Prince William and Prince Harry will attend an award ceremony together to honour their late mother, Princess Diana, tonight – but they will be marking the moment separately.
William will attend the Diana Legacy Awards at the Science Museum in person to deliver a speech to mark the charity’s 25th anniversary.
Harry, meanwhile, will meet award winners virtually after the ceremony when he speaks to them from his home in California – but only once his brother has left.
The gulf between the two Princes has never been wider – and it’s something that King Charles tried to address shortly after the death of his own father, Prince Philip, reports the Mirror.
It was Harry who recounted the incident in his tell-all memoir, Spare. In it, he revealed that Charles had pleaded with his two sons to stop fighting in the wake of Philip’s passing in April 2021.
The Princes’ father is said to have urged them to stop fighting at Windsor after the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral.
In a tense meeting after the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral, a grieving Charles said: “Please, boys. Don’t make my final years a misery,” Harry claims.
Prince William and Prince Harry were once very close, according to former royal bodyguard Ken Wharfe. He was employed by the royal family from 1986 until 1993.
“It was a very happy union. It was a very happy family,” he said. However, since the Princes got married and started their own families, they have grown apart.
Recently, Harry has made some harsh comments about his brother and their family, even claiming there was a physical fight between them in his book Spare.
Furthermore, it’s been suggested that the brothers no longer talk after Harry felt William wasn’t friendly enough towards his wife, Meghan Markle.
Mr Wharfe spoke about William and Harry’s childhood, saying that “Harry was always the joker, the entertainer”, and mentioned “sibling rivalry” between the two.
He added: “I suppose it would be quite common for the sort of sibling rivalry that was, for the eldest William to be slightly nervous or envious of Harry because he was so popular.”
He confirmed that Harry was the “entertainer” and the “court jester” in his conversation with The Sun, with William finding it “slightly different”. But Mr Wharfe did say that the pair “were funny”.
