Prince Harry blasted for attacks on Camilla as family breaks silence to lambast Duke's claims
Prince Harry's attacks on Camilla were rejected by Tom Parker Bowles
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Prince Harry has been criticised for his attacks on Camila, with the Queen Consort's family breaking their silence over the verbal onslaught from the Duke.
Camilla's son, Tom Parker Bowles, took aim at Harry for branding Her Majesty a "villain" who had "played the long game" to become Queen.
Harry wrote in his memoir, Spare that he had "complex feelings about gaining a step-parent who I thought had recently sacrificed me on her personal PR altar."
He also called her "dangerous" and feared before her marriage to Charles that she would be a "wicked stepmother".
Camilla was accused by Harry of doing whatever necessary to become Queen
PABut sticking up for Camilla, Parker Bowles said that his mother had never acted out of malice or plotted for the future.
"I don't care what anyone says — this wasn't any sort of end game," he told The News Agents Podcast.
"She married the person she loved and this is what happened."
And praising his mother for never moaning about royal life, he added: "I think anyone would be anxious on an occasion of this sort of importance in terms of the historical.
Tom Parker Bowles said that his mother 'never complains'
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"And yes, I think I'd be terrified if I had to sort of walk out wearing ancient robes.
"She's 75, but you know, it's tough to do it. But she's never complained. You just do it. Get on with it."
His admiration for Camilla's "never complain" attitude comes after months of public criticism from Harry about his time in the Royal Family.
But earlier this week a close friend of the Queen Consort admitted that the Duke of Sussex's media attacks had left her "hurt.
The Duke of Sussex made a number of attacks on Camilla in his memoir
PAThe Marchioness of Lansdowne, 68, a deputy lieutenant of Wiltshire, said: “Of course it bothers her, of course it hurts.
"But she doesn’t let it get to her.
"Her philosophy is always, ‘Don’t make a thing of it and it will settle down - least said, soonest mended'."
Meanwhile, an aide told the Sunday Times regarding Camilla's reaction to the book: “It was not stamping of feet or gnashing of teeth, it was much more of an eye-roll response.”