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0:00So Camila is sitting on a secret legal
0:02document that was supposed to protect
0:04her family from Prince William. And the
0:06entire thing was built on a lie that
0:08fell apart because Princess Anne
0:10remembered a piece of paper her mother
0:12wrote 2 days before she died. That's the
0:14story. That's the whole thing. And
0:16honestly, the more you look at the
0:17timeline, the weirder it gets. Because
0:20for 2 years, a man paid by Camila's own
0:23office sat across from her and told her
0:25that the moment King Charles died,
0:28William would throw her family out of
0:30every house they'd ever been welcome in.
0:32He showed her notes. He quoted William's
0:34words back to her like he'd been in the
0:36room when they were said. He drew up 40
0:38pages of legal protections. And not one
0:41word of what he told her was true. Not
0:44one. Princess Anne figured it out, took
0:46it to her brother, and within a week,
0:48the whole thing collapsed. The man was
0:50fired in front of a tea trolley. The
0:52papers were destroyed, and Camila said
0:55five words to Anne that I genuinely
0:57don't think she's ever said to anybody
0:58in that family before. But before we get
1:00into all of that, if you're new here,
1:02we're Crown Watch, and we break down
1:04royal stories the way they actually
1:06happened, not the way the clickbait
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1:10happened. Subscribe if you want more of
1:12this. Okay, so let's address the
1:14elephant in the room first because the
1:16internet has completely lost its mind
1:18over this story. You've probably seen
1:20the videos this week claiming the king
1:22has separated from Camila. Separate
1:24household, separate diaries, Camila
1:26packing her trunks and retreating to
1:28Wiltshire. The king signing some cold
1:30order and walking out into the mist.
1:32None of that happened. Like 0% of that
1:35happened. On October 15th, Charles and
1:38Camila opened the Welsh Parliament
1:40together in Cardiff. This week, they've
1:43been hosting the Sultan of Oman at
1:45Windsor for a state visit that was
1:47announced back in September. And on
1:49Wednesday the 21st, which was the 60th
1:51anniversary of the Abberfan disaster,
1:53the King, the Queen, and Prince William
1:55went to Abberfan together. Charles and
1:57William laid wreaths in the memorial
1:59garden where Pent Glass Junior School
2:01used to stand. Camila placed a posie of
2:04flowers. They stood in silence for the
2:07116 children and 28 adults who died
2:09there in 1966.
2:11You don't do that with a wife you
2:13supposedly thrown out of your house. I
2:16understand why those videos get made. A
2:18royal marriage breaking up is the
2:20biggest story there is. It gets clicks.
2:23It gets views. It gets people screaming
2:25in the comments. But you cannot run a
2:27story about a separated king and queen
2:30in the same week. They're photographed
2:32laying flowers together at Abberfam and
2:34expect anybody paying attention to
2:36believe it. The truth is quieter and in
2:39a way it's much sadder. And it starts
2:42with a document. The first document is a
2:44memo six pages long, typed headed
2:47confidential with a title succession
2:49risk assessment. An outside adviser
2:52wrote it in the spring of 2024. A man
2:54Camila's private office had brought in
2:57to help with what he called long-term
2:58planning. I'm not going to name him, but
3:01the accounts describe him as smooth,
3:03well-connected, early 60s, a former
3:06estate manager who'd moved into advising
3:09wealthy families on property and
3:10inheritance. He came recommended by
3:13somebody in Camila's wider circle, and
3:15he made himself useful very quickly. The
3:17memo told Camila a story she'd been
3:19afraid of for 30 years. It's said that
3:22when the king's reign ended, whenever
3:24that might be, the new king would have
3:26complete control over every royal
3:28property, every grace and favor cottage,
3:31every staff post in the household. That
3:33part was true. That's how the system
3:35works. But then the memo went further.
3:37It said the adviser had it on good
3:40authority from conversations with people
3:42close to Kensington Palace. That William
3:44intended to use that power, that he'd
3:47been heard to say at a private meeting
3:49in 2023, that once his father was gone,
3:53Camila's family would be out within the
3:55month. The memo quoted the words in
3:58inverted commas. It gave a date and a
4:00place. It made it sound like William had
4:03sat at a table and said it out loud.
