The Duke of Sussexes’ relationship with his brother was never the same after the Prince of Wales married Kate Middleton in 2011 according to a royal author.
Harry’s relationship with William started to fall apart after he married Kate and became very close with the Middletons (Image: Steve Parsons – Pool/Getty Images)
Prince Harry could not understand Prince William’s “obsession” with his Middleton in-laws after marrying his wife Kate according to a royal author.
Tina Brown, who is the author of the 2022 book The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor spoke to a royal aide who claims the Duke of Sussexes’ relationship with his older brother changed forever after William and Kate’s wedding in 2011.
According to the aide, the distance between the two siblings increased even further after the couple welcomed their second child, Princess Charlotte in 2015, the Mirror reports.
The writer, who is also a journalist and broadcaster, said Harry and William were still “incredibly close” at the time as they both lived at Kensington Palace, shared the same office and spent a lot of time together.
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However, Ms Brown added the 39-year-old duke “mourned his us-against-the-world bond with William” after the Prince of Wales married Kate.
According to a royal expert, the duke mourned his “us-against-the-world bond” with his older brother after William started to settle down and have a family (Image: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Image)
The royal expert also claims Harry felt “displaced” by William’s new found family unit and could not understand his brother’s “obsession” with his Middleton in-laws, as he allegedly found their life to be rather boring.
“The [Waleses] had become a tight unit, and William a full-on Windsor country bumpkin. On weekends when he wasn’t chez Middleton, he was tramping the grounds of Anmer Hall, the red-brick Georgian mansion on the Sandringham Estate that the Queen gave the couple as a wedding present, wearing a flat cap and tweed jacket like his ‘turnip toff’ Norfolk farmer friends.”
Harry is said to have not understood his brother’s “obsession” with his Middleton in-laws who he found very “boring” (Image: Andrew Parsons – WPA Pool/Getty Images)
But the two brothers were not without their bickers and in that time that followed, William “felt Harry’s unabated Jack the Lad behaviour was getting tiresome”, the Express reports.
He also was “less amused than the British public” when details such as Harry’s strip billiards “debacle” in Las Vegas were unearthed.
This all came around the same time the Prince of Wales was becoming more in tune with his wife’s family whose “stability” he found comforting. Joe Little, the Managing Editor of Majesty Magazine, said Kate “brought her family” when it came to cementing her position within the Firm.
He explained: “William fitted into the Middleton family very quickly and they took to him as a future son-in-law. I think also a bit of stability and grounding and a bit of normality that William perhaps wasn’t too familiar with when growing up because clearly his parents’ marriage was facing difficulties when he was a child and he was very aware of that and eventually their marriage disintegrated.
“With the Middletons, he got stability and a bit of normality, so for that William will forever be grateful.”
