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The Duchess of Sussex can “smell weakness a mile off” and King Charles “reeks” of it, royal writer Tom Bower has claimed. His allegation comes after Prince Harry attacked his father and other senior royals in his memoir Spare. Mr Bower claimed the monarch fears his reign could be ruined by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s revelations, including over King Charles’s marriage to Diana, Princess of Wales, and his extra-marital affair with the then Camilla Parker Bowles.
Mr Bower said: “[H]oming in on any human weakness seems to me to be Meghan’s speciality. Just as she humiliated her own father and dumped her family and many friends, she appears vengeful against Harry’s family for perceived slights.
“Hence Harry saying last week that his family should apologise.”
The author, writing in the Daily Mail, added: “As someone who has climbed the very greasy pole that leads to success in the dog-eat-dog world of American television, Meghan can smell weakness a mile off and Charles positively reeks of it.”
Mr Bower’s claims come after reports the King has shied away from confronting his younger son in the wake of his Netflix series and bombshell memoir.
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There have also been reports of a proposed peace summit with the King seeking reconciliation with Harry.
The Duke of Sussex said recently that he had junked half the draft of his memoir due to its length, fuelling speculation there could be a second volume.
King Charles may wish to avert more allegations on the Sussexes’ part by suing for peace, but according to Mr Bower this would jeopardise his popularity with Britons, a majority of which think badly of Harry and Meghan.
In contrast to Mr Bower’s claims, other royal experts say the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will stay out of the public eye after weeks of claims and revelations.
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He said if Harry and Meghan “have got any sense” they will have “a period of reflection” until after King Charles III’s coronation on May 6.
Mr Myers recalled Sussex biographer Omid Scobie’s recent appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, during which he suggested the Sussexes may retreat from the public eye for the rest of the year.
Mr Scobie, the co-author of Finding Freedom, argued that the “honesty” in Harry’s memoir is the result of a man who for all of his life “hasn’t been able to share a word of it”.
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News of a possible summit between the King and Sussexes were first reported in the Sunday Times.
A source told the publication: “It’s going to take flexibility on all sides, but it can be done, it’s fixable.
“It needs Harry over here, in the room with the King and Prince of Wales, a couple of other family members, some of ‘his people’ he trusts who always had his back, so he doesn’t think he’s being ambushed. Someone like Elf [Ed Lane Fox, Harry’s former private secretary] and Christopher [Lord Geidt, the late Queen’s former private secretary who advised the Sussexes].”
Some have said such a meeting would need to take place before King Charles’s coronation.
There has been much speculation as to whether the Sussexes will be invited to the historic occasion with one source telling the Independent the Royal Family will extend an invitation, but it would be very difficult for Harry and Meghan to attend given all that has been said.
Harry was asked directly if he would attend the coronation during his interview with ITV’s Tom Bradbury, which aired last week.
The prince dodged the question by saying: “A lot can happen between now and then.”
However, a source told The Sun some members of the Royal Family do not want the Sussexes to attend.
They said: “There have been discussions among the family, including Edward and Anne.
“They do not want private conversations at the coronation making it into the paperback edition of Spare.”
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