By Katherine Tinsley
10:01am PDT, Aug 21, 2025
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Prince Harry wrote about
King Charles and
Queen Camilla's wedding in his memoir,
Spare, but former royal butler
Grant Harrold's recent retelling of the day paints a much different picture, calling into question whether or not the retired royal was honest about his experience.
Keep reading to see how the two men differed…
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Grant Harrold discusses the 2005 royal wedding in his new book, The Royal Butler. He describes Prince Harry and Prince William as supportive of their father, King Charles II, and his bride, Queen Camilla. "We all went outside to wave them off and laughed as we saw William and Harry had decorated their car with 'Just Married,'" Harrold claims. "As they drove off through the arches to cheers, the boys raced after the car."
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In Spare, Prince Harry claimed he begged King Charles not to marry Queen Camilla, who was his father's mistress during his marriage to Princess Diana. "Despite Willy and me urging him not to, Pa was going ahead. We pumped his hand, wished him well. No hard feelings," he wrote of the sendoff with his brother, Prince William, adding that they "recognized" that their father was "finally going to be with the woman he loved, the woman he'd always loved."
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While Grant Harrold's confession poked holes in Prince Harry's story, he insisted that he isn't trying to bring drama into the royal family's lives. "I'm not trying to do a Paul Burrell," Harrold claimed, referencing Princess Diana's former butler, who often gives interviews about the royals.
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During a 2023 court appearance, Prince Harry slammed Paul Burrell and "how indiscreet [he] had proven to be with the way he had sold our mother's possessions and how he had given numerous interviews about her." Harry once called Burrell "attention-seeking and self-interested" in a voice message to Prince William, according to the
New York Post.
