Harry accuses Camilla of leaking private talks with William in ‘long game’ campaign to become Queen

Harry accused his stepmother, who married his father in 2005, of leaking stories to the press. (Getty)

Prince Harry has accused the Queen Consort of leaking private conversations to the press as she ‘played the long game’ to marry his father.

In his interview on Sunday with ITV about his memoir Spare, Harry denied he was “scathing” towards his stepmother, but accused her of colluding with newspapers, leaking details of conversations with his brother.

Charles married Camilla in a civil ceremony at Windsor Guildhall in April 2005.

Quoting an excerpt from the book, which is due to be published on Tuesday but has been extensively leaked, he said he and his brothers told his father: “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.

“Shortly after our private summits with her, she began to play the long game. A campaign aimed [at] marriage, and eventually the Crown, with Pa’s blessing we presumed.

Harry said stories appeared that could only have come from one place. (Getty)

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“Stories began to appear everywhere in all the papers about her private conversation with Willie, stories that contained pinpoint accurate details, none of which had come from Willie, of course.

“They could only have been leaked by the other one other person present.”

Later in the interview, Harry also accuses Charles and Camilla’s office of leaking negative stories to the press following William and Kate’s wedding.

He said: “Just as much as William and Kate suffered from my father and stepmother, or their office… because the moment William married Kate they went through a large portion of the same things that Meg and I went through.

“But then I always believed that – well I’m the spare, I’m no competition to my father, no competition to my brother, I think this will be absolutely fine. How wrong I was. The very thing that William and Kate had experienced from pa and Camilla happened to us, and happened from William and Kate’s office as well.”

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Harry denied being ‘scathing’ towards Camilla. (Getty)

According to ITV, Buckingham Palace has previously said a royal aide to Camilla was found to be responsible and let go.

Despite his comments, Harry denied saying anything “scathing” towards anything in his family – including Camilla.

He told broadcaster Tom Bradby: “There’s no part of any of the things that I’ve said are scathing towards any member of my family, especially not my stepmother.”

Elsewhere in the interview, he said he loved his father and brother, adding: “Nothing of what I’ve done in this book or otherwise has ever been any intention to harm them or hurt them.”

But he accused his family of “getting into bed with the devil” – the press – to rehabilitate their image, saying they had been “complicit” in conflict he said was created by the British press.

“The saddest part of that is certain members of my family and the people that work for them are complicit in that conflict,” he said.

Neither Buckingham Palace nor Kensington Palace have commented on the contents of Harry’s book or interviews he has given to the media.