King Charles accused of 'sacrificing' Prince Harry to 'look better' after Queen Camilla affair scandal

LONDON, ENGLAND: King Charles III was accused of "sacrificing" Prince Harry to enhance his and then-Camilla Parker-Bowles' "dumpster fire" public personas when he was Prince of Wales in the 2000s.

Princess Diana, the then Princess of Wales, died in a car accident in Paris in 1997, leaving Charles and Camilla single and their reputations at an all-time low.

The new documentary 'Queen Camilla: The Wicked Stepmother' claimed that Camilla hired public relations specialist Mark Bolland to help sell her relationship with Charles to the public, using William and Harry as part of the plan, per The Royal Observer.

King Charles accused of 'sacrificing' Prince Harry to preserve his and Queen Camilla's reputation

According to Queen Camilla's friend, King Charles III has come under fire for "sacrificing" Prince Harry to improve his public image. Prince Harry claimed that Bolland took advantage of his drug use as a teenager to improve Charles and Camilla's reputation.

The now-king and queen began a gradual process of reintroducing the "most hated woman in Britain" to the British public in the years following Diana's untimely death in August 1997.

The couple made their public debut together in 1999 following Camilla's initial encounter with Prince William the previous year.

Harry reportedly battled substance abuse in the early to mid-2000s, which garnered media attention in 2002 when he was called "Harry Pothead." He reportedly spent a day in a drug rehabilitation facility in 2002 after confessing to using cannabis and consuming alcohol.

It was alleged that Charles chose to "shock" his 17-year-old son after learning that he had smoked drugs at home and had consumed a lot of alcohol at a nearby bar, later disputed by many royal reporters.

However, royal journalist Charles Rae claimed in the documentary, "Any royal involved in illegal activities is a great story, the only problem with this was, this was spin."

"This had not happened as they said. What had happened was that Harry had gone to this drug rehabilitation place two or three weeks beforehand," he added.

Rae said, "It was spun then to try and show people that 'don't worry, dad's taken care of it. He's taken him to a drug rehabilitation unit to show him the evils of his ways.'"

According to royal historian Robert Jobson, who appeared in the documentary, the News of the World "did a deal" with the Palace and then fabricated the story "to make Charles look as good as possible."

The documentary claimed that Bolland "softened the story" by using his close relationship with editor Rebekah Brooks, and then Wade, when the News of the World presented their evidence.

To make Charles look good, Bolland allegedly gave Wade "extra details of Harry's royal visit to the rehab center to make Charles look good."

In retrospect, a close friend of the Queen believed that this was a grave error. "I think it was a very bad decision on Bolland's part," said Patronella Wyatt, a journalist and longtime admirer of Charles and Camilla.

"I think Charles was slightly distracted at the time. I think he would probably feel now he shouldn't have allowed that to appear. It does look like a son being sacrificed to make his father look better," Wyatt said.

Prince Harry accused royal family members of getting in 'bed with the devil'

Since then, Prince Harry has accused members of the royal family of having a "bed with the devil" because of their connections to the tabloid media.

The Duke of Sussex noted in a 2023 interview, "Those certain members have decided to get in the bed with the devil, right? To rehabilitate their image. If you need to do that, or you want to do that, you choose to do that — well, that is a choice. That's up to you."

"But the moment that rehabilitation comes at the detriment of others - me, other members of my family - then that's where I draw the line," he said.

Harry further asserted that his family members' "briefings, leaking, and planting" on the day of Queen Elizabeth's death constituted a "horrible reaction."

The Duke of Sussex further denied having "any intention to harm" or "hurt" his brother or King Charles with his memoir 'Spare,' which contains several shocking accusations, per Sky News.