Caroline Flack’s former agent has slammed Prince Harry for using his brief fling with the late star to sell copies of his book, Spare.
The controversial read was accidentally released early in Spain this week, and included private details of the short-lived relationship between Caroline and Prince Harry.
It documents how they met, intimate details of their time together, and how they parted ways after “pressure” from the press, The Mirror reports.
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But Caroline’s former publicist Alex Mullen said the revelations said it was “grotesque” for Harry to use the stories of the former Love Island host in his book.
"It’s absolutely gross for Prince Harry to reveal such private details about Caroline Flack,” he said. "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 grace but privately she was deeply hurt; just the first of many injustices she didn’t deserve. Harry’s decision to remind all of the terrible things said about her to help sell his appalling book is grotesque.
"Moreover, and perhaps worst of all, he writes as if he has any idea why Carrie took her own life, parroting media reports as if they’re reality. Blaming the press because that’s what he read about it. He knows nothing.
"Perhaps he should be considering how he and Meghan Markle might have caused Queen Elizabeth II pain just as she lost her husband of 70 years and while she was on the path to her final goodbye. The Royal Family needs to strip him of all titles immediately."
Harry goes into great detail about first meeting the former Love Island host at a restaurant in 2009, but insists their meeting was “months” after breaking up with long-term ex girlfriend Chelsy Davy. He says how Caroline was not “taken aback” by the fact he did not know who she was, and that he found her to be “funny, sweet, and cool”.
Opening up about their short fling, Harry then shares: “Very soon after they 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. She was described in one paper as my ‘bit of rough’, because she once worked in a factory or something,” he continued. “Jesus, I thought, are we really such a country of insufferable snobs?”
The pair broke-off the relationship apparently deciding that it wasn’t worth the “grief” and that their parting words to each other were “goodbye and good luck”, with Harry saying the the brief encounter was "tainted" by the press.
Later, Harry speaks about first hearing the "horrible truth" that Caroline had died and feeling 'so awful' for her family. "She’d been so light and funny that night we met. The definition of carefree,” he said.
Caroline too addressed the romance in her 2014 memoir Storm in a C Cup, saying: “I was no longer Caroline Flack, TV presenter, I was Caroline Flack, Prince Harry’s bit of rough. Once the story got out, that was it. We had to stop seeing each other.”
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