
Queen Camilla is keeping her distance from the ongoing tension between King Charles, Prince William, and Prince Harry.
As King Charles and Prince Harry face a critical juncture in their strained relationship — and with William still not speaking to his brother — Camilla is choosing not to involve herself in the family drama.
“She stays out of it,” a source tells PEOPLE in this week’s exclusive cover story.
The rift within the royal family became public in 2020 when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped back from their royal duties. Since then, the divide between King Charles and his younger son has remained one of the most painful challenges of his reign.

Harry and Meghan relocated to the United States following growing tensions within the royal family. Their relationship with the Firm became even more strained after a series of headline-making interviews, a revealing Netflix documentary, and Harry’s memoir Spare, where he referred to Camilla as “dangerous.”
In his 2023 memoir, the Duke of Sussex opened up about the complex feelings he experienced surrounding his father’s 2005 marriage to Camilla. He also claimed that she had shared stories about him with the media in an attempt to boost her public image.

In his memoir, Prince Harry opened up about his mixed emotions around gaining a stepmother, saying, “I had complex feelings about gaining a stepparent, who I thought had recently sacrificed me on her personal PR altar.”
During a 2023 interview with Good Morning America, he elaborated: “She had a reputation or an image to rehabilitate, and whatever conversations happened, whatever deals or trading was made right at the beginning, she was led to believe that that would be the best way to doing it.”
When asked about their relationship today, he shared: “We haven’t spoken for a long time. I love every member of my family, despite the differences. So when I see her, we’re perfectly pleasant with each other. She’s my stepmother. I don’t look at her as an evil stepmother. I see someone who married into this institution, and done everything she can to improve her own reputation and her own image, for her own sake.”