Back in the good old days when the Sussex family lived in California, Prince William would very loudly freak out whenever Prince Harry visited the UK. All Harry had to do was breathe in Britain’s general direction and, out of nowhere, sources were raging out about how William will never forgive Harry, how William has no interest in speaking to Harry and how William doesn’t even want to look at Harry! It’s really bizarre that we’re talking about a 44-year-old man, right? Well, ever since the Sussex Return, all of that has just… gone away, in a weird way. Now that Harry and Meghan are actually back on British soil, William has seemed unnerved and more secretive and lazy than usual, but otherwise, the rage-briefing has mostly dissipated. Now, the tabloids have repeatedly tried to convince the Sussexes that they need to “apologize” to William and Kate in particular, and I’m sure some of that is coming from Team Wales. Well, here’s some royal commentary about all of that:
Prince William has “learned” to live without Prince Harry as their bitter feud appears to have pushed the brothers past the point of no return.
“Harry has never believed he has anything to apologize for,” Christopher Andersen, author of “Kate!,” told Fox News Digital.
“William had never believed he had anything to apologize for. Reconciliation is not in the cards. It shouldn’t come as any surprise that William views Harry as having betrayed not only the royal family but the institution of the monarchy itself. Harry returning to the U.K. and picking up where he left off before Megxit just rubbed salt into an already festering wound.”
“These are two extraordinarily strong and stubborn men who have, sadly, learned over the past few years that they can live without each other,” Andersen said. “If the death of their grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, their father’s coronation and the cancer battles of both the king and the Princess of Wales didn’t bring them together, it’s very hard to imagine what would.”
British broadcaster Helena Chard told Fox News Digital that William is unlikely to forgive his brother. She noted that William once saw Harry as a supportive “wingman” as he prepared for his future role as king.
“Reportedly, Prince William finds it impossible to forgive his brother for leaving him to cope with the pressure of being future king on his own,” Chard said. “The sheer stress and upset caused to his family over the past few years is impossible to forgive.”
Harry has publicly said he would like to reconcile with his family. In May 2025, he told the BBC that he would “love reconciliation.” In October 2026, he told GQ that “the most important thing is to reconcile. That’s the key point.”
This is what we discussed around Harry’s GQ interview as well, and his discussion about wanting to reconcile with his family. Harry was speaking generally, but we know that he’s talking about his father and brother. I would argue that Harry probably feels like he and his father have mostly made peace, and they’re at least in regular communication with each other at some level. Does that mean Harry is specifically trying to reconcile with William? And to what end? William has made it clear that he’s not interested. This is so classic sad-sack William too: “Prince William finds it impossible to forgive his brother for leaving him to cope with the pressure of being future king on his own…” Again, we’re talking about a 44-year-old man thrashing around, screaming and crying that his younger brother refused to be his doormat/workhorse. Anyway, I don’t really understand what Harry is trying to achieve with his horrible brother, nor do I understand why William maintains his childish position. All I know is that the Sussexes’ move doesn’t seem to have improved this situation.
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Helping Scooter be king — isn’t that supposed to be the job of his wife and, eventually, children? He’s going to be whining about this on his deathbed at this rate…
I thought keen was the best est royal wife ever. Charles never demanded thar any of his siblings never marry so they could help him
William really needs to grow up. His children deserve to have a relationship with their Uncle, Aunt, and cousins.
EXACTLY!!! @Alicky. That is my *constant* thought. William sounds a lot like his father did when he was married to Diana, and his sister nicknamed him “Eeyore,” just a constant dirge of “poor me, pity me,” OMG. Get your act together. If you married someone who is incapable or unwilling to help you shoulder the burden that is the crown, just call it a day and split up. Harry’s departure has revealed a *lot* about the Wales marriage that I never suspected or knew. Because if they were bonded and happy together, we would *not* be hearing this every week.
Exactly right. When he was single and still the heir, The Netherlands’ Willem-Alexander felt the heavy burden of his future role. He said that when he met Maxima, it was if the burden had been lifted. If you look at photos of their joint appearances, W-A always looks delighted to be in M’s company. I don’t see joy in either of the Wales’ faces.
