{"id":771265,"date":"2026-07-01T03:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/771265\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T03:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:26:18","slug":"smashed-with-a-hammer-royal-expert-reveals-how-prince-harry-put-king-charles-in-difficult-position-as-uk-visit-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/771265\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Smashed with a hammer&#8217;: Royal expert reveals how Prince Harry put King Charles in &#8216;difficult position&#8217; as UK visit looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A royal expert has revealed how Prince Harry &#8220;smashed&#8221; the Royal Family&#8217;s circle of trust, putting King Charles in a &#8220;difficult position&#8221; over his upcoming return to the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Sources have revealed Charles felt &#8220;forced&#8221; into meeting Harry the last time they spent time together, at Clarence House in September last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Duke of Sussex&#8217;s willingness to open up in interviews and in his memoir Spare has led to the <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/lifestyle\/celebrity-life\/raging-three-royals-that-do-not-want-prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-to-return-to-uk\/news-story\/3dc5a000828009a0af6c90f0abbc7e5b\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"3dc5a000828009a0af6c90f0abbc7e5b\" data-tgev-label=\"lifestyle\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">monarch feeing wary about his son&#8217;s impending visit.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be visiting the UK with their children Prince Archie, seven, and Princess Lilibet, five, between July 6 and July 10 in a rare return trip as a family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(Charles is) not a bad man. He&#8217;s not an uncaring man. He loves his son, but his son has put him in a very, very difficult position,&#8221; Rebecca English, royal editor at the Daily Mail, told the publication&#8217;s Palace Confidential <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ruRzsZQjVmk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has betrayed a lot of family intimacies. I don&#8217;t want to use the word &#8216;secrets&#8217;, but it&#8217;s certainly intimacies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a very small circle of people (the Royal Family) can trust and once you&#8217;re in that circle of trust you remain in (it) and Harry has smashed that with a hammer,&#8221; Ms English added.<\/p>\n<p>In Harry&#8217;s infamous memoir, Spare, he landed several attacks on his family.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"poster-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0d6c7e0ae9d50d499e9a001315185cb5.jpeg\" data-sctrack=\"op-poster-img\" alt=\"Harry considers not bringing Meghan and the kids to the UK for absurd reason\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He alleged Charles did not hug him when Princess Diana died and branded Queen Camilla a &#8220;villain&#8221;, &#8220;dangerous&#8221; and a &#8220;wicked stepmother&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the book, he claimed there was a rift between Meghan Markle and Princess Catherine, and said his brother Prince William had once knocked him to the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Harry, Meghan and their two children will be embarking on the UK trip to attend the One Year To Go Invictus events in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>They have also reportedly been invited to stay at\u00a0<a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/lifestyle\/celebrity-life\/increasingly-frustrated-prince-harry-reluctantly-accepts-offer-to-stay-at-buckingham-palace-with-meghan-markle-and-children-after-previously-declining-due-to-security-concerns\/news-story\/df277a4b50bf8a258732b360fd64a3f1\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"df277a4b50bf8a258732b360fd64a3f1\" data-tgev-label=\"lifestyle\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buckingham Palace by Charles.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The trip will be the first time they have returned to the UK as a family in almost four years, however, there are three members of the royal family who are not happy with the visit.<\/p>\n<p>Camilla, William and Catherine have reportedly been left &#8220;raging&#8221; over Harry and Meghan&#8217;s upcoming transatlantic trip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Camilla, William and Catherine will show dignity and grace if a meeting is arranged I&#8217;m sure &#8211; as they always do &#8211; but deep down they must be raging,&#8221; <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2221506\/harry-meghan-will-be-smug\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Express<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A royal expert has revealed how Prince Harry &#8220;smashed&#8221; the Royal Family&#8217;s circle of trust, putting King Charles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,2546,33664,5513,5514,201005,5429],"class_list":["post-771265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-king-charles","tag-meghan-markle","tag-prince-harry","tag-royal-family","tag-royal-visit","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}