4:05Now, think about what that would do to a
4:07woman like Camila. She married Charles
4:09in April 2005 after more than 30 years
4:12of being the most criticized woman in
4:15Britain. She spent the '9s being booed
4:17in the street and called names on the
4:19front pages. In November 1995, Diana sat
4:22in front of a BBC camera and said there
4:24were three of them in her marriage, so
4:26it was a bit crowded. And for years
4:29afterwards, Camila couldn't go to a
4:32supermarket without somebody throwing
4:33that line in her face. She spent the
4:352000s winning people round, one charity
4:39visit at a time. In February 2022, the
4:42late queen said publicly that it was her
4:45sincere wish that Camila should be known
4:48as queen when the time came. And in May
4:502023, she was crowned in Westminster
4:52Abbey. But underneath all of it, the
4:55people who know her say there's always
4:56been a fear she's never quite shaken.
4:58That she's welcome because of one man.
5:01That if he goes, the welcome goes with
5:03him. She has a son, a daughter, five
5:06grandchildren. She has Ray Mill, the
5:08house in Wiltshire she bought with her
5:10own money in 1995. And she has, after 20
5:14years, a whole life inside a family that
5:16once couldn't bear the sight of her.
5:18Camila has spent a great deal of her
5:20public life on hard subjects. She's
5:22campaigned for years on domestic abuse.
5:25She's president of the Royal
5:27Osteoporosis Society because the disease
5:30killed her mother and her grandmother.
5:32She founded her own reading charity.
5:35She's not a woman who frightens easily
5:36about other people. It's only about her
5:39own place in that family that the old
5:40fear lives. And the adviser understood
5:43that from the very first meeting. He
5:45came down to Ray Mill one afternoon in
5:48the spring of 2024 and sat in her
5:50kitchen with a cup of tea and asked her
5:52very gently whether anybody had ever
5:55talked to her about what would happen
5:57afterwards. nobody had, not because
5:59anybody was hiding it, but because in
6:00that family, nobody talks about
6:03afterwards. It's the one subject they
6:05all avoid. And he was the first person
6:08in 20 years who'd sat down and asked her
6:10about it kindly, as if he were on her
6:12side. She was grateful. That's the cruel
6:15part. She was grateful to him. The
6:16adviser's memo landed exactly on that
6:19fear, and then it offered her a way out.
6:21The second document is a set of drafts.
6:24The advisor's solution was simple. He
6:26told Camila, "Get it in writing now
6:29while the king was on the throne in a
6:31form the next king couldn't undo." So,
6:33in the autumn of 2024, he brought in a
6:36small firm of private solicitors outside
6:38the household's usual lawyers, and over
6:40the next 18 months, they drew up a
6:43bundle of legal papers. The people
6:44who've seen them describe 40 odd pages
6:47in a green leather folder with tabs.
6:50Notice that detail. Outside the
6:52household's usual lawyers, the royal
6:54family has used the same small circle of
6:57long-established solicitors for
6:59generations, people who know exactly how
7:01the family's property works and who
7:03answer to the household. The adviser
7:05went around them. He told Camila that
7:07the household's own lawyers would report
7:09everything back to the king's office and
7:12that if she wanted her family properly
7:14protected, she needed people who worked
7:16for her alone. There were promises of
7:18lifetime residence in two cottages on
7:21the High Grove estate for members of
7:23Camila's family. There were guarantees
7:25that certain members of her staff would
7:27keep their posts and salaries for years
7:29after the king's reign ended. There were
7:31clauses binding the next sovereign to
7:33keep up particular charitable patchages.
7:36And the staff guarantees weren't for
7:38strangers. They were for people Camila
7:40loves. Her dresser who's been with her
7:42for more than 20 years. a driver who's
7:45taken her to every engagement since
7:46before her wedding. A secretary who
7:49stood by her in the worst of the 90s
7:51when it would have been much easier to
7:52walk away. Camila has always been
7:55fiercely loyal to the people who were
7:57loyal to her when nobody else was. The
7:59adviser knew that and he used it. He
8:02told her that a new king would bring in
8:04his own people and that hers would be
8:06out on the street. all of it written so
8:08that it would sit outside the king's own
8:10control in trusts where his successor
8:13couldn't touch it. And he had an example
8:15ready. Every time Camila hesitated, he'd
8:17point to the king's brother. In November
8:192025, the London Gazette published the
8:22papers taking away Andrew's titles. And
8:25in February this year, he moved out of
8:27Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park, where
8:30he'd lived for more than 20 years. Look
8:32what happens. As the adviser would say,
8:34one decision from the sovereign and a
8:36man who's lived in a house for decades
8:38is gone. Imagine what a new king might
8:41do to people he doesn't even consider
8:42family. It was a wicked comparison and
8:45he knew it. Andrew lost his home after a
8:47long scandal of his own making. Camila's
8:50family had done nothing wrong at all.
