{"id":2408675,"date":"2026-05-09T04:43:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2408675"},"modified":"2026-05-09T04:43:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:43:18","slug":"prince-harrys-brutal-take-on-the-middleton-country-bumpkin-life-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/prince-harrys-brutal-take-on-the-middleton-country-bumpkin-life-royal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry’s brutal take on the Middleton ‘country bumpkin’ life | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is believed that while the brothers had been close, Prince William<\/a> began spending more and more time with his wife Princess Catherine\u2019s family, especially once the couple had children, which reportedly was not something Harry was too happy about<\/a>. It is believed this is because Harry was spending less and less time with his brother, and therefore felt \u201cdisplaced\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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These are the claims put forward by royal author Tina Brown in her book The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor, the Truth and the Turmoil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Brown, who was reportedly given this insight by a former aide, wrote: \u201cHarry felt displaced by their bougie family unit, and couldn\u2019t understand his brother\u2019s obsession with his Middleton in-laws, whose Bucklebury world bored Harry to tears.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe [Waleses] had become a tight unit, and William a full-on Windsor country bumpkin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“On weekends when he wasn\u2019t chez Middleton, he was tramping the grounds of Anmer Hall, the red-brick Georgian mansion on the Sandringham Estate that the Queen gave the couple as a wedding present, wearing a flat cap and tweed jacket like his \u2018turnip toff\u2019 Norfolk farmer friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Brown wrote: \u201cFor his part, William felt that Harry\u2019s unabated Jack the Lad behaviour was getting tiresome.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“He was less amused than the British public by either the strip billiards debacle in Las Vegas or Harry\u2019s ceaseless boozy nightclub forays with his rowdy friends.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cHis younger brother\u2019s recklessness exasperated him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Harry and William are no longer on talking terms anymore<\/a>, and haven\u2019t been for some time. Their relationship began to display evident cracks after Harry married Meghan in 2018, and quit royal life in 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is believed that while the brothers had been close, Prince William began spending more and more time with his wife Princess Catherine\u2019s family, especially once the couple had children, which reportedly was not something Harry was too happy about. It is believed this is because Harry was spending less and less time with his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2408676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[22730,381817,470905,470904],"class_list":["post-2408675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-prince-harry","tag-prince-harry-prince-william","tag-prince-harry-william-middleton-family","tag-prince-harry-william-princess-catherine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Prince-Harrys-brutal-take-on-the-Middleton-country-bumpkin-life.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408675","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=2408675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408677,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408675\/revisions\/2408677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2408676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}