Prince Harry was “so wrong” to say that King Charles was never made for single parenthood, a royal expert has claimed.

In his controversial memoir Spare, which was released in January last year, the Duke of Sussex, 39, sent shock waves across the nation when he criticised King Charles over intimacy and communication issues growing up.

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Prince Harry criticised King Charles over intimacy and communication issues growing up in his memoir, SpareCredit: Getty

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Royal reporter Charles Rae claimed King Charles was ‘as loving’ to his sons as the late Princess DianaCredit: PA:Press Association
Speaking of his father following the tragic passing of the late Princess Diana, Harry penned: “He’d always given an air of not being quite ready for parenthood: the responsibilities, the patience, the time.

“Even he, though a proud man, would have admitted as much.

“But single-parenthood? Pa was never made for that. To be fair, he tried.”

However, speaking to royal editor Matt Wilkinson for The Sun’s show Royal Exclusive, royal reporter Charles Rae says that Harry was “so wrong” to paint such a picture of his father.

“This is why one of the things Harry said in his book Spare about his father was so so wrong,” he claims.

“I watched the then Prince with his children and he was as loving to those boys as was Diana.

“Diana was much more extrovert.”

I watched the then Prince with his children and he was as loving to those boys as was Diana

Charles RaeRoyal reporter

He then goes on to recall one particular occasion when a young Prince Harry and Prince William had arrived on the Royal Britannia.

“Diana and Charles had just finished a job…Diana walks up the gangplank plank, Charles is very polite, he stands there and says ‘hello’ to the captain, first officer and cook.

“Diana ignores them all and runs practically down the gangplank with her arms wide open and the boys rushed up to her – and that’s the picture that made the newspapers all over the world.”
Diana would have fixed William & Harry’s issues and would have loved Meghan
He adds: “Poor old Charles is left looking like a lemon as he was in India when he didn’t take her to the Taj Mahal and left her sitting alone there while he was addressing a business meeting 500 miles away.

“He just didn’t get those sort of things right.”

Charles, who got to meet Prince Harry and William often when he was working, goes on to say how “never in a month of Sundays” could he have predicted the pair would fall out – adding that the boys themselves were always “very pleasant.”

“I was there the day William passed his driving test, which was great great fun,” he says.

“And so we got to see them on special occasions and they were all reasonably friendly and would always say ‘hello.'”

Recalling when they were both in Canada, shortly after Diana passed away, he continues: “It was like The Beatles had arrived.

“The boys were walking up to an event and the screams, it was like The Beatles – it was just pop star stuff.

“I was behind them and Harry kept saying to William, ‘raise your hand again, raise your hand again and see what happens’…and of course all these girls where trying to rush forward.

“And they were really really close – and this is what makes it so sad that they’re so far apart.

“When William becomes King I always believed Harry would be one of his top advisers – that’s right out the window now.”

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The royal reporter recalled on occasion where Prince Charles was left ‘looking like a lemon’Credit: Getty Images – Getty

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Charles Rae claims the late Princess Diana was ‘much more extrovert’ than King CharlesCredit: PA:Press Association

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Prince William (R) smiles as he chats with his father Prince Charles (C) and his brother Prince Harry