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Jamie Roberts

Prince Harry dubs Camilla 'dangerous' over need to rehabilitate image

Prince Harry has called the Queen Consort Camilla "dangerous" for how she went about trying to improve her own image prior to marrying King Charles III.

Speaking to Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes, the Duke of Sussex claimed Camilla's need to rehabilitate her image made her dangerous due to the way she was forming relationships within the press.

He told the journalist: "There was open willingness on both sides to trade of information. And with a family built on hierarchy, and with her, on the way to being Queen consort, there was gonna be people or bodies left in the street because of that."

He then admitted he feels as though he was one of the bodies, believing that both Camilla and his father had, at times, used him to better their own coverage.

Prince Harry called Camilla 'dangerous' (Getty Images)
Prince Harry said he didn't want his dad to re-marry (Getty Images)

"If you are led to believe, as a member of the family, that being on the front page, having positive headlines, positive stories written about you, is going to improve your reputation or increase the chances of you being accepted as monarch by the British public, then that's what you're gonna do," he added.

Harry also discussed how he didn't feel it was necessary for his dad to marry Camilla and went as far as revealing he and his brother Prince William had asked him not to tie the knot.

Prince Harry opened up on Camilla's relationships with the press (CBS NEWS)

He admitted he thought his dad doing so would "cause more harm than good" and simply being in a relationship with her should have been enough.

He confessed he did want to see the now-King and Queen consort happy, but he thought that being public with their relationship would suffice.

Harry's interview with Anderson was shown hours after the first British broadcast of the Duke of Sussex's UK chat with ITV News presenter Tom Bradby.

Harry: The Interview premiered on ITV on Sunday evening, with Harry, 38, going into unprecedented depth and detail on life in and out of the royal family.

Prince Harry was speaking to Anderson Cooper (CBS NEWS)

The dad-of-two opened up about how he had seen his late mother Princess Diana in his dreams and also took aim at his brother and sister-in-law, while recalling how he faced a "horrible reaction" from his family when the Queen died last year.

King Charles' youngest son has been on something of a promotional tour over recent weeks, ahead of his debut memoir Spare hitting shop shelves on Tuesday.

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