Prince Willam allegedly gave his brother, Prince Harry a blunt, five-word warning when he joined the same school as him, according to the duke himself.
The Duke of Sussex attended several prestigious schools in England throughout his youth, but in 1998, he joined the Prince of Wales at Eton College.
Harry alleged in his memoir, Spare, that he did not particularly enjoy the prestigious school and that his brother did not want him to act like they knew each other.
Harry wrote in Spare: “In the early autumn of 1998, having completed my education at Ludgrove the previous spring, I entered Eton. A profound shock.
“The finest school in the world for boys, Eton was meant to be a shock, I think. Shock must’ve been part of its original charter, even perhaps a part of the instructions given to its first architects by the school’s founder, my ancestor Henry VI.”
He added that the school was “heaven for brilliant boys, it could thus only be purgatory for one very unbrilliant boy.”
The duke went on to claim that William had warned him when he entered the school, telling him, “You don’t know me, Harold”.
Harry wrote: “Willy told me to pretend I didn’t know him. What?
“You don’t know me, Harold. And I don’t know you.
“For the last two years, he explained, Eton had been his sanctuary. No kid brother tagging along, pestering him with questions, pushing up on his social circle.
He was forging his own life, and he wasn’t willing to give that up.”
However, elsewhere in the book, Harry painted a completely different pictured regarding the relationship with his brother close to the time when William married the Princess of Wales in 2011.
He wrote: “The brother I’d escorted into Westminster Abbey that morning was gone—forever.
“Who could deny it? He’d never again be first and foremost Willy. We’d never again ride together across the Lesotho countryside with capes blowing behind us.
“We’d never again share a horsey-smelling cottage while learning to fly. Who shall separate us? Life, that’s who.”
