King Charles risks infuriating Prince Harry by honouring man his son slammed in bombshell book
The Duke of Sussex criticised 'The Bee' in his autobiography
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King Charles has risked infuriating Prince Harry by granting a top honour to a man his son appeared to criticise in his autobiography Spare.
The Duke of Sussex is thought to have been referring to Sir Edward Young when he compared one of the senior staff members within the Royal Family to a bee.
The King has appointed Sir Edward Young a Permanent Lord in Waiting.
Sir Edward was one of Queen Elizabeth II's most trusted aides.
The King has appointed Sir Edward Young a Permanent Lord in Waiting.
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A source told the Mail: "His Majesty has great respect for Lord Young and is grateful for all the work he did for his mother, often under great pressure.
"This new honour is a reflection of that."
Prince Harry criticised 'The Bee' in his autobiography Spare.
Harry wrote: "I'd spent my life dealing with courtiers, scores of them.
"But now I dealt mostly with just three, all middle-aged white men who'd managed to consolidate power through a series of bold Machiavellian manoeuvres.
"They had normal names... but they sort more easily into zoological categories. The Bee, The Fly and the Wasp.
"The Bee was oval-faced and fuzzy and tended to glide around with great equanimity and poise as if he was a boon to all living things."
The Fly was described as: "[having] spent much of his career adjacent to and, indeed drawn to, s***.
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Prince Harry's autobiography Spare was released in January 2023.
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"The offal of government and media and wormy entrails, he loved it, grew fat on it, rubbed his hands in glee over it."
Prince Harry's autobiography titled Spare was released in January 2023.
The bombshell book contained multiple attacks on the senior members of the Royal Family including Camilla, Kate and his brother Prince William.