Charles’ frank admission after Harry’s birth floored Diana and her family

When Prince Harry was born, his late mother Princess Diana claimed that King Charles was sorely ‘disappointed’ by his younger son’s arrival for one particular reason

Prince Harry followed in the footsteps of his late mother when releasing his tell-all memoir Spare, as Princess Diana once exposed her own truths in explosive tape recordings.

Diana wasn’t afraid of expressing herself, and in a controversial move, she secretly collaborated with a royal author on a biography about her life – during which she claimed that King Charles, then Prince of Wales, was sorely “disappointed” upon Harry’s birth, for one particular reason.

Diana was not able to meet up in person with the royal author Andrew Morton, so instead she collaborated with him using go-between James Colthurst – a mutual friend of the journalist and princess. Colthurst took Morton’s questions directly to Diana and recorded her answers on hours’ worth of recordings.