Royals set up a 'war room' amid fears over Prince Harry's 'Spare' memoir - Page Six

The royal family’s elder advisers acceptable up a de-facto “war room” to woody with immoderate imaginable fallout from Prince Harry’s bombshell memoir, Page Six tin reveal.

Top unit adjacent discussed the concern astatine Sandringham Estate, wherever the royal household gathered to observe their first Christmas without Queen Elizabeth, we’re told.

Insiders accidental a program was drawn up to woody with the explosive revelations expected not conscionable from Harry’s book, but besides successful his beryllium down with Anderson Cooper connected CBS “60 Minutes” Sunday, which volition beryllium swiftly followed by an interview connected ITV, “Good Morning America” and “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert.

The royals and their unit racked their brains to travel up with each imaginable communicative that Harry would see successful his tome — and were said to beryllium good alert helium would recount his combat with William, wherever helium claims that his member knocked him into a canine vessel during a combat implicit Meghan Markle.

The Royal Family’s elder advisers acceptable up a defacto “war room” up of the merchandise of Prince Harry’s book, “Spare.”Samir Hussein/WireImage

Prince Harry — seen with woman Meghan Markle successful a inactive from their Netflix amusement — made a bid of bombshell claims successful his caller bookNetflix

“He broke my necklace by grabbing maine by the collar of my garment … I fell connected the canine bowl, it broke nether my backmost and the pieces scratched me,” Harry wrote.

One highly placed insider told us: “There were undoubtedly fears astir what Harry was going to write, and successful peculiar they were disquieted astir the highly idiosyncratic moments of their lives being retold.

“The King wanted to determination up with the accepted ‘stiff precocious lip’ cognition and travel successful the Queen’s celebrated footsteps of ‘never complain, ne'er explain’, but the Prince of Wales argued that possibly the household should, successful fact, spell connected the violative and merchandise a statement, overmuch successful the aforesaid mode helium said ‘We are precise overmuch not a racist family’, but helium was overruled by his father.”

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The UK Daily Telegraph besides confirmed the palace was connected a “war footing” up of the book’s release, adding that aft speechmaking excerpts of the book, their worst fears were not realized.

Despite everything, The Sunday Times of London reported that William is acutely alert the royal household has to enactment quiet. As 1 adjacent person of some brothers told the outlet, “He (William) won’t retaliate, helium ne'er would, due to the fact that he’s dignified and unbelievably loyal. William is simply a sitting duck due to the fact that Harry knows helium isn’t going to retaliate. How galore shots tin you instrumentality astatine a sitting duck?

“It’s cruel, cowardly and truthful bittersweet for William to support taking the punches. He’s keeping quiescent for the bully of his household and the country.”

Harry’s publication “Spare,” volition beryllium published Tuesday astir the world, but embarrassingly excerpts leaked to Page Six this week earlier it mistakenly went connected merchantability aboriginal successful Spain earlier being pulled disconnected the bookshelves.

Prince Harry spills the beans connected his puerility — and his feud with his member Prince William successful his caller memoir, “Spare,” retired Tuesday

King Charles and Prince William astatine Sandringham connected Christmas Day, their archetypal without Queen Elizabeth. Samir Hussein/WireImage

Among his daze claims, the Duke of Sussex, 38, talks of his rift with William, 40, drags his sister-in-law Princess Kate and reveals the last words helium said to his grandma shortly aft she died successful September. He besides tells however helium and William urged their begetter not to wed Camilla Parker Bowles.

He besides elaborate the tense Sandringham acme successful aboriginal 2020 wherever Harry tried to get his relatives to hold to a “half-in-half out” model, wherever helium and Markle would beryllium allowed to unrecorded retired of the state and beryllium part-time royals. Her Majesty disagreed, prompting them to discontinue their elder royal roles and determination to California.

As Page Six revealed Saturday, William and Kate were near “reeling” by the book, but contempt this, Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace officials volition not remark connected the book, conscionable similar they refused to remark astir the Sussexes’ Netflix amusement “Harry & Meghan.”

Prince Harry’s interrogation with Anderson Cooper for CBS “60 Minutes” volition aerial Sunday night.CBS

Meanwhile, we’re told that the Prince and Princess of Wales, who made a travel to Boston successful December, person turned down a agelong database of prestigious interviews some successful the United States and Britain to contiguous their broadside with each proceeds going to royal charities.

King Charles — who gave a disastrous 1993 interrogation to Jonathan Dimbleby — successful which helium admitted to cheating connected Princess Diana with his now-wife, Camilla Parker Bowles, is believed to person told each the household that thing bully tin travel from speaking out.

In a new trailer for Harry’s ITV interrogation with Tom Bradby, released Saturday, helium revealed the “guilt” helium felt implicit not being capable to outcry successful beforehand of weeping mourners astatine Kensington Palace aft his mother’s death.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle emotionally recounted their exit from the royal household successful their Netflix show, “Harry & Meghan”Netflix

Prince Harry said that it was not until helium watched his mother’s coffin being lowered into the crushed connected the Althorp Estate that helium yet shed tears.

He besides said that helium thinks that William felt guilt arsenic good astir not crying alongside the crowds, saying: “Everyone knows wherever they were and what they were doing the nighttime my parent died.

“I cried once, astatine the burial, and you cognize I spell into item astir however unusual it was and how, actually, determination was immoderate guilt that I felt, and I deliberation William felt arsenic well, by walking astir the extracurricular of Kensington Palace.

The royal household turned up en masse for Princess Kate’s carol work successful December – each but Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Getty Images

“There were 50,000 bouquets of flowers to our mother, and determination we were shaking people’s hands, smiling. I’ve seen the videos, right, I looked backmost implicit it all. And the bedewed hands that we were shaking, we couldn’t recognize wherefore their hands were wet, but it was each the tears that they were wiping away.”

He adds: “Everyone thought, and felt like, they knew our mum, and the 2 closest radical to her, the 2 astir loved radical by her, were incapable to amusement immoderate emotion successful that moment.”

We person reached retired to Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace for comment.