While he was employed by King Charles’ country house Highgrove for seven years, Butler Grant Harrold is now speaking out about his time there. He has met Princes William and Harry for the first time in seven years.
A royal butler who worked for King Charles has claimed Prince Harry’s brutal claims about Queen Camilla don’t add up.
Grant Harrold worked for seven years at Highgrove, the King’s country home in Gloucestershire, from 2004 to 2011. During his time at Highgrove, he got to know both Princes William and Harry, who were in their late teens and early 20s.
In a new interview, the former butler reveals that he first met Harry as a 19-year-old, with their first encounter coming when Harry hit him with a water balloon during a playfight. He says the pair even shared a takeaway in the time before the Duke of Sussex went off to Sandhurst Military Academy.
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Harrold’s Highgrove days also coincided with Charles and Camilla’s engagement announcement and marriage.
In his bombshell memoir Spare, Harry told how he and now estranged brother William begged their father not to marry his now wife. He telling wrote: “We support you, we said. We endorse Camilla, we said. ‘Just please don’t marry her. Just be together, Pa.’ He didn’t answer. But she answered. Straight away.
She began a long-term relationship with her shortly after our private summits, allegedly with Pa’s approval, and the campaign was aimed at getting married and eventually winning the Crown.
However, Harrold, who was present at the wedding in 2005, recalls that William and Harry decorated their father’s car with “Just Married” signs, and the newlyweds raced after the couple left after their wedding reception.
And he says what he saw was a far cry from what Harry wrote in his memoir. He told The Telegraph: “The four of them, I promise you, got on so well. And that’s why I don’t understand what Harry’s said, I really don’t understand.
“Because I saw them,” I witnessed them having dinners together, drinking drinks together, and attending parties with others.
He also recalls that any royals had no animosity, and that William and Harry used to act as a whip and giggle.
The Royal Butler: My remarkable life of Royal Service, a biography of the then-current King, is Harrold’s comment as he prepares to write it. It charts his transition from being a young boy growing up in North Lanarkshire to working for the then-current King.
Harry frequently refers to Camilla in Spare on more than 60 occasions, calling her “the Other Woman.” He also claimed that the Queen was “dangerous” and that she had “stole him on her personal PR altar” by allegedly leaking negative news to the press.
Before marrying to Charles, she and her husband, who were grieving the loss of their mother, considered whether she would become his and William’s “wicked stepmother.”
In his bombshell interview with the BBC back in May, Harry said that “some members of my family will never forgive me” for writing his memoir. But he added: “It would be nice to have that reconciliation part now. If they don’t want that, that’s entirely up to them.”
Source: Mirror
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