8:52But fear doesn't check comparisons. It
8:55only hears the word gone. He had a
8:58second example, too. Frogmore Cottage,
9:01the house the late queen gave Harry and
9:03Megan as a wedding present. In 2023,
9:06after the king came to the throne, the
9:08household asked the Sussex's to give it
9:10up. To the adviser, that was proof. If
9:13the king would do that to his own son,
9:15he said, imagine what his son would do
9:16to people who aren't family at all.
9:19Again, it left out everything that
9:20mattered. But Camila wasn't in a mood to
9:22look for what had been left out. Now, I
9:25want to explain one thing about H
9:26Highrove because it matters. High Grove
9:29belongs to the duche of Cornwall.
9:32Charles became king in 2022 and the
9:35duche passed to William as it always
9:37passes to the heir. The king uses High
9:39Grove and pays for the privilege, but
9:41William's duche owns it. So those papers
9:44weren't only trying to bind the next
9:46king. They were trying to tie up a piece
9:48of Williams own property without William
9:51knowing anything about it. And buried on
9:53page 31 in a schedule near the back,
9:56there was one more clause. one the
9:58adviser had never once mentioned to
10:00Camila in all their meetings that people
10:02around her say it gave him by name a
10:05retained consultancy for life an annual
10:08fee paid out of private royal funds
10:11guaranteed for as long as any of the
10:13other arrangements in the folder lasted
10:15binding on the next king too I'll come
10:18back to that clause it's the hinge of
10:20the whole story never read page 31 she
10:24read the summary the adviser gave her
10:26two pages long in plain English, saying
10:28that her family and her people would be
10:31safe. She trusted him. And by the late
10:33summer of this year, the folder was
10:35ready and it went into the king's papers
10:38to wait for a quiet weekend and his
10:40signature presented, the account says,
10:43as a little tidying up of the queen's
10:45personal affairs. Then there was a
10:47dinner, a small family supper at Windsor
10:50early in September. The king and queen,
10:52William Anne, nobody else. They've been
10:54talking about the autumn ahead, the
10:56Welsh Parliament, the state visit, the
10:58anniversary at Abberfan, the long tour
11:00to the Caribbean. Williams been carrying
11:02more of the load this year. And that
11:04always brings a certain tension into a
11:06room because when the air takes on more,
11:09everybody at the table remembers without
11:11anybody saying it what's coming one day.
11:14And somewhere over the main course,
11:17Camila said something she'd been
11:19carrying around for months. She was
11:21talking about her staff and her family
11:22in Highrove and she leaned forward a
11:25little and said that certain things
11:27needed to be properly secured now before
11:29William had the chance to undo them
11:31later. She said it quite lightly by
11:34every account. She didn't mean it as an
11:36attack. She was repeating almost word
11:38for word what the adviser had been
11:40telling her for 2 years. But think about
11:42how it sounded at that table. William
11:44went completely still. He didn't say a
11:47word and put her wine glass down on the
11:49table slowly so that the people there
11:51heard the foot of it touch the wood and
11:53the king stopped eating, looked across
11:55at his wife and asked her very quietly
11:58what she meant by secured. Camila
12:00laughed, the account says, and said she
12:03only meant continuity, looking after
12:05people who'd looked after her. And the
12:07conversation moved on the way
12:08conversations do with that family with
12:10everybody pretending that nothing had
12:12happened. But William was sitting there
12:14and I want you to think about what he
12:15heard. He was 14 when his parents'
12:18marriage ended in divorce in 1996. He
12:21watched his mother lose her title, her
12:24royal highness. As part of the
12:25settlement, he watched her lose her
12:27place piece by piece to arrangements
12:30agreed by other people in rooms she
12:32wasn't in. He was 15 when he walked
12:34behind her coffin in September 1997.
12:38And now almost 30 years later, he'd
12:40heard the woman who'd married his father
12:42talk about protecting her people from
12:44him, as if he were a danger to be got
12:46round while his father was still alive.
12:48He said nothing at that table. He's very
12:51good at saying nothing. In the car back
12:53to Windsor that night, the people close
12:55to them say Katherine asked him what was
12:57wrong because she could see it from the
13:00way he was holding the steering wheel.
13:01He told her what Camila had said. And
13:04Catherine, who has a gift for saying the
13:07one sentence that helps, told him not to
13:09go to his father angry. Whatever he did,
13:12she said if he went in as the next king
13:14demanding answers, his father would do
13:16what he's always done and defend his
13:17wife. She said go in as his son or don't
13:20go in at all. William took her advice.
