Prince William hasn’t seen eye to eye with his brother Prince Harry in recent years.

Prince Harry and Prince William
The two brothers have been in the midst of a feud in recent years (Image: UK Press via Getty Images)

Prince William “doesn’t understand” why Prince Harry wants an apology from his family.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped down as working royals in 2020 and moved to the US to pursue a life away from the royal family. In a bid to start their new life, the couple embarked on a series of new projects striking deals with Netflix, Spotify and Penguin Random House.

The couple sat down for a tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey, and in December 2022 they released a Netflix documentary titled Harry & Meghan, where they included details about their lives as working royals. In January 2023, Harry released his memoir Spare where he recalled a physical fight between himself and William.

 

Harry also alleged Kate Middleton and William encouraged his infamous Nazi costume incident, as well as referring to Queen Camilla as “the other woman” and claimed she leaked stories about him to the press. The Duke has been open about his desire for an apology from his family, but according to one expert William “doesn’t understand” why.

Royal historian Gareth Russell says the Prince of Wales doesn’t understand why anyone would be apologising to the Sussexes. He told GB News: “In Spare, he spent so much time complaining about who got the better room at Balmoral.

Prince Harry, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge during the Commemoration of the Centenary of the Battle of the Somme at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Thiepval Memorial on July 1, 2016 in Thiepval, France.

William is still said to be hurting from his ongoing feud with Prince Harry (Image: Steve Parsons – Pool/Getty Images)

“Plus, for it to be released in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis was an interesting move. It does emerge as quite personal and maybe longstanding, and maybe it is jealousy. As the title of the memoir suggests, Prince Harry has always felt like a spare, so basically it’s just the luck of the family tree there.

“He makes quite cryptic comments like ‘They know what they did’. Which, given that he’s prepared to specify in detail everything else is strange. So I don’t think anyone’s 100 percent sure what it is. Even according to Prince Harry himself, Prince William doesn’t know what it is.”

He claimed: “There’s a bit in the memoir where Prince Harry says, William was asking, ‘What is it? What is the problem?’ And Prince Harry said to himself, ‘How could he not know?’ So I think maybe there’s a lot of things that Prince Harry is carrying around.

“But it’s possible that even Prince William isn’t 100 percent sure what all of them saw, according to Prince Harry.”

Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (L) and Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge attend the unveiling of a statue of their mother, Princess Diana at The Sunken Garden in Kensington Palace, London on July 1, 2021, which would have been her 60th birthday.

Prince William and Harry are currently not on speaking terms (Image: DOMINIC LIPINSKI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

In an interview earlier this year, Harry said: “The way I see it is, I’m willing to forgive you [the Royal Family] for everything you’ve done.

“I wish you’d actually sat down with me, properly, and instead of saying I’m delusional and paranoid, actually sit down and have a proper conversation about this, because what I’d really like is some accountability. And an apology to my wife.”