During a 2019 argument at Nottingham Cottage, Harry and Meghan’s Kensington Palace home, he alleges William called Meghan “rude,” “difficult” and “abrasive” and claimed she “estranged half the staff.” . Harry, in turn, accused his brother of parroting the dominant media narrative about his wife.
William “seems offended,” writes Harry. “He seemed to think that I did not humbly obey him, that I had the impudence to deny him or to defy him to refute the knowledge that had come from his trusted helpers. Here was a script and I had the audacity not to follow it. He was in full heir mode and couldn’t understand why I wasn’t dutifully playing the role of substitute.”
His brother also showed up “red hot,” Harry continues, and they ended up yelling at each other. Harry describes giving William a glass of water, which his brother put down, after which he “called me another name and then came towards me. It all happened so quickly. So very quickly.”
Harry claims: “He grabbed my collar, broke my chain and threw me to the ground. I landed on the dog bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there dazed for a moment, then got up and told him to get out.”
William encouraged him to hit back and when he refused, William looked regretful and apologized, Spare continues. As he left, William turned and said, “You don’t have to tell Meg about this.”
“‘You mean you attacked me?'” Harry recalls as he said, to which William reportedly replied, “I didn’t attack you, Harold.”
Harry writes that the first phone call he made after that was with his therapist, and while he didn’t tell Meghan straight away, she did notice the cuts on his back and “was terribly sad.” Not long after, it was announced that the Cambridges and Sussexes would no longer share an office.
Kensington Palace declined to comment on Harry’s allegations.