In excerpts published Friday in The Times of London, Bower wrote that Queen Camilla once told an associate that Meghan had “brainwashed” Prince Harry. The book also alleges that Prince William and Catherine “evidently saw Meghan as a threat rather than an ally” during the period before the Sussexes stepped back from royal duties and moved to the United States.
Harry and Meghan’s statement responded directly to those claims. “This is someone who has publicly stated, ‘the monarchy in fact depends on actually obliterating the Sussexes from our state of life,’ language that speaks for itself,” the statement said. They added that Bower “has made a career out of constructing ever more elaborate theories about people he does not know and has never met.”
The book, whose full title and publication date have not been disclosed, also includes criticism of the couple’s financial arrangements, their charitable work, and Harry’s Invictus Games foundation for wounded veterans. Bower is known for biographies critical of public figures; his 2022 book “Revenge: Meghan, Harry, And the War Between the Windsors” was a controversial bestseller in the United Kingdom.
Representatives for Bower and for Buckingham Palace did not immediately comment on the statement Saturday.
The public dispute continues a pattern of tension between the Sussexes and certain sections of the British media, as well as authors who have published critical accounts of the royal family’s internal dynamics. Harry has previously spoken about what he describes as a “feeding frenzy” by some tabloids during his and Meghan’s time as working royals.