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Smiling King Charles breaks cover and ignores Harry's attacks to go to church

A smiling King Charles has broken cover as he ignored Prince Harry's attacks to go to church.

The King was seen for the first time since revelations emerged in his son's book 'Spare' which has made a series of controversial allegations about the Royal Family.

He attended a Sunday Service at St Lawrence's Church in Norfolk, this morning after the latest allegations in Prince Harry's book emerged.

The King smiled and waved as he spoke to wellwishers outside church and did not mention Harry's memoir.

The explosive book has seen the Duke of Sussex make a series of allegations - from accusing Prince William of assault to asking Charles not to marry Camilla.

A smiling King Charles has broken cover as he ignored Prince Harry's attacks to go to church (James Whatling)

Prince Harry has also claimed in his memoirs King Charles was jealous of both his wife, Meghan, and his sister-in-law, the Princess of Wales, in his memoir.

He reportedly said the reason his father supposedly said he did not “have money to spare” to financially support him and his wife Meghan was because his father feared the “novel and resplendent” actress would steal his limelight.

Before his engagement to Meghan, his father had raised the subject of the actress’s livelihood and asked if she planned to continue working after their marriage.

King Charles III speaks to well wishers as he arrives to attend a morning church service (PA)

Other leaked extracts from the book have seen Prince Harry speak candidly about losing his virginity to an older woman in a field behind a busy pub.

Harry described the incident as a "humiliating episode with an older woman who liked macho horses and who treated me like a young stallion."

He added: "I mounted her quickly, after which she spanked my ass and sent me away. One of my many mistakes was letting it happen in a field, just behind a very busy pub. No doubt someone had seen us."

King smiled in the face of the flack which Harry has thrown at the Royal Family (PA)
King Charles tried to put brave face on his public appearance (PA)

The identity of Harry's mature lover has been a mystery for decades, but he claimed she was "a beautiful older woman in the countryside".

Some believed that Liz Hurley may have been the one, but the Austin Powers star laughed off the rumours in December.

She told The Times : "Not me. Not guilty. Ha, adding: "No. Not me. Absolutely not."

Prince Harry has also laid bare details of the so-called Tiara-gate which saw Harry clash with the Queen's dresser over a headpiece for Meghan Markle.

Prince Harry has denied long-held claims that he told the Queen's dresser "what Meghan wants, Meghan gets" in an infamous falling out over a wedding tiara.

Charles joked with those who had turned out to see him (PA)

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were at Buckingham Palace to view a number of headpiece options to wear ahead of their 2018 nuptials.

Meghan picked out one with emeralds and another with aquamarines, which caused the late Queen to tell her: "Tiaras suit you."

But it was later claimed that she was told she could not wear the tiara, with Harry allegedly responding: “What Meghan wants, Meghan gets”.

Prince Harry's book has shocked the Royal Family (PA)

The Duke has referenced the unsavoury incident in Spare, saying the Queen’s royal dresser, Angela Kelly, told him that taking the tiara for an appointment with Meghan's hairdresser “couldn't be done”.

According to Page Six, he wrote: “She fixed me with a look that made me shiver. I could read in her face a clear warning. This isn't over."

Despite a series of leaks of the memoir, several television interviews with Prince Harry to promote the book will air over the next few days.

A prerecorded interview with ITV is scheduled to air tonight at 9pm while CBS show "60 Minutes" is set to run a conversation with the prince later, and he is appearing on "Good Morning America" and "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."

In extracts released in advance, Harry tells ITV journalist Tom Bradby that he cried only once after his mother, Prince Diana, died in 1997 - at her burial. He said he feels guilt about not showing emotion when he and his brother Prince William greeted crowds of mourners outside Kensington Palace, Diana's London home.

In the book, "Spare," Harry blames his family's stiff-upper-lip ethos, saying he had "learned too well - the family maxim that crying is not an option."

"There were 50,000 bouquets of flowers to our mother and there we were shaking people's hands, smiling," Harry told ITV. "I've seen the videos, right, I looked back over it all. And the wet hands that we were shaking, we couldn't understand why their hands were wet, but it was all the tears that they were wiping away.

"Everyone thought and felt like they knew our mum, and the two closest people to her, the two most loved people by her, were unable to show any emotion in that moment."

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