So what DID Carrie tell pals about royals?
HOW fortunate for Boris Johnson’s ambitious wife, Carrie, that she has already had her longawaited stay with the Queen, because there could have been much embarrassment during those moorland walks and barbecues at Balmoral.
For I hear that an American magazine is about to publish a fascinating profile of Carrie that will allegedly include claims that she has made disparaging comments about members of the Royal Family in the past.
The journalist who has written the article, Lara Prendergast, is a protegee of Dominic Cummings’s wife, Mary Wakefield. Cummings quit No10 last year after falling out with Boris over the influence of the PM’s wife, among other things.
Prendergast has been asking friends of Carrie, 33, about remarks that she’s supposed to have made about senior royals.
‘We’ve been shocked at some of the claims,’ one of Carrie’s pals tells me. ‘We wonder what her agenda is.’
Carrie’s chums insist that she loves the Queen and greatly admires the royals.
The article is also said to report that one of Carrie’s close friends spent Christmas with the couple at a time of strict coronavirus restrictions.
Over the festive period, two households weren’t allowed to mix indoors in London unless part of a ‘support bubble’.
Her pals point to a very unflattering article that Prendergast wrote about her last year for The Spectator, where Wakefield is a senior executive. It claimed that Carrie was unsupportive of other women and tried to push her animal rights agenda through government.
Prendergast was commissioned by U.S. magazine Harper’s to ‘explain Carrie to a global audience’ and has been trying to get her friends to spill the beans on her thoughts, feelings and personality.
The last glossy magazine profile of Carrie caused uproar.
Under the headline, ‘The most powerful woman in Britain,’ Tatler claimed that she was appalled by Theresa May’s ‘John Lewis nightmare’ furniture at No 10. It sparked the flat redecoration scandal, during which this newspaper found that tens of thousands of pounds had been spent on plush items from Lulu Lytle’s company Soane Britain, including gold wallpaper.
A No10 spokesman tells me: ‘The Prime Minister has followed coronavirus rules at all times.’
On Carrie’s alleged criticism of the royals, the spokesman says: ‘This is categorically untrue.’