Royal Aide Drops Secret Clip He Had Physical Fight with Wills at Backstage

A newly released book has revealed how Prince Harry and Prince William stunned one of the first aides they ever hired for their personal team by asking a bizarre question during the final interview.

The book titled “Courtiers, The Hidden Power Behind the Crown” written by Royal Correspondent Valentine Lowe detailed how the meeting between Miguel Head and the two princes went.

In 2008, Paddy Harvison, King Charles's communications officer, asked Mr Head whether he wanted to join the newly established team based at Clarence House looking after Harry and William.

Mr Head had impressed Charles's aide with his handling of the press following the return of the Duke of Sussex from his tour in Afghanistan.

After a few meetings with Mr Harvison and other members of Charles's team, Mr Head, who was in charge of the media blackout as the chief press officer at the Ministry of Defence, only had to succeed in his final interview with Harry and William to get the royal post.

However, the interview was not what Mr Head was expecting, according to Mr Lowe's book.

The meeting took place in a small sitting room in the office, just about big enough for two sofas.

He was offered tea, which came in a mug, somewhat to his surprise.

The other surprise was that, while he was wearing a suit and tie, the two princes were very casually dressed.

Harry was wearing flip-flops.

After a string of questions about the media, essentially designed to find out whether he would be a pushover with the press, he was asked the one question that really surprised him.

In the English Civil War in the 1600s, what side would you have been on?

The period of the Civil War lasted between 1642 and 1651 and saw two sides, the parliamentarians and the royalists, fighting over how England, Scotland and Ireland should be governed and religious freedom.

Mr Head decided he would provide Harry and William with an honest answer, even if it meant confessing he would have been on the side of the parliamentarians as someone who believes in parliamentary democracy.

Mr Head, however, stressed he believed the monarchy has an important and symbolic constitutional role and he would not have killed Charles I.

While he thought his honesty had not been appreciated, he later learned he had given the princes the right answer and got the job.

Mr Head worked as Harry and William's Press Secretary until 2012, when Charles I's first born appointed him his private secretary.

The aide, who had supported Harry and William in their twenties, left the royal household in 2018, following a decade of service.

Another pivotal aide who had joined the team focused on the princes in its early stage was Jamie Lowther Pinkerton.

The courtier was hired as Harry and William's private secretary in 2005 and remained in the post for several years.

Prince William and Kate, the Princess of Wales, chose his son Billy as one of their pages at their wedding and asked the former royal aide to be one of Prince George's godparents in 2013.

The former aide was also the chair of the committee put in place in 2017 by Harry and William to create the statue of Princess Diana unveiled on what would have been her 60th birthday, in July last year.

Among the guests who attended the unveiling ceremony was Mr Lowther Pinkerton.

In other news, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are currently being accused of having a hand in killing Netflix's upcoming series.

An inside source close to Page Six issued this insight in a recent interview.

They revealed that the couple seems adamant on downplaying much of what they have said about King Charles III, Camilla, Queen Consort, and the Prince and Princess of Wales.

They also admitted that “a lot of conversations are happening.

I hear that Harry and Meghan want the series to be held until next year, they want to stall.

I wonder if the show could even be dead in the water at this point, do Harry and Meghan just want to shelve this thing?”

Netflix has been keen to have the show ready to stream for December.

There's a lot of pressure on Netflix CEO, Ted Sarandos, who has the relationship with Harry and Meghan, to get this show finished.