{"id":2283925,"date":"2026-02-16T11:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2283925"},"modified":"2026-02-16T11:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:20:17","slug":"prince-williams-grief-over-harrys-paranoid-shift-ive-lost-my-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/prince-williams-grief-over-harrys-paranoid-shift-ive-lost-my-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William&#8217;s grief over Harry&#8217;s &#8216;paranoid&#8217; shift &#8211; &#8216;I&#8217;ve lost my brother&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<h2 class=\"LeadText_lead-text__wd_PA __className_e3eb14\" data-testid=\"leadtext\">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&#8217;s relationship<\/h2>\n<div class=\"Byline_byline-container__K_Owl\" data-testid=\"byline\"><span class=\"Byline_byline-content-wrapper__Imque\" data-testid=\"byline-content\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"Byline_author-badge-date-wrapper__Q7jj1\">\n<p><span class=\"\" data-testid=\"byline-publishedDate\">11:00, 16 Feb 2026<\/span><span class=\"ArticleTimestamp_updated-date__7qD4Q ArticleTimestamp_updated-date-with-published__iFKpF\" data-testid=\"byline-updatedDate\">Updated 11:01, 16 Feb 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"commercial-video-box\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"primis\" data-tmdatatrack-index=\"1\" data-tmdatatrack-id=\"primis\" class=\"sc-9299d609-0 hKevtu\">\n<div class=\"sc-a0234a37-0 eSsVaR\">\n<section>\n<div data-testid=\"primis-player-lead\" class=\"PrimisPlayer_container-lead__ZyeTq\"><span class=\"PrimisPlayer_headline__EYzoH\">Princess of Wales felt Harry walking away from royal life was &#8216;inevitable&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">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&#8217;s side of the story &#8211; until now. For years, Prince William and <a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/prince-harry\" rel=\"follow\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Prince Harry<\/a> seemed totally inseparable, and the <a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/prince-harry\" rel=\"follow\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Duke of Sussex<\/a> also seemed incredibly close to <a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/kate-middleton\" rel=\"follow\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Princess Kate<\/a> &#8211; but the last few years have seen relations between the brothers completely break down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">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 <a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/prince-william\" rel=\"follow\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Prince William<\/a> has kept quiet. A new explosive royal biography penned by <a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\" rel=\"follow\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Mirror<\/a> royal editor Russell Myers lifts the lid for the first time on the future King&#8217;s point of view, using exclusive access to palace insiders and sources close to the Prince and <a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/Kate-middleton\" rel=\"follow\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Princess of Wales<\/a>, <em>William and Catherine: The Intimate Inside Story<\/em> <!-- -->is filled with new revelations about the brothers&#8217; relationship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The first joint biography about William and Kate to be published in more than a decade, the new title explores the <a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/royals\/prince-harry-forcing-king-choose-36556503\" rel=\"follow\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">breakdown in relations between King Charles&#8217;s sons<\/a> in detail, including William&#8217;s &#8220;deep concern&#8221; for his younger brother.<\/p>\n<p><span data-testid=\"readmore\" class=\"ReadMore_readmore-prefix__xS44r __className_d165d5\">READ MORE<!-- -->: <span class=\"ReadMore_readmore-link__eF9pN\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" data-tmdatatrack=\"read-more\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"36706013\" data-tmdatatrack-source=\"editorial\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/royals\/pippa-middletons-hidden-support-role-36706013\" tabindex=\"0\">Pippa Middleton\u2019s hidden support role &#8211; from Kate&#8217;s cancer statement to entertaining kids<\/a><\/span><\/span><span data-testid=\"readmore\" class=\"ReadMore_readmore-prefix__xS44r __className_d165d5\">READ MORE<!-- -->: <span class=\"ReadMore_readmore-link__eF9pN\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" data-tmdatatrack=\"read-more\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"36706556\" data-tmdatatrack-source=\"editorial\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/royals\/kate-middleton-embraces-shinrin-yoku-36706556\" tabindex=\"0\">Kate Middleton embraces Shinrin-yoku as she tries alternative healing<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"image-group\"><button class=\"SlideViewerButton_slide-viewer-button__BDJoG\" aria-label=\"Open image viewer\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-controls=\"image-lightbox\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-embed__0T8WX false\" data-testid=\"imageembed-36701499\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"36701499\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"image\">\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-container__2AIQm\">\n<figure class=\"Figure_figure__Uce4f\" style=\"--figure-aspect-ratio:1.5\"><\/figure>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"ImageCaption_caption__j7HRu\" data-testid=\"image-caption\">\n<p aria-label=\"William and Catherine: The Intimate Inside Story is available to pre-order now\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">William and Catherine: The Intimate Inside Story is available to pre-order now<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/div>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">In 2019, Meghan and Harry undertook a royal tour to Southern Africa, and made a documentary with ITV&#8217;s Tom Bradby about the trip, in which Meghan admitted publicly she had been struggling, and Harry said he and his brother were on &#8220;different paths&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Whilst Myers reveals that the breakdown did not include one major turning point from William&#8217;s perspective, this documentary made the future King and Queen just how much had changed between them and Harry. William felt Harry had become &#8220;paranoid&#8221; despite his attempts to help him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;He [William] felt as though somewhere down the line, perhaps it is impossible to even say when, that he lost his brother,&#8221; a source close to the future King revealed to Myers. &#8220;He became paranoid, angry, obsessive and firmly rooted in the past. There&#8217;s no doubt, at that time at least, there was a lot of love and support available for Harry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">It&#8217;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&#8217; relationship. &#8220;It&#8217;s easy to forget now, given everything that has gone on,&#8221; the author quotes an insider as saying. &#8220;But William did find Meghan quite refreshing at first. He was genuinely happy for Harry and only wanted the best for him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The new biography, which is being serialised in the Mirror, provides exclusive, never-before-seen context to the major stories that have surrounded the <a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/royals\/\" rel=\"follow\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Royal Family<\/a> over the last few years &#8211; with the book filled with new revelations about Harry and Meghan&#8217;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&#8217;s position, trying to encourage them to take a stronger stance against the disgraced former duke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Myers also examines the major personal challenges the Wales family has gone through, including Kate&#8217;s health issues, whilst living in an incredibly bright spotlight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Russell Myers said: &#8220;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 <a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/prince-william\" rel=\"follow\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Prince William<\/a> 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">William and Catherine: The Intimate Inside Story, published on 26 February by Ebury, Penguin Random House, is <a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/WilliamCatherine\" rel=\"nofollow\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">available to pre-order now<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<aside class=\"Factbox_factbox-container__hSMOa\" id=\"factbox\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"Entering Factbox content\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"33887216\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"factbox\" data-testid=\"factbox\">\n<h3 class=\"HeadingThree_heading-three__PBHLs Factbox_heading-three__NXU52 __className_34e2ce\">Get the inside scoop on the monarchy with Mirror Royal<\/h3>\n<div class=\"Factbox_content__xdMV8\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">WHATSAPP GROUP: <\/strong>Be first to get the biggest royal bombshells and exclusives to your phone by joining our <a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/crnch.it\/tDbwIMkd\" rel=\"nofollow\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Royal WhatsApp here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. 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