King Charles III did half-naked headstands to handle ache

King Charles III would carry out half-naked headstands to handle his persistent ache from outdated polo accidents, Prince Harry reveals in his tell-all memoir.

The Duke of Sussex particulars his father’s “fixed neck and again ache” explains he’d dread by chance opening the incorrect door at Balmoral Castle out of worry for what was on the opposite aspect.

“Open the incorrect door and also you may burst in on Pa whereas his valet was serving to him gown,” Harry writes in “Spare.”

“Worse, you may blunder in as he was doing his headstands. Prescribed by his physio, these workout routines had been the one efficient treatment for the fixed ache in Pa’s neck and again.”

Harry, 38, shares that his father carried out the headstands “every day, in a pair of boxers” whereas “propped in opposition to a door or hanging from a bar like a talented acrobat.”

“If you set one little finger on the knob you’d hear him begging from the opposite aspect, ‘No! No! Don’t open! Please God don’t open!’”

It’s unclear if Charles, 74, remains to be performing his every day ritual.

Buckingham Palace hasn’t commented on any of the claims made within the redheaded royal’s memoir.

While Harry feels greater than snug to share what came about behind the king’s door, he additionally admits that he isn’t “at present” in contact along with his household, together with his father and his brother, Prince William.

The renegade royal and spouse Meghan Markle are hoping for a “non-public” and “constructive dialog” along with his household sooner or later.

“I actually stay up for having that household ingredient again,” he continued. “I stay up for having a relationship with my brother. I stay up for having a relationship with my father and different members of my household.”