Prince William and Prince Harry’s relationship is “done”, a royal expert has claimed.
The brothers, who have been embroiled in a longtime feud ever since Harry aired personal stories about the royal family in his biography Spare, are unlikely to reconcile in the near-future, with more pressing matters at the top of William’s list of priorities.
“Everything I’m told about that relationship is that it couldn’t be worse,” The Mirror’s royal editor Russell Myers revealed on Hello’s A Right Royal Podcast.
Myers, who authored the new book William and Catherine: An Intimate Inside Story, didn’t completely rule out a reunion, adding: “Maybe there is a time in the future.”
However, despite the positive outlook, he surmised that the hatchet won’t be buried anytime soon.
“There is an awful lot going on,” he shared of William’s full plate, detailing Princess Kate’s recent cancer treatment, King Charles’ current cancer treatment and raising three children – alongside other royal responsibilities.
According to the expert, William’s long list of duties must and will take precedence over patching things up with his brother.
“When you’re looking at the checklist of things that are important to them, that’s way down the list,” the author explained.
It comes after Myers’s recent claims that Harry, 41, and William’s, 43, alleged brawl was “massively overblown”.
The Duke of Sussex made headlines in 2023 when he released his memoir Spare, which contained a number of claims regarding the royal family, particularly the Prince of Wales.
The royal raised eyebrows when he recalled what he described as a “physical attack” by his brother in 2019 following an argument about Harry’s wife Meghan Markle.
Flash forward to now, an insider told Myers that Harry’s decision to air the argument was “a cheap shot”.
“Tensions were running very high, and yes, there certainly were cross words exchanged that on reflection were regrettable, but the Prince [William] is adamant there was no physical violence,” Myers wrote in his new tome.
What’s more, a separate source disclosed that palace staff had been “ground down” by the Sussexes at the time, something that William and his wife Kate Middleton were not going to condone.
“It wasn’t peddling a tabloid narrative to stick up for staff that were deeply unhappy to the point of walking away or having their mental health being affected,” he added.
In Spare, the Duke of Sussex alleged that his brother confronted him at his then-residence Nottingham Cottage in 2019, where the future King called Harry’s wife Meghan “difficult,” “rude” and “abrasive”.
The argument saw Harry accuse William of “parrot[ing of] the press narrative”, which allegedly resulted in the future King erupting into name-calling aimed at his younger brother.
According to the Duke of Sussex, he tried to calm his brother down during the tense encounter, offering him a glass of water to diffuse the situation.
“He set down the water, called me another name, then came at me. It all happened so fast. So very fast,” Harry wrote.
“He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor. I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out.”