Former royal butler Grant Harrold is confused by Prince Harry’s ongoing feelings about King Charles III, Prince William and more.
Harrold, 47, detailed his seven years as the butler for Charles and his family in the upcoming book The Royal Butler: My Remarkable Life of Royal Service. The Telegraph published details from the upcoming memoir on Monday, August 18 — including Harrold’s take on Harry’s relationship with William, Charles and Queen Camilla.
“The four of them, I promise you, got on so well,” Harrold claimed. “And that’s why I don’t understand what Harry’s said, I really don’t understand.”
He continued, “I saw them having dinners together, I saw them having drinks together, I saw them going to parties together.”
A “trust issue” between King Charles III and Prince Harry might be the reason their royal family feud continues. Royal biographer Robert Hardman — author of Charles III: New King, New Court — said the rift won’t be healed “anytime soon” while speaking at the Hay Festival in Wales on Monday, May 27. He credited […]
Harrold recalled there being “no animosity” between Harry and his immediate family during his time as their butler.
“The king used to do things to make them laugh and giggle,” he added.
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Harry and wife Meghan Markle parted ways with the royals in 2020 and relocated to California. The couple later spoke out in a tell-all CBS interview in 2021 and Harry detailed their family struggles in his 2023 book, Spare.
More recently, Harry publicly discussed his family’s rift in a bombshell BBC interview earlier this year, after losing his appeal for government-funded security in the U.K. Since Harry and Meghan moved to the United States, their security measures in the Duke of Sussex’s home country have been determined on a case-by-case basis.
“I can’t see a world in which I would bring my wife and children back to the UK at this point,” Harry said at the time. “I love my country, I always have done, despite what some people in that country have done.”
Another strained relationship in the royal family. Prince Harry has kept details about his father, Prince Charles, relatively to himself through the years, but after his and wife Meghan Markle’s exit in 2020, the Duke of Sussex got real about tension with his dad. Over the years, Harry publicly applauded Charles for his parenting skills […]
During the same interview, Harry alluded to Charles’ cancer diagnosis, which was revealed in January 2024. Harry also claimed that his father “won’t speak to me” and alluded that Charles had something to do with him losing the appeal.
“I would love reconciliation with my family. There’s no point in continuing to fight anymore,” Harry said during the May sit-down interview. “Life is precious. I don’t know how much longer my father has.”
He added, “There is a lot of control and ability in my father’s hands. Ultimately, this whole thing could be resolved through him. Not necessarily by intervening, but by stepping aside, allowing the experts [to] do what is necessary.”
The Royal Butler: My Remarkable Life of Royal Service is set to be released next month.
