A brand new joint biography of the Prince and Princess of Wales by Mirror royal editor Russell Myers provides explosive insight into the breakdown of Harry and William’s relationship
Prince Harry might have been willing to spill his perspective on his fall out with Prince William, but no one has heard the future King’s side of the story – until now. For years, Prince William and Prince Harry seemed totally inseparable, and the Duke of Sussex also seemed incredibly close to Princess Kate – but the last few years have seen relations between the brothers completely break down.
From his memoir Spare to his explosive sit-down with Oprah Winfrey in 2021, Harry has not been shy about his version of events, whilst the famously private Prince William has kept quiet. A new explosive royal biography penned by Mirror royal editor Russell Myers lifts the lid for the first time on the future King’s point of view, using exclusive access to palace insiders and sources close to the Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Catherine: The Intimate Inside Story is filled with new revelations about the brothers’ relationship.
The first joint biography about William and Kate to be published in more than a decade, the new title explores the breakdown in relations between King Charles’s sons in detail, including William’s “deep concern” for his younger brother.
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Though Harry and Meghan formally stepped back from royal life in 2020, relations were breaking down behind closed doors long before then, the new book confirms. Harry has previously claimed that it was around his 2018 wedding to Meghan that things first became strained, but the new title reveals that the future King struggles to pinpoint an exact moment when he realised his relationship with his brother had forever changed.
In 2019, Meghan and Harry undertook a royal tour to Southern Africa, and made a documentary with ITV’s Tom Bradby about the trip, in which Meghan admitted publicly she had been struggling, and Harry said he and his brother were on “different paths”.
Whilst Myers reveals that the breakdown did not include one major turning point from William’s perspective, this documentary made the future King and Queen just how much had changed between them and Harry. William felt Harry had become “paranoid” despite his attempts to help him.
“He [William] felt as though somewhere down the line, perhaps it is impossible to even say when, that he lost his brother,” a source close to the future King revealed to Myers. “He became paranoid, angry, obsessive and firmly rooted in the past. There’s no doubt, at that time at least, there was a lot of love and support available for Harry.”
It’s been widely reported, and Harry has admitted it himself, that William warned his younger brother to take things slow with Meghan, but Myers sheds new light on what Harry saw as a damaging moment in the brothers’ relationship. “It’s easy to forget now, given everything that has gone on,” the author quotes an insider as saying. “But William did find Meghan quite refreshing at first. He was genuinely happy for Harry and only wanted the best for him.”
The new biography, which is being serialised in the Mirror, provides exclusive, never-before-seen context to the major stories that have surrounded the Royal Family over the last few years – with the book filled with new revelations about Harry and Meghan’s shock royal exit. The new biography explores everything, from the controversies surrounding Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, and claims William and Kate were willing to go against the grain and push back on the late Queen and Charles’s position, trying to encourage them to take a stronger stance against the disgraced former duke.
Myers also examines the major personal challenges the Wales family has gone through, including Kate’s health issues, whilst living in an incredibly bright spotlight.
Russell Myers said: “The diagnoses of the Princess of Wales and the King within days of one another created the most unprecedented period in modern royal history. This book delves into the deeply personal experience of both Prince William and the princess, that has seen them face adversity and come out stronger, emboldening their vision of how they want to shape the monarchy in the future.”
William and Catherine: The Intimate Inside Story, published on 26 February by Ebury, Penguin Random House, is available to pre-order now.
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