13:23He didn't go to his father that night or
13:25the next day. As it turned out, he
13:27didn't need to because somebody else got
13:29there first. Anne saw his face and she
13:33knew exactly what it had cost him. Anne
13:35didn't wait until the morning. After
13:37dinner, the account says she asked her
13:39brother for a word and they went into a
13:41small library off the Carter and she
13:43shut the door. And she said to him
13:45plainly the way only Anne can say things
13:47to the king that what Camila had said at
13:50that table hadn't come from nowhere.
13:51that somebody had put it in her head and
13:54that if there were any private papers
13:56sitting in his boxes about what happens
13:58after his reign, she wanted to see them
14:00before he signed anything. Charles was
14:02hurt at first. He defended his wife. The
14:05people close to him say the way he's
14:06defended her for 50 years. He said she
14:09was only anxious that she worried about
14:11her family that she'd been through so
14:12much and said she knew all that. She
14:15said she wasn't accusing Camila of
14:17anything. She said she was worried about
14:18whoever had been talking to her. And the
14:21king, after a long silence, said yes.
14:23Now, getting the folder wasn't as simple
14:25as asking for it because the king hadn't
14:27really looked inside it yet. It was
14:29sitting in a box of his private papers
14:31in a pile marked for a quiet weekend at
14:34H Highrove. And the person who founded
14:36for Anne was a clerk in the Prevy Purse
14:39office, a woman in her 40s who's worked
14:41for the family for nearly 20 years, the
14:44account says, and who'd been uneasy
14:46about it since the summer. She'd noticed
14:48it come in. She'd noticed it hadn't come
14:50through the household's own solicitors,
14:52the ones who handle everything for the
14:53king and the duche. She'd noticed it
14:55mentioned H Highrove, which belongs to
14:58Williams duche, and that nobody had
15:00copied Williams office. She'd said
15:02something to her manager in August, and
15:04her manager had told her not to worry.
15:06It was the queen's personal business.
15:08So, when Anne's private secretary rang
15:10the office and asked whether there was
15:12anything in the king's papers about
15:14arrangements after the reign, she went
15:16to the box herself, took out the green
15:18folder, and walked it across the castle
15:20to Anne with both hands. The third
15:22document is a schedule, and it's the one
15:24I told you to remember. Page 31. Anne
15:28went through the green leather folder
15:29the following week at Windsor at a desk
15:32by a window with her reading glasses on
15:34and a pencil in her hand. The way she
15:36reads everything 40 odd pages she read
15:39everyone. She read the cottages and the
15:42staff guarantees and the patronages and
15:44the trusts. And on page 31 she found the
15:47clause that gave one man a fee for life
15:49paid out of private royal money binding
15:52on the next king for as long as any of
15:54those other promises lasted. She
15:56underlined his name and she asked one of
15:59the clerks in the privy purse office
16:01very quietly whether anybody had ever
16:03shown the queen that page. The clerk
16:05didn't know. So Anne asked Camila. Anne
16:08and Camila have known each other for
16:10more than 50 years. People forget that
16:12back in the early 70s before Camila
16:15married Andrew Parker BS. She went out
16:17for a while with a young Princess Anne.
16:19The two women have been around the same
16:21horses, the same racecourses, the same
16:23country houses for half a century. They
16:25aren't close in the way sisters are
16:27close, but they understand each other.
16:29The people who know them both say, "Two
16:32strong, plain-spoken country women who
16:34don't like fuss." "That conversation
16:36happened at Clarence house," the account
16:38says, over a pot of tea, the two of them
16:41alone. And it was the first time Camila
16:43had ever heard of page 31. The people
16:46around her say she went very pale and
16:48asked to see it and Anne turned the fold
16:50around and pointed to the line. Camila
16:52read it twice. She said the adviser had
16:55told her again and again that everything
16:57in the folder was for her family. She
17:00said he'd never once mentioned himself.
17:02That's when Anne understood that the man
17:05hadn't only been frightening Camila.
17:07He'd been using her fear to buy himself
17:10a pension from the crown. But there was
17:12still the memo, the quote, the words in
17:14inverted commiss supposedly Williams
17:17that Camila's family would be out within
17:19the month. Camila still believed that
17:21part and Anne could see she did. Anne
17:23went to William. The fourth document is
17:25a letter and it's William's own. Anne
17:28asked her nephew straight out whether
17:29he'd ever said it out within the month.
