A former royal staffer has exposed how Prince William<\/a> and Prince Harry<\/a> really acted behind closed doors growing up and how their personalities differed from an early age, RadarOnline.com<\/em><\/a> can exclusively reveal.<\/p>\n Grant Harrold, 47, previously served as King Charles III<\/a>‘s butler from 2004 to 2011 and detailed what he witnessed working in the palace in his bombshell book, The Royal Butler<\/em>.<\/p>\n When Harrold began working for Charles, he was only a few years older than his two sons but noted William and Harry<\/a> were part of his motivation for taking on the job.<\/p>\n Harrold wrote, “One of the reasons I had wanted to work for Prince Charles was to be a help for his sons<\/a>, William and Harry, who were twenty-one and nineteen at the time, and it wasn\u2019t long before I met the young princess<\/a>,” referencing William’s then-girlfriend Kate Middleton<\/a>.<\/p>\n He went on to recall the first time he met Harry and William \u2013 and how wildly different their first impressions were.<\/p>\n Charles’ former butler<\/a> recalled: “In early May, the house became a hive of activity and Fred, the senior butler, told me Prince William, then in his fourth year studying geography at the University of St Andrews, had arrived. Offering to introduce us to get the formalities out of the way, Fred took me through to the staff room where William was just leaving.<\/p>\n “The next thing I noticed was his voice, so deep and authoritative<\/a>. We shook hands and I said, ‘Hi, I\u2019m Grant.’ ‘I’m William, pleased to meet you,’ he said. The prince added, ‘I hope you’ll enjoy it here.'”<\/p>\n Harrold revealed the future king<\/a> was also down to Earth as the new butler nervously asked him how he should address him, to which the prince replied with a smile, “William. My name’s William.”<\/p>\n He noted: “I was glad to clear that up but was also quite surprised. It felt a big deal, because not many people addressed him purely by his first name.”<\/p>\n While the Prince of Wales’ first encounter with Harrold was said to be “very friendly, polite and straight to the point,” Harry entered the butler’s life in a much more explosive fashion \u2013 literally.<\/p>\n Harrold wrote: “I was in the kitchen one day, having a conversation with the chef, when someone appeared at the door and, without warning, threw a water balloon at me.<\/p>\n “I did a double take. ‘OK,’ I thought, so this is happening\u2026 Prince Harry<\/a> has just arrived home and I’m getting a water balloon thrown at me.”<\/p>\nPrince William’s ‘Very Friendly’ and ‘Polite’ Introduction<\/h2>\n
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Prince Harry Launched Water Balloons at Dad’s New Butler<\/h2>\n
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