I do feel a little for William, because being king sounds a bit like living in a cage. A very fancy and comfortable cage, but still a cage. And it’s not like he sought out this job. However, he could do something about that by saying hey, the monarchy needs to wind down, I will give up some of my extreme wealth and privilege if I can have a more private life, etc. instead he wants his brother to be under his control and basically handle all the unpleasant parts of the job.
I don’t feel one bit sorry for William. He’s a vile slumlord and man-baby who never puts anyone else’s well-being in front of his own.
He can choke on his rage for all I care.
Maybe… but all that doesn’t stop you from being a decent human being – and to be frank, if he feels so trapped (every time i say that I hear tweety bird “twapped”) he can ALWAYS abdicate.
Exactly! We never heard about how much the Queen needed Margaret’s help nor how much Charles needed Anne’s or Edward’s. It seems to me to be the institutions way of saying “William will be a horrible, unpopular king, Harry is the only person to make William’s reign palatable”.
I remember the late Queen greeting Truss just two days before she died of cancer. It is one awful job for anyone. If William wasn’t so unpleasant. I would be sorry for him. I feel sorry for George.
Whenever we hear The Other Brother whinging about how Harry was supposed to “support him” (and then he went and got married!) I always want to know how they play that out. Was Harry supposed to just tool around in Nottingham Cottage, never marrying or having a family because then he couldn’t be on call for the firm? Partying and clubbing well into middle age, coping with substances, and never being able to find a partner? Travelling all around the world so that his brother and his family don’t ever have to leave England (except for their vacations, of course). They kept him short of money and told him he could never leave, that the only thing he was good for was being his brother’s assistant and punching bag. That’s not a life I would wish on anyone, let alone my own flesh and blood.
I appreciate, though, that this person is being honest, because the main issue that William cannot overcome is that, for whatever reason, Harry was supposed to be his wingman, he was supposed to “help and support him” as king, etc. I guess one could argue that Anne does help Charles by doing her 500 events a year – she’s getting the monarchy out there to the public – but that feels different than what was expected of Harry. Maybe because Charles also does 500 events a year? It feels like Harry’s role was to fill the gap between William’s laziness and public expectations, but not fill it SO much that people would prefer Harry to William (which is what happened anyway).
There has always felt like there was something personal in William’s anger – and that has been true long before Spare or Oprah – some personal sense of betrayal, like he has been told his whole life “its okay that you’re trapped because your brother is too.” And it turns out, his brother was not.
Harry has not abandoned his royal duties or Scooter. He fulfilled his only obligation … serving as spare until Scooter produced an heir. Mission accomplished and job done. There was no requirement that he follow the heir around with a clean up shovel the rest of his life.
By ‘helping’ Willy meant ‘do the job for me while I reap the glory of having the title.’ It’s an easy mistake to make.
Forget the glory, how about the billion pound duchy!
The unspoken issue the establishment don’t want to admit is that if William was in a solid marriage he would have his support from his wife and not need his brother around.
The Queen mentioned Philip as a support over the years and even though their marriage was not perfect, they had respect for each other. At least in public.
Part of William’s issue is that he dislikes Kate and does not respect her. And he makes that obvious in public almost every time. She’s the future consort so why is Harry needed anyway? We never heard other monarchs require their brother for help.
Therapy or divorce but something needs to happen because it will only get worse over time.
Sorry, it was never Harry’s duty to help William cope with the pressures of being king. Especially not with William raging out and physically pushing him to the ground bc Harry won’t do as he says and leave his wife.
If Harry had actually been getting paid for his work, I could see expecting him to support the monarchy as a whole. But Harry was mostly his brother’s punching bag.
So scooter is upset that harry left as his so called wingman to marry and have children. So harry could be with his controlling volatile brother. Scooter needs to talk to a counselor about his bad attitude.