17:32And William, the people close to him
17:34say, looked at her as if she'd hit him.
17:36He said he'd never said anything like it
17:38in his life. Not in 2023. not ever, not
17:42to anybody. And then he went to a drawer
17:44in his study at Adelaide Cottage and
17:47took out a copy of something he'd
17:48written three years before, which he'd
17:50never shown to anybody else. In May
17:532023, in the week of the coronation,
17:56William had written Camila a private
17:58letter by hand. It thanked her for what
18:00she'd done for his father. It said he
18:02knew how hard the road had been for her.
18:04And it said the people who've seen it
18:06say that her family would always have a
18:08home with his in his father's time.
18:10women in his own. He meant it then, he
18:13meant it now. William gave Anne the copy
18:16and then he said something she didn't
18:18expect. The account says he said he
18:20wasn't angry with Camila. He said he'd
18:23heard what she said at dinner and it had
18:24hurt. But now he understood it. He said
18:27somebody had told her he was the kind of
18:29man who'd throw a widow's family out of
18:30their homes and she believed it because
18:33she'd spent 30 years being treated as if
18:35she didn't belong. He said, "If anybody
18:37should be angry, it was her with a man
18:41who'd lied to her." So, that's where it
18:43gets weird because for three years, a
18:46man in Camila's office had been telling
18:48her the opposite in quotation marks, as
18:52if William had said it to his face. And
18:54William had written her a letter saying
18:55the exact opposite in his own hand three
18:58years earlier. The two things cannot
19:00both be true, and Anne knew exactly
19:03which one was real. There was one more
19:06thing Anne needed. Something that would
19:08settle it. Not only for Camila, but for
19:10the king and for anybody who might ever
19:13try the same trick again. And she knew
19:15exactly where it was because she'd
19:16watched it being written. Anne had been
19:19thinking about it ever since that
19:21dinner. The people close to her say
19:23she'd been at Balmoral and her mother's
19:25last week in September 2022. She
19:28remembers almost everything about those
19:30days. the weather, which was gray and
19:32soft, her mother's dogs, the doctors
19:34coming and going, the constant small
19:37kindnesses of the staff. And one
19:39afternoon, when her mother asked for her
19:40writing paper and wrote a few lines that
19:42she said were for Charles, one day when
19:44he needed them, that whole summer had
19:46been quiet. The late queen went up to
19:48Balmoral in July as she always did. For
19:51the first time in decades, she didn't go
19:53to the Braor gathering, the Highland
19:55games down the road on the first
19:56Saturday in September. The family
19:58understood what that meant without
20:00anybody saying it. And still she worked.
20:03The red boxes came every day. She read
20:06them every day. Anne hadn't thought
20:08about that note for years. It was one of
20:10a hundred small things from a week she'd
20:12mostly tried not to remember. But when
20:14she heard Camila say, "Secured at that
20:17table in Windsor, it came back to her
20:19all at once. And she knew exactly what
20:21it said, and she knew where it would be.
20:23She went to the Royal Archives. The
20:25archives sit in the round tower at
20:28Windsor Castle high on the mound in the
20:30middle of the castle where the family
20:32has kept its private papers for
20:34generations. Anne asked the archavist
20:36for a file from September 2022. They
20:38brought it to her in a gray box and
20:40inside in a plain folder was a single
20:43sheet of the late queen's writing paper
20:45from Bal Marl. The archavist who brought
20:47it up the stairs has worked in the round
20:49tower for most of her career. The
20:51account says she's handled letters from
20:53Queen Victoria and diaries from the war.
20:55And she told a colleague afterwards that
20:57she'd never seen the Princess Royal sit
20:59so still. And took off her gloves to
21:02hold it, which she isn't supposed to do.
21:04She didn't read it at first. She looked
21:06at the handwriting for a long time. The
21:08way you look at a photograph of somebody
21:10you miss. Then she put her gloves back
21:12on and read it and asked the archivist
21:15for a copy and for the original to come
21:17to the king's study under escort the
21:18next morning. The fifth document, the
21:21one at the center of this whole story.
