Prince Harry’s book lacks ‘concrete examples’ to back his allegations, says royal expert

PRINCE Harry’s book Spare fails to identify stories that he says have been deliberately planted in the media by other royals to damage him, according to royal commentator Jennie Bond.

She told GB News: “I feel I’m in one of those wheels you give to your guinea pig, it goes round and round and we’ve just been going round around for 30 years, but it’s obviously extremely sensational.

“What I didn’t get from the book were concrete examples of his allegations. He’s absolutely got it in for the press. We know that he feels he needs to reform the press. He’s on a mission, a one-man mission to reform and change the press, root and branch.

“But I haven’t got examples of these negative stories which he says were planted with the tabloids and generally with the media at his expense.”

She added: “The only thing you can come up with in the interviews thus far was going back to the bridesmaid story, who made who cry – who cares anyway? I think it is short on that kind of detail to back up his allegations.

“Some of it is extremely poignant, of course, it is about Diana’s death and the trauma he suffered afterwards. And some of it is so petty and trivial that I hold my hands up in horror.

“I do not care that they had to shop at IKEA and found that demeaning.”

On the accusation of the Royals being racist, Ms Bond continued: “My goodness me, he let his whole family in the UK be hung out to dry over that accusation of racism, which he says the Press put out there.

“If they didn’t think it was racist, they should have said ‘no, that’s not right’ but they didn’t do for the UK family what they felt should have been done for them, so there’s a lot of anomalies in the book.”

She added: “He also feels that if there were to be a reconciliation, which seems quite unlikely in the foreseeable future anyway, that the effect of the reconciliation between him and his family would ripple across the world.

“So we’re going to have global peace and everyone’s going to love one another. Maybe John Lennon’s still around?”

On his claim about Camilla planting stories about him, she said: “Where is he getting this from? I really don’t know.

“He’s tone deaf on Camilla, because he said in that interview with Tom Bradby that his remarks about Camilla were not scathing.

I think opinions as well as recollections may vary on that.”

She added: “I do wonder if there’s one thing that the Palace could do, which is to issue the report into allegations that Meghan bullied her staff.

“Now, either it’s true that she did or she has been vindicated, and I think the result of the transparency of putting that out in the open would be illuminating.

“Perhaps they’re trying to protect her or perhaps they’re trying to protect themselves.

“I have no idea but I think that could be key perhaps to who’s mostly right and who’s mostly wrong in this long saga.”