Their reunion in Kensington Gardens at the start of the summer was eagerly awaited, after long months of tension … Despite a few smiles in front of the photographers, the mood was said to have been tense between Prince William and Prince Harry , at the time to inaugurate the new statue tribute to their mother Diana , on the day she would have been 60 years old. Six months later, a Sunday Times source confides that Prince William was on edge that day …
A “close friend” of the Duke of Cambridge indeed reports that the latter did not want to go to this event with his brother. ” William was still pissed off. He felt he had done a lot already. He just didn’t want to go [with Harry].” An assistant to Kate Middleton added that her boss had been “incredible” when Prince Harry returned to the United Kingdom, in the role of mediator.
Already offended by the hasty departure of his little brother for Canada, then the United States, two years ago now, Prince William would have been particularly hurt by the truth interview of the Sussexes on American television. An interview with Oprah Winfrey broadcast in March 2021, during which Prince Harry and Meghan Markle confided in their discomfort within the monarchy, on the lack of support from the royal family, going so far as to claim to have heard a racist remark at the time of the birth of their son Archie (in May 2019). A few days later, at the turn of an outing with Kate Middleton, Prince William was then out of his reserve to launch: ” We are really not a racist family .”
The first reunion of the two brothers in April 2021, at the time of Prince Philip’s funeral in Windsor, gave hope for a beginning of reconciliation, helped by Kate Middleton . But William and Harry would have quarreled behind the scenes, if we are to believe the information of biographer Robert Lacey, relayed in his book Battle of Brothers . Since it has been difficult to know where relations between the Sussexes and the Cambridges stand, so much has been said about the matter, on both sides of the Atlantic …