21:22It's a short note in fountain pen in the
21:25Queen's own clear upright hand. The
21:27people who've seen it say it's addressed
21:29to Charles and it's about the future. It
21:32says that when his time comes to an end,
21:34every decision about the family's houses
21:37and staff should be Williams to make. It
21:39says that she knows the questions people
21:41will ask about Camila's family and that
21:44she wants Charles to know she has no
21:45fears for them at all because she's
21:47watched William grow up and she knows
21:49the kind of man he is. And then one last
21:52line underlined, he will be kind to
21:54them. He always has been. At the top of
21:57the page, there's a date and Anne didn't
21:59need to read it because she'd been in
22:00the room at Balmoral when her mother
22:02wrote it. Anne took all five documents
22:04to her brother on a Monday morning at
22:06Windsor in his study. The memo, the
22:09green folder open at page 31, William's
22:12letter from the week of the coronation,
22:14and her mother's note from Balmoral and
22:17its plain folder on top. She didn't make
22:20a speech. She laid them out on his desk
22:23in the order I've given them to you, and
22:25she sat down opposite him and waited.
22:27The king read the memo first, the
22:30account says, and his face hardened at
22:32the words in inverted commas. He read
22:35page 31 and asked Anne who on earth had
22:37written it. He read William's letter and
22:40put it down very carefully and then he
22:42picked up his mother's note. He held it
22:44for a long time. The people around him
22:46say he read it three or four times. He
22:49traced the underlining with his finger
22:50and then he put it down on the desk and
22:52covered his eyes with one hand and sat
22:54like that without speaking for almost a
22:56minute. Then he did three things. He
22:58took the green leather folder and gave
23:00it back to his private secretary and
23:02told him that he would never sign
23:04anything in it and that every one of
23:06those drafts was to be withdrawn and the
23:08outside solicitors told so in writing
23:10that afternoon. He made a rule. From now
23:13on, no arrangement of any kind about
23:15what happens to the family's houses
23:17staff or money after his reign could be
23:19drawn up without the knowledge of the
23:21Prince of Wales and nothing of the kind
23:23would be valid without both their
23:24signatures. He said he wouldn't have his
23:26son's reign decided for him in rooms
23:28William wasn't allowed into. He said
23:30he'd seen enough of that in his own
23:32life. And he asked Anne to tell Camila
23:34with him together that evening. Before
23:37Anne left the study, the king asked her
23:40one more thing. The account says he
23:42asked her whether she thought Camila had
23:44known about page 31. And Anne told him
23:46the truth. She said no. She said she'd
23:49watched Camila's face when she saw it
23:51and that nobody could have pretended
23:53that. She said his wife had been
23:54frightened and lied to and that the only
23:56thing she was guilty of was trusting the
23:58wrong man. The king said that was the
24:00worst of it. That his wife had been that
24:02frightened for that long and had never
24:04once told him. He said he should have
24:06seen it. He said he'd spent 20 years
24:08making sure the country accepted her and
24:11he'd never noticed that she'd stopped
24:13believing his family had. The adviser
24:15found out the next morning and he found
24:18out in the way people in that world
24:19always do, not with a phone call, with a
24:22door. He had a meeting at Clarence house
24:25at 10:00. The account says a regular one
24:27with Camila's private office about the
24:29progress of the folder. He arrived a few
24:31minutes early as he always did in a good
24:34coat with a leather document case under
24:36his arm. And at the security desk inside
24:39the door, the officer looked at his
24:41pass, looked at the screen, and told him
24:43politely that it was no longer valid. He
24:45laughed the people who saw it say. He
24:47said, "There must be some mistake." And
24:49while he was saying it, Camila's private
24:51secretary came down the stairs into the
24:54hall with an envelope in her hand and
24:56gave it to him in front of the officer
24:58and two members of staff who were
24:59crossing the hall with a tea trolley.
25:01The letter said his services were no
25:03longer required. It said the drafts had
25:06been withdrawn. It said every
25:07arrangement in the folder, including the
25:09one on page 31, was void and nobody
25:11would ever sign it. And it said the
25:13household would be grateful if he'd
25:15return any papers belonging to the
25:16Queen's office by the end of the week.
25:18He read it standing up in his good coat
25:21with his document case under his arm
25:23while the tea trolley went past him and
25:25nobody said a word. Then he folded it,
25:27put it inside his coat, and walked back
25:29out through the door he'd come in by.
25:31He's never been back. The household told
25:34the solicitors who drawn up the drafts
25:36that same afternoon in writing that
25:38their instructions were withdrawn and
25:40that no fees beyond the work already
25:42done would be paid. And the household's
25:45own lawyers, the ones the adviser had
25:46gone around, received instructions to go
25:49through every other paper he'd ever
25:51touched in Camila's office line by line
25:53to make sure nothing else was waiting
25:55for his signature. They found two more
25:57small things. The account says both had
25:59his name in them somewhere. Both went
26:01the same way as the folder. That evening
26:04at Clarence House, Camila sat with her
26:06husband and his sister and put two
26:09pieces of paper in front of her. On the
26:11left, the advisor's memo with William's
26:14supposed words in inverted commas. On
26:17the right, Williams own letter from the
26:19week of the coronation in his own hand,
26:22saying that her family would always have
26:24a home with his. Camila read them both.
