{"id":765896,"date":"2026-09-10T07:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/765896\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T07:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:10:16","slug":"prince-william-will-be-watching-estranged-brother-harry-closely-following-uk-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/765896\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William ‘will be watching’ estranged brother Harry ‘closely’ following UK return"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince William will reportedly keep a close eye on his estranged brother, Prince Harry, after the latter unexpectedly moved back to the UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWilliam will be watching his brother very closely and trying to work out what his game plan is,\u201d Grant Harrold, a former royal butler, told Us Weekly<\/a> in an interview published Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Harrold believes William is still upset over Harry\u2019s bombshell allegations<\/a> about their relationship exposed in the latter\u2019s 2023 memoir, \u201cSpare.\u201d<\/a> \u201cI don\u2019t believe he\u2019s happy Harry is back in the UK at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prince William (seen here in 2022) will reportedly be on the lookout for Prince Harry after the latter returned to the UK. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cWilliam will be watching his brother very closely and trying to work out what his game plan is,\u201d former royal butler Grant Harrold told Us Weekly. (seen here: Harry, William, Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton.) POOL\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

A source told the outlet that the brothers\u2019 \u201crelationship was already broken,\u201d explaining, \u201cThe move doesn\u2019t break it again [but] it does put the break in the same country.\u201d<\/p>\n

The insider shared that the Duke of Sussex and his wife, Meghan Markle, returning to the UK is a \u201cshock\u201d to William and Princess Kate Middleton, both 44.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re still processing it, but their initial surprise has evolved, and they\u2019re taking a wait-and-see approach,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

Harrold doesn\u2019t think William (seen here) is \u201chappy Harry is back in the U.K. at all.\u201d NTB\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Harry and Meghan Markle\u2019s move back to the UK reportedly came as a shock to William and Princess Kate Middleton (seen here). Chris Jackson\/coolGetty Images<\/p>\n

As for a potential reunion between William and Harry, the source isn\u2019t betting on whether it will happen anytime soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one\u2019s booking a table for two for William and Harry,\u201d the insider claimed. \u201cEveryone wants a reunion story, but it\u2019s not something that\u2019s in the cards.\u201d <\/p>\n

If a reunion occurs in the future, the insider believes it \u201cwill be a slow and private process,\u201d and on the Prince of Wales\u2019 terms.<\/p>\n

A rep for Harry and William wasn\u2019t immediately available to Page Six for comment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re still processing it, but their initial surprise has evolved, and they\u2019re taking a wait-and-see approach,\u201d an insider told the outlet about the couple (seen above). Getty Images<\/p>\n

According to the source, they doubt Harry and William will reunite anytime soon. Getty Images<\/p>\n

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Last month, Page Six confirmed that Harry, 41, and Markle, 45, along with their kids \u2014 Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5 \u2014 were moving back to the UK<\/a> for\u00a0\u201can extended period.\u201d The family wasted no time in packing their bags and landed in London one week later.<\/p>\n

An insider told us the Duke and Duchess of Sussex wanted to be closer to King Charles III as he continues to battle cancer.<\/a><\/p>\n

However, the couple is in England as \u201cprivate citizens with commercial and charitable interests\u201d <\/a>and not working royals, a palace office told the BBC Monday.<\/p>\n

Markle and Harry (seen here) moved back to the UK last month. WireImage<\/p>\n

The couple (seen here with their kids) are expected to stay abroad for an extended period of time. meghan\/Instagram<\/p>\n

The \u201cSuits\u201d alum and Harry are living in a non-royal residence and are reportedly\u00a0looking for a home in the Cotswolds<\/a>. As for their kids, they enrolled in a prep school<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The duo notably quit their royal duties\u00a0<\/a>in 2020 and relocated from the UK to Montecito, California.<\/p>\n

Since then, they\u2019ve spoken out about the royal family<\/a> in their 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey and in Harry\u2019s \u201cSpare\u201d memoir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince William will reportedly keep a close eye on his estranged brother, Prince Harry, after the latter unexpectedly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14195,30691,2755,96,74062,59,983,120,223,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-765896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-celebrity-families","tag-celebrity-feuds","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-family-feuds","tag-gb","tag-prince-harry","tag-prince-william","tag-royal-family","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}