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Prince Harry claimed Prince William and King Charles were “menacing” as they united against him.
The Duke of Sussex has had a strained relationship with his older brother in recent years, and their sibling bond was fractured when Harry married Meghan Markle in 2018. The warring brothers’ feud continued, with the 39-year-old alleging William had once physically attacked him during an argument over Meghan in his kitchen, leaving Harry injured after being pushed over.
William and Harry’s estrangement worsened when the Duke of Sussex announced he and Meghan would be stepping down as senior working royals in 2020, and relocated to the US, where they launched a glitzy Hollywood career as they signed mega Netflix and Spotify deals, and mingled with their celeb pals. But Harry’s relationship with William was broken beyond repair when he and Meghan took part in an explosive tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021.
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Harry met with his father and brother before Prince Philip's funeral in April 2021 (CAMERA PRESS/David Dyson)However, just weeks later, Harry’s beloved grandfather Prince Philip died, meaning the Duke of Sussex was required to reunite with his family for the funeral. Flying in from the US amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the father-of-two detailed his trip to the UK in his memoir Spare, and revealed he felt intimidated by his brother William and father Charles when he requested to meet with them secretly to “talk about the state of things”.
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He recalled panicking that they had “changed their minds” about meeting with him while he was back in England, and admitted he “considered giving up” when he believed they weren’t going to come. However, when heading back to the house where his cousins, including Zara Tindall and Princess Eugenie, were gathered, Harry spotted William and Charles on their way to meet him.
Insiders claim William and Harry's relationship is beyond repair (2022 Karwai Tang)“Then, at last, I saw them. Shoulder to shoulder, striding towards me, they looked grim, almost menacing. More, they looked tightly aligned. My stomach dropped. Normally they’d be squabbling about one thing or another, but now they appeared to be in lockstep - in league. The thought occurred: Hang on, are we meeting for a walk...or a duel?” Harry wrote.
He confessed he felt a “hugely intense vulnerability”, and was taken back to the funeral of his mother, Princess Diana, and other important moments in his life as he revealed he had a “kind of hyper-awareness” as prepared to speak with William and Charles. Harry also revealed he was fearful of meeting with his brother and Charles, and compared it to “going into battle for the first time”.