Prince William and Harry at Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral (Photo by Karwai Tang/WireImage)
Summary of the news:
In an interview with Good Morning America, Harry opened up about his relationship with his brother
According to him, Diana, the mother of the princes, would be saddened by the fighting
He claims that there has always been competition between the two.
He really speaks! Prince Harry gave an interview to American TV show Good Morning America to promote his memoir Spare. Speaking to presenter Michael Strahan, Queen Elizabeth II’s grandson opened up about his troubles with his brother Prince William. According to Harry, the disagreements have been going on for many years, even before the Duke’s marriage to actress Meghan Markle.
Strahan asks Harry what he thinks Princess Diana, the princes’ mother, would think of their current relationship. Meghan Markle’s husband claims that the noble would probably be very sad about the situation. “I think she would take a longerterm view of it, to know that there are some things that we have to go through to heal a relationship,” he said. Also, Harry remarked that he had felt his mother’s presence more in the last two years than he had in the last thirty.
Harry still talks about the royal family and says he believes there is no way to be at peace with the family unless the truth comes out. In his new book, the prince talks about his royal years, the trauma of losing his mother and becoming a father.
William and Kate’s wedding
Those weren’t the only statements Harry made in the interview with the American show. He surprised the presenter by revealing that he was not the best man at William and Kate Middleton’s wedding in 2011. According to him, this was the most blatant lie that the royal family had invented in order not to spark speculation and fights between the two.
“Willy didn’t want me to give a best man speech. […] I was forced to subscribe to the blatant lie that I was the best man,” he wrote in his autobiography. In fact, William’s actual groomsmen were friends James Meade and Thomas Van Straubenzee.
In the “Good Morning America” interview, Harry says that William is his beloved brother, but also his “nemesis”. When asked by the presenter what that would mean, the Duke explained that there was always a rivalry between the two.