The relationship between King Charles III and his son,
Prince William, is royally bad right now, according to
Rob Shuter.
In the Thursday, February 5, edition of Shuter’s
Naughty But Nice Substack, a source claimed.
It’s very bad at the moment,” an insider alleged to
Shuter. “There’s real anger on both sides.”
Another source pointed out that the Prince of Wales, 43,
skipped a recent milestone event for the sovereign, 77.
Charles held the premiere for his upcoming Amazon
Prime documentary, Finding Harmony: A King’s Vision,
at Windsor Castle on January 28, and neither William
nor his wife, Princess Kate, was in attendance.
The source noted the father of three’s absence “wasn’t a
scheduling issue,” rather “a statement.”
According to a third source, William and Charles “clash
because they’re too similar,” as they “both believe
they’re right” and “neither backs down easily.”
Another insider added that “William will be king,”
which “changes the power dynamic completely.”
Meghan Markle, stepped back as senior members
of the royal family in 2020. However, Charles and the
Duke of Sussex, 41, eventually ended their 19-month
estrangement in September.
A separate source told Shuter that dealing with William
is more challenging.
“Harry is emotional, reactive, and predictable,” the
source explained. “William is controlled, strategic —
and stubborn. That’s much harder.”
King Charles’ latest decision
about Andrew raises eyebrows
King Cahrles might have taken all possible steps to
teach Andrew a lesson after his connections to the
Jeffrey Epstein, however, many Britons still suspect the
royal family still supports him.
The former prince has finally vocated his Royal Lodge
for a new far more humble abode, but there are
questions about how his lifestyle will be funded.
Even after leaving his lavish mansion on Monday night
under the cover of darkness, but the shadow of his past
actions put him to the spotlight.
For the time being, he is holed up at Wood Farm. He will
eventually move into Marsh Farm on the Sandringham
estate.
Andrew is expected to be wholly dependent on the
King, for both his home and his money following his
spectacular fall from grace.
Graham Smith from the campaign group Republic
claimed: ” It’s a bit of both, I think we give them so
much money that their whole lifestyle, the whole fact
that they are as wealthy as they are is due to huge
public subsidies over generations.”
“Arguably, if they weren’t exempt from inheritance tax,
they wouldn’t have been able to keep Balmoral and
Sandringham,” Graham told the Mirror.
the Duchies, but the upkeep, the travel to and from, the
security – a lot of it is a bit murky – but we know there
is certainly a lot of public money being spent in that. It
isn’t like he bought some other house in some other
part of the country.”
King Charles has revealed he “wasn’t going to be
diverted” from his environmental campaigning despite
criticism in the past in a new documentary showcasing
his philosophy of “Harmony”.
In the Amazon Prime Video film, his first project with a
streaming platform, Charles recalls past attacks on his
outspokenness on the environment, saying: “I just felt
this was the approach that I was going to stick to. A
course I set and I wasn’t going to be diverted from.”
“On the fight to save the planet: it’s rapidly going
backwards. I’ve said that for the last 40 years but
anyway, there we are. So, that’s why I get a bit, anyway
… I can only do what I can do, which is not very much,”
he says in the film, which is available on Amazon Prime
from 6 February.
He concludes: “Maybe, by the time I shuffle off this
mortal coil, there might be a little more awareness … of
the need to bring things back together again.”
The global premiere of the film in the Waterloo
Chamber at Windsor Castle on Wednesday evening is
thought to be the first time a film will have premiered at
a royal residence.
It captures five decades of Charles’s environmental
missionary zeal, and while not capital P political, it is an
unprecedented project for a British sovereign, although
not for Charles as Prince of Wales. Summing up its
message, the king says in the film: “It all boils down to
the fact that we are nature ourselves. We are a part of it,
not apart from it.”
The film, narrated by actor Kate Winslet, reveals the
1986 documentary which disclosed that Charles talked
to plants, had “haunted him ever since”. He was “really
upset” by the ensuing criticism, Ian Skelly, co-author of
the king’s 2010 Harmony book, says.
When he first announced his plan for organic farming
at Home Farm, Highgrove, he says, “all this was
considered completely bonkers, to say the least”.
He laments: “When I first came 45 years ago … I mean, I
used to hear cuckoos, which you never hear a single
cuckoo …. And there used to be grasshoppers and, you
know, the place used to hum. And that wonderful
sound, you don’t get much of that, even though I’ve
done my utmost to, you know, make sure.”
The lavish production includes “Harmony”-inspired
projects from beekeeping at HMP Bristol to the
rainforests of Guyana, the deserts of Rajasthan, India,
and Kabul in Afghanistan. The concepts of
connectedness with nature, of “sacred geometry” and
“natural mathematics”, are explored.
Produced in partnership with The King’s Foundation,
the nature and sustainability charity based at Dumfries
House in Scotland and founded by Charles in 1990 as
Prince of Wales, the film presents an unchallenged view
of the philosophy. It will be available in 240 countries
and territories.
A spokesperson for the king said it was not a
“conventional royal documentary” but a “deeply
A cast of stars joined the king and queen at the film’s
Windsor Castle premiere on Wednesday evening.
Actors including Kate Winslet, Benedict Cumberbatch,
Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench and Stanley Tucci were
among 222 guests, as well as musicians Rod Stewart
and Jools Holland. The Duchess of Edinburgh and the
Duke and Duchess of Gloucester were also in the
audience.
