Prince Harry has been slammed by the agent of the late TV presenter Caroline Flack for opening up about their romance in his new autobiography Spare. In a section of the Duke of Sussex's explosive memoirs, which leaked after the book accidentally went on sale five days early in Spain, Harry tells of his relationship with the Love Island host.
Harry details how the pair met, their parting words and his upset at the tragic news that Caroline had died after taking her own life in February 2020 at the age of 40. Harry describes the former X Factor presenter, who hosted Love Island from 2015 to 2019, as "cool and sweet."
However, her former agent Alex Mullen has branded the Duke spilling these details as "gross" and "grotesque" and has called for him to be "stripped of all titles immediately." Alex, the creative director of APM Media Group, took to social media to voice his "disgust."
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"It’s absolutely gross for Prince Harry to reveal such private details about Caroline Flack," he wrote in a post shared on his Instagram page. "The way in which the press spoke about her at that time and the reason they split are both very sad and it’s disgusting he’s brought up old long forgotten slurs she had to suffer in full view of the public around the world.
"Of course Caroline reacted to them with humour and grace but privately she was deeply hurt; just the first of many injustices she didn’t deserve," he typed.
"Harry’s decision to remind all of the terrible things said about her to help sell his appalling book is grotesque. Moreover, and perhaps worst of all, he writes as if he has any idea why Carrie took her own life, parroting media reports as if they’re reality. Blaming the press because that’s what he read about it. He knows nothing.
He added: "Perhaps he should be considering how he and Meghan Markle might have caused Queen Elizabeth II pain just as she lost her husband of 70 years and while she was on the path to her final goodbye. The Royal Family need to strip him of all titles immediately."
In an excerpt of Spare, published by US Weekly, Harry says he was introduced to Caroline months after breaking up with his former long-term girlfriend Chelsy Davy. “She didn’t have a big ego,” Harry, 38, said about Caroline.
He shared: "Very soon after they papped me and Flack, those photos set off a frenzy. Within hours a mob was camped outside Flack’s parents’ house, and all her friends’ houses, and her grandparents’ house.
“She was described in one paper as my ‘bit of rough’, because she once worked in a factory or something,” he continued. “Jesus, I thought, are we really such a country of insufferable snobs?” The Duke says they both decided the relationship wasn't worth the "grief" and their parting words to each other were "goodbye and good luck."
Later in his book, Harry speaks about first hearing the 'horrible truth' that Caroline had died after taking her own life and feeling 'so awful' for her family. On learning about her death he wrote: “She couldn’t stand it anymore, apparently. The relentless abuse at the hands of the press, year after year, had finally broken her.”
"She’d been so light and funny that night we met. The definition of carefree,” he said. Caroline spoke about their romance in her memoir Storm in a C Cup, published in 2014. She wrote: "I was no longer Caroline Flack, TV presenter, I was Caroline Flack, Prince Harry’s bit of rough. Once the story got out, that was it. We had to stop seeing each other."
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