26:27She read the memo again, and then she
26:29read Williams letter a second time, more
26:32slowly, and the people around her say
26:35her hand was shaking by the end of it.
26:37And she looked up at Anne and said,
26:39"Five words. It was all a lie. Not
26:42William's letter. The other one. Two
26:45years of meetings and briefings and
26:47warnings and quotations. Two years of
26:50being frightened in her own home. And
26:52all of it invented by a man who'd been
26:55writing himself into her family's future
26:57on page 31. Charles took her hand, the
27:00account says, and held it. Nobody said
27:03anything for a while. Then Camila said
27:05something else. The people close to her
27:08say. She said she was ashamed, not of
27:11being frightened, but of having believed
27:13it, of having sat at a table with her
27:15husband's son, a man who'd been nothing
27:17but courteous to her for 20 years, and
27:20talked about him as if he were an enemy.
27:22She said the worst thing a frightened
27:24person can do is let somebody else tell
27:26them who to be afraid of. And the king
27:28told her that the man in the good coat
27:30had been very good at his job and that
27:32the job had been frightening her and
27:34that none of it was her fault. And then
27:36Camila asked whether she could see
27:38William. She went to Adelaide Cottage
27:41two days later on her own. Nobody else
27:44was in the room. And nobody knows
27:46exactly what was said. But the people
27:49close to them both say she apologized
27:51for what she'd said at that dinner table
27:53and told him about the memo and the
27:54meetings and how frightened she'd been.
27:56And William told her she should have
27:58asked him three years ago and that he
28:00wished she had. And then he told her the
28:02same thing he'd written in 2023 out loud
28:05this time so she'd never have to wonder
28:07again. She came out. The account says,
28:10"Looking 10 years younger, William rang
28:12Anne that night. He thanked her and
28:14Anne, who doesn't do sentiment, told him
28:17there was nothing to thank her for, that
28:18she'd only read what was in front of her
28:20and that it was his grandmother he ought
28:22to be thanking. Then she told him to
28:24make sure when his own time came that
28:26nobody ever got the chance to frighten
28:28anybody in his family the way that man
28:30had frightened Camila. Williams said he
28:33would he said he'd already started the
28:35day he wrote that letter in 2023. He
28:38hadn't known anybody needed to read it.
28:40Now think about what the public saw of
28:42all this because it's almost funny. The
28:44public saw the king and queen together
28:46in Cardiff for the opening of the Welsh
28:49Parliament. They saw them welcoming the
28:51Sultan of Oman to Windsor this week for
28:53a state visit. And on Wednesday, they
28:55saw the King, the Queen, and the Prince
28:56of Wales together at Abberfan on the
28:5860th anniversary, standing side by side
29:01in the memorial garden. The King and
29:03William laid wreaths. The Queen laid a
29:06posie. They walked down to the community
29:08center together, meeting people along
29:10the way, and they met survivors and
29:12bereaveved families and men and women
29:15who dug through the slurry with their
29:17hands in 1966.
29:19William unveiled a memorial tree at the
29:21village school. The king went to
29:23Abberfan in 2016 and planted a tree in
29:26that same garden. His mother went there
29:288 days after the disaster and said for
29:30the rest of her life that she wished
29:31she'd gone sooner. That's what the
29:33country saw. A family standing together
29:35at the saddest place in Wales. And at
29:38the very same moment, the internet was
29:40full of videos telling people that the
29:42king had thrown his wife out. Separate
29:45households, a snubbed queen at a
29:48reception, trunks loaded into a van and
29:51driven to Wiltshire. Millions of views,
29:54not one word of it true. I'll tell you
29:56what I think. There's a kind of person
29:57who makes money from frightening people
30:00about this family. Some of them do it on
30:02YouTube with yellow letters and red
30:04arrows. And one of them for two years
30:06did it from inside Camila's own office
30:09in a good coat for a fee. The methods
30:11are the same. find somebody's fear and
30:13sell it back to them. That evening at
30:15Clarence house before they parted,
30:17Camila asked Anne about the note. She'd
30:20seen it on the king's desk that morning.
