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Princes William and Harry are having trouble preserving their once-close bond 25 years after the passing of their mother, Princess Diana. According to a recent tabloid claim, “Harry and Wills are scarcely on speaking terms following Megxit,” referring to Harry and his wife Meghan Markle’s intention to leave the United Kingdom and move to the United States in 2020. When William became 40, the older sibling joined the royal establishment and assumed additional responsibilities. At the same time, the younger “spare” prince, who is now 37, walked away from tradition in favor of a life in California.
Things were so different in the past. The lads made history by marching behind Diana’s casket after she passed away at 36 from injuries sustained in a car accident. Harry was only 12 and William was 15.
Both proceeded to Eton boarding school, with Harry pursuing military training and William attending college.
As William married his longtime fiancée Kate Middleton in 2011 and began a family, they seemed to have a close relationship.
According to royal historian and novelist Ed Owens, “This beautiful sort of brotherly relationship that they projected…did much to put the kingdom back on track.”
But since Harry married Meghan in 2018, things have gotten tense.
In a 2019 interview, he claimed that his brother and he were “on different paths.” After a year, Harry and Meghan made the surprising decision to relocate to the US.
In the couple’s ensuing dramatic Oprah Winfrey interview, which aired in March 2021, Meghan claimed Kate had made her cry in front of the public.
The most damning assertion, however, was that an anonymous royal had made assumptions about the future child of mixed-race Meghan.
Later, in response, William said to a reporter that the royals were “very much not” a racist family.
No communication
After the passing of their mother, both boys developed a lasting aversion to Britain’s tabloid press.
Harry compared Meghan’s treatment by reporters and photographers to Diana’s hounding in his statement to Winfrey that he left the UK to save “history repeating itself.”
However, despite their current estrangement, their shared contempt for most of the media hasn’t done much to bring them together.
In July 2021, they unveiled a statue to their mother outside Kensington Palace together, hardly speaking to one another.
They sat distant from one another at a church ceremony in June 2022, the month of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee.
William’s complaints regarding the Oprah interview were used by The Daily Telegraph to claim that “there has been no engagement whatsoever.”
