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Prince Harry accepts his brother William’s apology and brings his wife and children back to the royal family: “I have forgiven William after being granted the new title of…”

Inside Prince Harry and Prince William’s Royal Rift Which Has Hit an ‘All-Time Low’

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Prince Harry and Prince William’s relationship is not on the mend, according to royal expert Katie Nicholl.
The royal rift between Prince William and Prince Harry is alive and well.

In June 2024, royal expert Katie Nicholl told ET that relations between William and his wife, Kate Middleton, and Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, remain “at an all-time low.”

It’s not a totally unexpected update, as the duo has long shown signs of a serious rift, even before Harry and Meghan made the decision to step away from royal life and relocate to America in 2020.

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Things have not improved in the following years, even as both King Charles III and the Princess of Wales battle cancer.
In November 2023, a source close to the matter told ET that Harry and William’s relationship “has not improved since the publication of [Harry’s memoir] Spare and there is no reconciliation expected anytime soon.”

“There is no real trust at the moment and that needs to be rebuilt,” the source said. “There’s a great deal of hurt on both sides.”

Now, ET delves into what went wrong in the brothers’ relationship, what was said in Harry’s memoir and where they stand today.

Harry Was Always the ‘Spare’

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Princess Diana with Prince Harry, Prince William and their dad, King Charles III – David Levenson/Getty Images
In his memoir, Spare, Harry says the term was used throughout his life by “Pa and Mummy and Grandpa. And Even Granny.”
I was the shadow, the support, the Plan B,” he writes. “I was brought into the world in case something happened to Willy. I was summoned to provide back-up, distraction, diversion and, if necessary, a spare part. Kidney, perhaps. Blood transfusion. Speck of bone marrow. This was all made explicitly clear to me from the start of life’s journey and regularly reinforced thereafter.”

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When Harry moved to Eton school, his older brother wanted distance between them.

“Willy always hated it when anyone made the mistake of thinking us a package deal,” Harry writes in Spare. “He loathed it when Mummy dressed us in the same outfits… And now to attend the same school was pure murder.”

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