30:22The account says, "The late queen's
30:24handwriting, the underlined line, he
30:27will be kind to them. He always has
30:29been." And she asked Anne quietly when
30:32it was written because it seemed to her,
30:34she said, that the old queen must have
30:36been thinking about her family's future
30:39a long time before anybody else was. An
30:42didn't need to look at the top of the
30:44page. She told her the 6th of September,
30:462022 at Bal Marl. She told Camila she'd
30:50been there. She'd been staying nearby
30:52and she'd gone up to the house that
30:54afternoon and she remembered it. She
30:57said because of what else happened that
30:58day, the 6th of September, 2022 was the
31:02day the late queen appointed her last
31:05prime minister. Liz Truss flew up to
31:08Balmoral and the Queen received her in
31:10the drawing room standing by the fire
31:13leaning on her stick smiling in a gray
31:16cardigan and a tartan skirt. The
31:18photograph of that moment went around
31:19the world. It's the last official
31:21photograph ever taken of her. Two days
31:24later on the 8th she died. And that
31:26afternoon, Anne told Camila after the
31:28prime minister had gone, her mother sat
31:30at the small desk by the window in her
31:33sitting room and asked for her writing
31:35paper. She was very tired. Her hand was
31:37slower than it had been, but she wrote
31:40that note to Charles herself with Anne
31:42sitting across the room. And when she'd
31:44finished, she underlined the last line
31:46and asked Anne to see that it went into
31:48the papers where Charles would find it
31:50one day. Anne said her mother had told
31:52her as she put the pen down that people
31:54would try to frighten Camila when the
31:56time came and that she wanted there to
31:58be a piece of paper in her own hand that
32:01said they had nothing to fear from
32:02William. 2 days before she died with a
32:05new government to a point and her own
32:07strength almost gone. The late queen had
32:10sat down and written a few lines to make
32:12sure her daughter-in-law would never be
32:14afraid of her grandson. Camila didn't
32:17say anything for a long time after Anne
32:19told her that. Then she said that she'd
32:21spent two years listening to a stranger
32:24when the answer had been sitting in a
32:25box at Windsor all along, written by the
32:28one person she'd been most afraid would
32:31never accept her. Next August on the
32:3331st, it'll be 30 years since Diana
32:36died. William's mother never got the
32:38kindness that his grandmother wrote down
32:40for Camila. Nobody wrote a note to
32:43protect Diana's place in the family when
32:45her marriage was ending. Nobody told the
32:47people frightening her that they were
32:49wrong. I think that's exactly why
32:51William has never once in all these
32:53years said a cruel word about his
32:55father's wife in public and why he wrote
32:57her that letter in 2023 without anybody
33:00asking him to. He knows what it's like
33:02to watch somebody you love be pushed out
33:05by arrangements made behind closed
33:06doors. He decided a long time ago he'd
33:09never do it to anybody else. Things
33:11stand like this now, as far as I can
33:13tell. The king and queen are together as
33:15they've been for 21 years of marriage
33:17and they'll fly together to the
33:18Caribbean for their tour at the end of
33:20the month. The rule the king made is in
33:22place. Nothing about the future of the
33:25family's homes and people can be
33:27arranged without William in the room.
33:29The outside solicitors have been paid
33:31off and told not to come back. The
33:34cottages at Highrove belong to the duche
33:36of Cornwall as they always did and to
33:38William. And the green leather folder is
33:41still in the king's study at Windsor.
33:42The people around him say he kept it. He
33:45had the drafts taken out and destroyed.
33:47Every page of them, page 31 included,
33:50and he put the empty folder on a shelf
33:52behind his desk where he can see it.
33:54Camila has seen it there. The people
33:56around her say she doesn't mind. She
33:58says it reminds her too of the afternoon
34:00she sat at a kitchen table at Ray Mill
34:03and thanked a stranger for asking her
34:04about afterwards and of the five words
34:07she said to Anne when she finally
34:09understood what he'd been doing. She's
34:11told her sister she'll never sign
34:12anything again without reading every
34:14page and that if there's ever a page she
34:16doesn't understand, she'll ring William
34:18and ask him herself. He told Dan it was
34:21there to remind him of how close he came
34:23to signing it and of how easily a man in
34:26a good coat can make a frightened woman
34:27believe that the people who love her are
34:30her enemies. There's a line inside the
34:32cover of that folder printed by the
34:35solicitors where the solicitors meant to
34:37write in the names of everybody who'd
34:38benefit.

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