Say what you will about Charles, but he never expected his brothers to never leave his side to help him being king. Anne took over the role of Princess Royale unprompted by him, despite having a family of her own. Edward doesn’t have anything else to make money after his short try to break away failed. Better not mention Andrew…. The British don’t allow their balcony royals a career outside the institution. Time to adjust to modern times. Indentured servitude and slavery was abolished.
All European kings manage their job without a wingman who has to give up his own life, why is William so special? And so weak? It isn’t Harry’s job to do William’s work and to prop him up. He has advisors, staff, a wife. Too bad that Kate is absolutely not capable of doing the job, other than the European Queens (with the exception of Mette Marit) who travel solo all around the world supporting worthy causes and projects, speaking at the UN, and are widely respected. While the younger siblings have careers and aren’t “working royals”.
Perhaps if William had been decent to Harry and Meghan they would have stayed and done most of the work for them. It wasn’t surprising when H & M decided that life over the water would be better.
“Prince William finds it impossible to forgive his brother for leaving him to cope with the pressure of being future king on his own…”
… or, in other words, finding it impossible to admit that he’s too lazy, too unqualified, too unintelligent to cope.
He doesn’t even try to attempt any kind of preparatory work — as we all know he flunked out of bespoke courses, doesn’t read his briefing notes, doesn’t read books and is a day drinker who spends his days rage-shrieking when he’s not trolling the Villa forums.
But I’m sure Bulliam the Incandescent doesn’t mind getting his grubby fingers on all of those millions of Duchy money *on his own*.
That’s really the basis of it all, isn’t it? All of William’s whining and complaining, raging and incandescence comes down to “You left me for her.”
And if William respects the monarchy so much, then why doesn’t he get off his ass and support his father, like he pledged to do at the coronation.
I don’t get the sense that Harry is desperate to reconcile with William. In fact, I’ve never had the sense they even liked other all that much, or that Harry needed William for anything.
I agree with you. Hasn’t Harry said that the close bond between brothers never existed? When he went to Eton, William told Harry to pretend he didn’t know him. I don’t think they’ve ever been close other than at royal events for publicity.
My take has always been that Harry is always going to publicly discuss peace and reconciliation. He’s not one to go out and say I hope brother never sets foot near me again. He’s not a child.
ITA Eurydice. I personally think Harry saying that he wants to reconcile with his family, implying that would include his brother, puts all the pressure on TOB. The press is reduced to saying Harry must apologize (which Harry has said multiple times that won’t happen) and isn’t able to put any more responsibility on Harry. He knows William will never reconcile and is perfectly fine with it.
I agree with you both. Just like we’ve talked on the site about messaging that would make BP and KP sound magnanimous instead of like whiny children re:H+M, how is it so hard to believe that Harry would take the reconciliation route? It certainly beats the alternative, and it reflects a certain leadership and reflection that “I will never, ever,ever forgive him” lacks.
Me neither.
But since the Sussexes announced they were moving to the UK, it’s become the new normal to believe the tabloids deranged storylines about what Harry thinks or wants.
I thought the spin was that scooter was supported by keen and the middletons and Carole was of great support.
There were too many articles comparing Harry to the Duke of Windsor in terms of the royal family “keeping” Harry out of the UK. The circumstances, of course, were never comparable. And Harry is showing that he can return to the UK anytime he wants with no permission from anyone. When Harry is offering to reconcile with his family, he is showing that he is the bigger man, but–make no mistake, with no financial ties and no security ties to manipulate him–reconciliation includes his terms of an apology for how his family is/was treated. Yes, we know, the raging man-child will never apologize to anyone–just look at the scars on his wife’s face.
THe Duke of Windsor was allowed to travel to the UK and had security. He returned to visit his mother and his sister. He never really was kept out.
“And to what end?”
My guess is Harry doesn’t want his kids to inherit the active institutional hatred and to be frank he doesn’t want the Wales kids to inherit it either. I do not believe he wants to be a working royal as he is very free to pursue his interests both financial and humanitarian. I do believe he wants his status as a Prince to be acknowledged because that helps him achieve his goals, opens doors for him. I am no monarchist but I am not a fool to believe that Harry would become a revolutionary leader to abolish the monarchy. He would like it to be better, fairer, more honest and responsible. In today’s current world order, being a prince is an advantage and privilege and I think he is trying to use this privilege for good, sort of as an atonement for being born into royalty.
