Breaking News: Final years’: Ominous King Charles admission resurfaces….Read More

One comment the King made in the recent past has just resurfaced, and it reveals something very grim about His Majesty’s future.

Out of the mouths of babes”, or so the Bible-y expression goes.

Its meaning is simple: Sometimes those most naive among us accidentally reveal the most.

Whether you think that Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex is a babe, and using whichever definition of the word you fancy (hottie or immature tyke), well, that’s between you and your god slash browser history, but a line from his nearly two-year-old memoir has taken on a grim new light.

As shocking as it might be to consider, it is less than two years since he published his roman-a-tone-deaf, Spare, a book that carved a swath through the bestseller lists and the sleepless nights of Buckingham Palace courtiers. We all know the high notes – that he lost his virginity in a field behind a pub, Prince William clocked him in a row over wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex and he thought it was fine to describe an Eton house matron as THING.

It feels like I’ve been writing about Spare since long before my fingers were bleeding nubbins thanks to oh-so-much keyboard tappity-tapping, but here we are.

But it’s a line in chapter one that we need to revisit. The scene: The lush gardens of Frogmore House on April 9, 2021, the day the royal family laid Prince Philip and his favourite barbecue tongs to rest.

Only one month earlier, the Sussexes’ Oprah Winfrey interview had aired and jaws had dropped so extravagantly reams of physios were put on high alert.

The duke had flown back for the sombre day and Charles and Prince William had joined him to talk. In the ensuing conversation, he writes that the King begged his sons, “Please, boys – don’t make my final years a misery”.

“His voice sounded raspy, fragile. It sounded, if I’m being honest, old,” Harry writes.