Caroline Flack’s former supervisor has referred to as Prince Harry’s description of his relationship with the presenter in his memoir “disgusting” and “grotesque” and referred to as for him to be stripped of his titles.
Alex Mullen, the inventive director of APM Media, who beforehand labored with Flack, stated it was “absolutely gross” the royal had repeated “old long forgotten slurs” in his ebook Spare.
The prince and Flack briefly dated in 2009, and the presenter was described as “a bit of rough” in tabloid protection on the time.
The Love Island presenter took her personal life aged 40 in February 2020.
In a prolonged publish on Instagram, Mr Mullen, who says he labored with Flack over 12 years between 2008 and 2020, wrote: “It’s completely gross for Prince Harry to disclose such personal particulars about Caroline Flack.
“The way in which the press spoke about her at that time and the reason they split are both very sad and it’s disgusting he’s brought up old long forgotten slurs she had to suffer in full view of the public around the world.
“Of course, Caroline reacted to them with humour and charm however privately she was deeply damage; simply the primary of many injustices she did not deserve.
“Harry’s decision to remind all of the terrible things said about her to help sell his appalling book is grotesque.”
In the ebook, Prince Harry says he hadn’t identified who Flack was when he first met her at a restaurant with mates – telling her “I don’t watch much TV”.
Calling her “funny and loving,” he mentions a number of dates the couple went on to have, however says they determined to finish the connection on account of press harassment.
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He writes: “Very soon after [the photographers] papped me and Flack, those photos set off a frenzy. Within hours a mob was camped outside Flack’s parents’ house, and all her friends’ houses, and her grandparents’ house.”
He goes on: “She was described in one paper as my ‘bit of rough’, because she once worked in a factory or something. Jesus, I thought, are we really such a country of insufferable snobs?”
He says they continued to see one another “on and off, but we didn’t feel free any more”. He goes on: “The relationship was tainted, irredeemably, and in time we agreed that it just wasn’t worth the grief and harassment. Especially for her family.”
Flack additionally talked about the connection in her 2014 autobiography, Storm In A C Cup.
Later within the ebook, Prince Harry additionally mentions Flack’s dying, writing: “Caroline Flack, a very good friend of mine, had taken her own life. By the looks of things, she couldn’t bear it anymore.
“The years of fixed harassment by the press had killed her. I felt terrible for her household. I can not neglect how a lot she suffered for her deadly sin of going out with me.”
Criticising the mention of her death, Mr Mullen wrote: “Perhaps worst of all, he writes as if he has any thought why Carrie took her personal life, parroting media reviews as in the event that they’re actuality. Blaming the press as a result of that is what he examine it. He is aware of nothing.”
In his post, Mr Mullen went on to call for the royal family to “strip [Prince Harry] of all titles instantly”.
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Spare is formally printed tomorrow, nonetheless a number of leaks of the ebook – initially from America, after which from Spain – imply a lot of the content material is already within the public eye.
Prince Harry has additionally been publicising his ebook via high-profile interviews on each facet of the Atlantic, together with on ITV within the UK, and within the US on CBS, ABC’s Good Morning America and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
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