Scooter suffers from a very real imposter syndrome. He is angry at his own incompetence and tries to compensate that with his anger at Harry.
Exactly. That’s the thing that I think that a lot of people don’t get. As someone who has been in a familial situation where two members aren’t speaking but are at Family events, it is exhausting. It’s tense, it’s uncomfortable, it’s frustrating, and no one ends up enjoying themselves. And, as you mentioned it’s a horrible example to the next generation, and you worry that the family fracture will be generational and permanent.
I’ve never gotten the vibe that Harry is a moron, because he may make choices that I wouldn’t make for my life. It’s his personal life and he’s privy to more information, and the blowback is on him and his immediate family not on me at all. I think he sees his brother very clearly and knows that any sort of return would put him right back where he was, but with much higher stakes because he has a family, and his brother is petty and petulant. He knows he would be punished for having the audacity to be honest and to leave. Not wanting to work for your brother, and not wanting to ever see them or your nieces or nephews or extended family again are not the same thing.
“Harry doesn’t want his kids to inherit the active institutional hatred”
That’s such a good way of putting it. And yeah, “reconciling” doesn’t mean everyone just goes back to how things used to be. It’s establishing a new relationship based on respect, and all parties would have to want that for it to work.
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FIrst of all, with everything going on at the moment, again, this is the only thing he can think of to brief about. His brother is off making speeches on the Euro stage, and he once again pipes in with “wwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh”.
He can’t do the job by himself – I believe that is the only way to hear this – but he has no problem hoarding all the spoils that come with.
What a weak, small manchild.
It’s clear that Harry was expected by the press and Palace to be shoulder the burden of King for William. Harry choosing to step back is the source of betrayal for William. He thought he could treat Harry any which way he wished and Harry would accept it. Another source of betrayal was suing the British press. The Palace had an agreement that they wouldn’t take the press and Harry broke that agreement. And lastly, having the Royal Family accused of racism was another act of betrayal. These are the things that William wants Harry to apologize for and unfortunately for him Harry’s not going to apologize for them. Heck he’s appealed the decision against the lawsuit against the DM.
William should not have pushed away the woman that Harry loves. It is not Meghan’s fault that she was good at charity work and enjoyed it, not her fault that she was an excellent public speaker or ageing better than her sister in law either. Such a shame, she would have been just what the family needed, they were short sighted.
Good grief Willy is a pathetic human being, with so much going on in the world today there is Willy still stuck in his hate for his brother getting married and having children.. grow up already Willy.
Does William’s supporters believe this makes him look good?
I have always wanted a journalist to follow-up and ask Harry to explain or define what “reconciliation” means to him and what it looks like in practice. I just recoil when he utters it because I know Will lives to rebuke Harry and state ad nauseam how he will never forgive him.
I do, too.
Harry already told us that reconciliation only happens with accountability and an apology. Him wanting that isn’t new and it isn’t an unusual expectation for someone who has actively done the work to improve his mental health. He gave this interview while he was talking about grief and about moving forward. It’s difficult to move forward if you still have something or someone weighing you down, but it is still possible. Him admitting to wanting reconciliation is taking a huge weight off of his shoulders because he’s able to work towards a better future without feeling as if he has regrets or something he failed to do. Part of reconciliation is being willing to move forward, Harry has already been there. William is still stuck in this childish mindset that won’t allow him to move forward because he’s about wanting to control his brother and not about realizing his brother is a better man for doing the work to address his inner turmoil and pain. William needs to seek help.
@Kaiser or anyone
What happened to all these “secret weapons” that the institution didn’t need Harry and/or Meghan? What about Will’s plans for his future that English and Nikkah talked about?
I thought their supposed monarchy/institution was doing great without the Sussexes. And has plenty of secret weapons ready to step up for Charles and Will.
