Prince Harry enthusiastically confetti bombing King Charles III at his wedding to Queen Camilla has gone viral on TikTok.
In his book Spare, the Duke of Sussex said both he and Prince William opposed the marriage, which came in April 2005, eight years after Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris.
As cameras recorded husband and wife emerging into a cloud of ticker tape, Harry and William showered them in confetti shortly before they climbed into a waiting car.
Prince Harry in New York City on September 23, 2024. Inset, King Charles III and Queen Camilla at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, on April 9, 2005. Harry played a prank on his father on the king’s wedding day by confetti-bombing him.
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Harry appeared particularly vigorous as he held his hand above his head shortly before throwing his confetti down from above.
A clip of the moment went viral on TikTok where it was posted alongside images of Harry as a child with his mother Princess Diana.
The edit was liked 47,000 times and viewed by 539,000 after being posted with the message: “Harry and Diana forever.”
One comment read: “She really loved her children. The real and only QUEEN.”
Harry wrote in Spare: “Willy and I promised Pa that we’d welcome Camilla into the family.
“The only thing we asked in return was that he not marry her. ‘You don’t need to remarry,’ we pleaded. A wedding would cause controversy. It would incite the press.
“It would make the whole country, the whole world, talk about mummy, compare mummy and Camilla, and nobody wanted that. Least of all Camilla.
“‘We support you,’ we said. ‘We endorse Camilla,’ we said. ‘Just please don’t
marry her. Just be together, pa.’ He didn’t answer.”
By the time the wedding came around, however, Harry appeared to have mellowed somewhat—though some misgivings about the now queen consort still shines through in his book.
“Despite Willy and me urging him not to, pa was going ahead. We pumped his hand, wished him well. No hard feelings,” he wrote.
“We recognized that he was finally going to be with the woman he loved, the woman he’d always loved, the woman fate might’ve intended for him in the first place.
“Whatever bitterness or sorrow we felt over the closing of another loop in mummy’s story, we understood that it was beside the point.”
“I had complex feelings about gaining a stepparent who, I believed, had recently sacrificed me on her personal PR altar,” he continued. “But I saw pa’s smile and it was hard to argue with that, and harder still to deny the cause: Camilla.
“I wanted so many things, but I was surprised to discover at their wedding that one of the things I wanted most, still, was for my father to be happy.
“In a funny way I even wanted Camilla to be happy. Maybe she’d be less dangerous if she was happy?”
Jack Royston is chief royal correspondent for Newsweek, based in London. You can find him on X, formerly Twitter, at @jack_royston and read his stories on Newsweek‘s The Royals Facebook page.
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