Caroline Flack’s Former Publicist Slams Prince Harry’s ‘Appalling Book’ for Discussing ‘Private Details’ About Late TV Presenter

07.01.2023 - 22:43 / usmagazine.com

Caroline Flack‘s former publicist, Alex Mullen, slammed Prince Harry for detailing his relationship with the late TV presenter, who died by suicide in 2020.

“It’s absolutely gross for Prince Harry to reveal such private details about Caroline Flack,” the creative director of APM Media wrote via Instagram on Friday, January 7. “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.”

Mullen added, “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.”

In his book Spare, which will be released on Tuesday, January 10, the Duke of Sussex, 38, recalled his brief 2009 romance with the Love Island U.K. host. He remembered the media attacking her and insulting her middle-class upbringing.

“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,” Harry recalled in Spare. “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?”

In his Instagram post, Mullen continued: “Harry’s decision to remind all of the terrible things said about her to help sell his appalling book is grotesque.”

The AlphaOmega Records director additionally slammed the prince for speaking about Flack’s death, which happened more than a decade after their split. “Moreover, and perhaps worst of all, he writes as if he has any idea why Carrie took her own life,