“William had never believed he had anything to apologize for.”
He physically assaulted Harry, but sure, William, go on being you. What a great head of the Church of England you’ll be!
Quelle surprise that a system that insists its heirs are the most special people ever would produce a petulant rage monster like William!
Why do i get the feeling of the “Will and Kate cannot do it all themselves” are about to return?
But they’re not even doing a fraction of it all themselves.
UK tax payer asking if it’s too much trouble for heir and wife to you know, actually work regularly with enthusiasm because they are PAID alot so , maybe they could show up more? No one is asking then to do night duties in A +E or serve on the front line and maybe die or loose a limb for their country? They show up and receive flowers and respectful attention and a regular standing ovations at Wimbledon. I am not being picky but they do enjoy all the freebies without doing too much at all. They could do more and still enjoy holidays and bring up their kids who are mainly away at boarding school anyway these days. Just saying!
The worst thing about this, for me, is that Harry wrote that William would tell him he needed to accept that he might never get married or have children. Meaning that William was actively sabotaging Harry in hopes that he would stay single and “wedded” to William.
I can’t get over how the title of his book (Kate!) is more interesting than his subject matter 😂. He needed to add an exclamation point to her name to make her seem more interesting 😂.
It needs to be mentioned that they always limit all that has happened in the past ten years to just what the others have experienced and that being what needs to be apologized for. Never mentioning the losses and struggles that the Sussex family have had to deal with in the past ten years, some of it at the hands of the royal family and their agreement with the media to tear down some royals to uplift others. There is no mention about how the Sussexes were in an institution that was silent as the media and royal supporters made racist comments and threats against them but worst against their son with no pushback at all from their family. They went through the very real pain of a pregnant Meghan feeling so attacked in a new country and family that she considered taking her own life. A pregnant woman who we now know was dealing with so much more without any compassion or support from this family that has always made a point of supporting the white pregnant women in their family. They lost a child through a miscarriage and carried that pain while being attacked and stalked by an intrusive and relentless media. Yet with all of that loss and pain never once did the other royals once consider reaching out to them to support them. To me the more gut wrenching things about the Oprah interview was that Meghan considered suicide and that they had miscarried a child but it was the text from William the next day that showed me how cruel and vindictive he is that he didn’t show compassion to a brother who struggled with the fear that his pregnant wife was once considering suicide and that they lost a child. Two pains that are unimaginable and would make most decent people show compassion. Because in reality, nothing they said in the Oprah interview justified the coldness that William has shown and expressed ever since.
Obsession.
My husband always refers to this as ‘main character syndrome’, and he’s not wrong.
Prince Sleep It Off is fundamentally incapable. Apparently everyone, including William, knows and knew for decades that he isn’t capable. But the clown show must go on and Harry was supposed to be the shadow king while William played dress-up.
Now Pegs has to be king alone and his inadequacies and impotence will be obvious to everyone. That’s what terrifies and enrages him. That’s the Great Betrayal – Harry’s leaving exposes William as a mid-wit, unintelligent, miserable, petty failure. He is going to be declared the worst British king of recent times. History will not be kind.
I love that for him.😀
Now everyone can see who the dim one really is! The Queen sent Prince Harry on many diplomatic visits and thus, he made many important contacts.Scooter was either too drunk or to lazy to go. She knew long ago that Scooter and KKKhate couldn’t cut it and left it to Chuck to fix. We see how well that is working out.
Wow, there are such deep issues here for William. Not that I feel sorry for him. A real man would look at the symptoms, identify the problem, and work to fix it (mental health help). William chooses to stick with HIS problem, which harms not just him, but his brother and his brother’s family. The Sussexes are endangered, hated targets BECAUSE William will feed the tabloids trash about Harry, and the tabloids will inflame hatred and revenge fantasies of the British population (hell, worldwide population). So William’s “problem” has created a whole shit storm for his brother, sister-in-law, nephew and niece. That is NOT okay. And I wish Cate Blanchett would stop sucking up to Willnot. Isn’t she Australian? What does she need him for? What?