{"id":2399732,"date":"2026-05-03T03:02:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T03:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2399732"},"modified":"2026-05-03T03:02:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T03:02:26","slug":"prince-harry-would-have-missed-prince-william-during-key-life-change-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/prince-harry-would-have-missed-prince-william-during-key-life-change-royal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry &#8216;would have missed&#8217; Prince William during key life change | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>While Harry has always seemed to be a naturally paternal figure, the Duke of Sussex admitted that he felt a sense of \u201cstruggle\u201d after Archie was born. <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2194255\/prince-harry-prince-archie-lilibet\">Speaking at a Movember in Melbourne<\/a> earlier this month, Harry said: \u201cThe role (fatherhood) gives you purpose. Those days, weeks, after birth are a real struggle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cIf I was stressed, the moment I held Archie\u2026 he would notice it quicker than I could.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>While Harry was still a working royal at the time of Archie\u2019s birth, and still on talking terms with his older brother <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-william\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\">Prince William<\/a>, it is believed the brothers weren\u2019t as close at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>One former royal editor believes if they were still close at the time, and in the years since, then Harry may have felt \u201cless isolated\u201d when becoming a dad for the first time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Former royal editor Duncan Larcombe <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/new_magazine\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">told New magazine<\/a>: \u201cWhenever I spoke to William about Harry back in the day, he was very, very protective of him, so I\u2019m sure there will have been times in recent years when Harry missed the relationship with his brother.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cTheir royal statuses aside, he will have missed having that person he turned to for support and advice, and maybe felt less isolated, especially when it came to becoming a father himself and struggling with elements of that experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Larcombe continued: \u201cWilliam had young kids already when Archie was born and he experienced the same childhood as Harry, so he would have been the perfect person for him to talk to, but sadly that\u2019s not how it\u2019s played out.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>It is believed the brothers have not been on talking terms for some time, which is believed to be as a result of Harry\u2019s book Spare and the criticisms the duke has made about the Royal Family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>It is not known when the brothers last spoke to one another.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Harry has always seemed to be a naturally paternal figure, the Duke of Sussex admitted that he felt a sense of \u201cstruggle\u201d after Archie was born. Speaking at a Movember in Melbourne earlier this month, Harry said: \u201cThe role (fatherhood) gives you purpose. Those days, weeks, after birth are a real struggle. \u201cIf I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2399733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[22730,423699,381817,468496,213824],"class_list":["post-2399732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-prince-harry","tag-prince-harry-prince-archie","tag-prince-harry-prince-william","tag-prince-harry-william-relationship","tag-prince-harry-royal-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Prince-Harry-would-have-missed-Prince-William-during-key-life.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2399732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399734,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399732\/revisions\/2399734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2399733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}