t believe that everyone would see the comic side of it, especially when the joke was at someone else’s expense.
It doesn’t matter if no harm was intended, the harm was done. I guess Camilla should have made sure that her audience would find it humorous before saying it.
Most of us say things that might be deemed offensive without realising it but just because they have and someone has taken it the wrong way we don’t all go running to the Race Relations Board, but we don’t have to like it either. People have feelings, even if some of them don’t always express them.
What people say in private is their own business regardless if it’s offensive or not, as long as the person they’re talking about isn’t present at the time, although we don’t really know if Camilla said this and presumably didn’t, on the other hand, she might have, but presumably as a joke, but then before ‘woke’ days this likely wouldn’t have been an issue, and it would have been normal speculation, and I bet even Harry and Meghan wondered the same thing.
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