{"id":4913,"date":"2026-08-04T21:17:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T21:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4913"},"modified":"2026-08-04T21:17:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T21:17:24","slug":"this-is-why-king-charles-is-now-at-harrys-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4913","title":{"rendered":"This Is Why King Charles Is Now at Harry\u2019s Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>King Charles has lost the gatekeeper who stood between him and Prince Harry\u2014and a pair of experts say it could mark a turning point. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4911\">Cornered MAGA Senator Condemns Accused Wife Beater\u2019s \u2018Grotesque\u2019 Mistake<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Buckingham Palace announced last week that Sir Clive Alderton, the King\u2019s most senior aide, will step down next year after working for Charles and Camilla for two decades. <\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Speaking on <i>The Royalist <\/i>podcast, royal reporter Valentine Low said Harry views Alderton as one of the key figures in Charles\u2019 inner circle responsible for driving a wedge between him and his father.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHarry&#8230; is pretty scathing about Clive in his memoir <i>Spare<\/i>,\u201d Low said. \u201cOne of the things about <i>Spare<\/i> is he doesn\u2019t actually name his enemies, but the intelligent or the well-informed reader knows who they are. And he comes up with this description of&#8230; the important private secretaries as being the bee, the fly, and the wasp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClive in that was the wasp. Harry basically describes how he\u2019s very sort of charming and courtier-like and self-effacing, but, you know, if you cross him, if you push back\u2014in Harry\u2019s view\u2014you\u2019d learn about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Low, a former royal correspondent for The Times, noted that he had learned firsthand that \u201cit\u2019s not necessarily a strategically wise thing to get on the wrong side of Clive Alderton.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpeaking as someone who, you know, he hasn\u2019t always treasured everything I\u2019ve written about him. And I think he, should we say, remembers that to this day,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Sykes, the Daily Beast\u2019s royal expert and European editor-at-large, asked what \u201cwent so wrong\u201d between Harry, 41, and Alderton, 59. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4909\">Trump Freaks Out as Vanity Project Goes Sideways<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Low noted that Alderton represented the 77-year-old king\u2019s interests as well as those of the \u201cpalace machinery,\u201d which was not necessarily aligned with those of Harry and Meghan, who left their roles as working royals and moved to California in 2020. <\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThere was a certain amount of antipathy\u2014I mean neither Meghan nor Harry liked Clive. He wasn\u2019t their kind of guy, and they didn\u2019t trust him, rightly or wrongly,\u201d Low said. \u201cBecause what you have to remember about these palaces, it\u2019s all separate fiefdoms, isn\u2019t it? And sub-fiefdoms. And so Harry\u2019s was a sub-fiefdom.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Sykes said that \u201cif you speak to Harry\u2019s people now,\u201d they blame Alderton for blocking Harry from receiving taxpayer-funded security from the Royal and VIP Executive Committee (RAVEC), on which Alderton sits\u2014a dispute over RAVEC nearly derailed Harry\u2019s trip to the U.K. in July. <\/p>\n<p>Harry, Meghan, and their two children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, met Charles and Camilla at Highgrove House in Gloucestershire during the trip\u2014the first time the King has seen his grandchildren in person in more than four years. <\/p>\n<p>But blaming Alderton for \u201ceverything\u201d is \u201ca bit absurd,\u201d Sykes said.<\/p>\n<p>Low agreed, saying that regarding the RAVEC security Harry is seeking, \u201cThe palace private secretaries have an input\u2014obviously, their voice is listened to\u2014but in the end, I don\u2019t think it\u2019ll affect it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sussexes\u2019 office and Buckingham Palace did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><i><b>Join veteran royal correspondent <\/b><\/i><i><b>Tom Sykes<\/b><\/i><i><b> in the throne room to find out how the secret world of the palace really operates\u2014every bit of royal tea you could need. New Royalist <\/b><\/i><i><b>podcasts will be released every Tuesday on YouTube<\/b><\/i><i><b>, and the next day on <\/b><\/i><i><b>all podcast platforms<\/b><\/i><i><b>.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4907\">Trump Goon Moves to Dismiss More Reflecting Pool Cases<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Charles has lost the gatekeeper who stood between him and Prince Harry\u2014and a pair of experts say it could mark a turning point. Read more Cornered MAGA Senator Condemns Accused Wife Beater\u2019s \u2018Grotesque\u2019 Mistake Buckingham Palace announced last week that Sir Clive Alderton, the King\u2019s most senior aide, will step down next year after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>This Is Why King Charles Is Now at Harry\u2019s Mercy - Nationwide Inter State Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4913\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This Is Why King Charles Is Now at Harry\u2019s Mercy - Nationwide Inter State Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"King Charles has lost the gatekeeper who stood between him and Prince Harry\u2014and a pair of experts say it could mark a turning point. 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