{"id":564942,"date":"2026-08-10T18:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/564942\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T18:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:50:13","slug":"royal-family-insider-dismisses-prince-harrys-brutal-king-charles-claim-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/564942\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family insider dismisses Prince Harry\u2019s brutal King Charles claim | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince Harry<\/a> made a number of claims about his father, King Charles, in his memoir Spare. But, now, a royal insider has disputed some of them leaving fans of the monarchy puzzled about the truth. Prince Edward<\/a>‘s ex-girlfriend, Ruthie Henshall, dated Queen Elizabeth<\/a>‘s youngest child for around five years.<\/p>\n

In her new book, The Showgirl And The Prince, she has revealed what King Charles<\/a>\u2019 parenting style is really like. Ruthie spent much time at Balmoral with senior members of the Royal Family<\/a> and saw King Charles with his sons first hand, reports the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n

She says: \u201cI watched Charles<\/a> playing rough and tumble with William and Harry (then aged ten and eight) in the Balmoral corridors.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe clearly loved those boys, and they were squealing with joy as daddy chased them.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, in Harry<\/a>\u2019s memoir, Spare, he paints a much different picture. He writes: \u201cPa didn’t hug me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The prince adds: \u201cNot that Pa hadn’t always been a bit checked out.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’d always given an air of being not quite ready for parenthood – the responsibilities, the patience, the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven he, though a proud man, would’ve admitted as much. But single parenthood? Pa was never made for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two were married within two years of knowing each other, with Prince William<\/a> allegedly raising concerns about the speed of their relationship. In 2020, they stepped down from their royal duties.<\/p>\n

Harry\u2019s relationship with his family was further damaged with the release of his book which contains allegations about some members of the Royal Family.<\/p>\n

Prince Harry now lives in the US with his wife, Meghan Markle and their two children, Princess Lilibet and Prince Archie.<\/p>\n

In July, all four of them visited the UK on a five day trip to mark the one-year countdown to the Invictus Games.<\/p>\n

While they were here, they were all hosted by King Charles<\/a> and Queen Camilla for a private meeting. Prince Harry did not appear to meet with Prince William.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry made a number of claims about his father, King Charles, in his memoir Spare. But, now,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,11018,11061,111,139,69,3578,3164,184375,253591],"class_list":["post-564942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-king-charles","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prince-harry","tag-royal-family","tag-royal-family-dynamics","tag-ruthie-henshall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}