Tina Brown wrote that Harry and Alderton had a personal enmity and that dominated Alderton’s advice to King Charles to not welcome Harry back to the royal fold. The replacement of Alderton by a figure without any personal animosity with Harry could “create a new, friendlier path for negotiations with Harry”. In his memoir Spare, Harry christened Alderton as “The Wasp” — such is the extent of their enmity.