In both the Netflix docuseries and his memoir Spare, Prince Harry addressed one of the worst moments of his life, the “colonialist and native” costume party in 2005 where he “dressed up” in a rented Nazi uniform. In the Netflix series, Harry called the costume one of the biggest mistakes of his life and he framed it as a moment where he had to choose to learn and grow and try to get to a more righteous and aware path. In Spare, Harry gave additional, never-before-heard background on choosing the Nazi uniform, which was that Prince William and then-Kate Middleton “howled with laughter” at the uniform and told him he should definitely wear it. Well, more than a month after Spare was released, apparently William is engorged with rage about Harry spilling those details. William is mad that… Harry has been holding onto that story for years? My dude, you are not making the point you think you’re making. From the Daily Beast:
The Nazi uniform story in Spare: The friend told The Daily Beast: “It just demonstrates how utterly f–ked the relationship is that Harry resorted to dragging up this thing that literally happened almost 20 years ago. William was completely gobsmacked by it.” The friend did not suggest the story, as told in Harry’s memoir, Spare, was untrue…However the friend said William was stunned by Harry deciding to tell the story, having apparently been “nurturing this grievance for almost two decades.”
It’s not Peg’s fault!! William’s office at Kensington Palace have made no comment on Harry’s book and said they did not wish to comment to The Daily Beast for this story. The friend who spoke to The Daily Beast said: “Whatever Harry wore to a fancy dress party could never possibly be William’s fault.” They added that William was stunned by “the realization that Harry has been nurturing this grievance for almost two decades.”
The Keens would never deign to read Spare: The friend said their understanding was that William and Kate had not read the book but said they would “of course” have been apprised of its contents by their advisers and would likely have read many media reports on it. “You can understand why William has his reservations about Harry attending King Charles’ coronation,” the friend said—referring to Harry’s older brother being the apparent sticking point in getting Harry and Meghan to the ceremony in early May.
Why the Nazi uniform story out of all of the Spare stories? Of course, attention will now turn as to why it is this particular story that has so got under William’s skin. There was no shortage of arguably much more damaging brickbats thrown at William in Spare, after all, including allegations that he physically assaulted Harry and that he and Kate acted dismissively towards him and Meghan on countless occasions. Asked if Harry recounting the incident had upset William more than any of the other accusations made in the book, including the aforementioned claim that William pushed him to the floor in a physical fight, the friend said, “There is plenty for William to not like in the book. But he found it particularly astonishing that Harry wanted to reopen this issue, and rather than to accept responsibility for it, to try and blame William and Catherine for it, when it was clearly no-one’s fault but his own.”
One of my takeaways from Spare and the various ways Harry described William was that William seems like a guy who smokes his own product, you know what I mean? William lives in his own sheltered little world, an echo chamber full of rage and sycophantic yes-men who regurgitate familiar talking points to him because that’s what he wants to hear. Like, I actually believe that William believes many of the lies coming from his own office, some of which he even started. My point is that I halfway believe that William is too lazy to sit down and read Spare, so the content of the book is being filtered to him by those Tory political operatives grooming him to be the king they need.
Anyway, Harry didn’t “blame” William and Kate for the Nazi uniform thing – what Harry has said and written is that he owned his choice for nearly two decades, and people should know that William and Kate thought the Nazi uniform was hysterically funny. It’s not “this is William and Kate’s fault,” it’s “they’re in it too.” Harry also treated the story with perspective, because (clearly) William has done a lot of sh-t to him over the years.
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BREAKING: Heir to Throne Does Not Know the Meaning of the Word ‘Memoir’
Lol! Exactly. “Bringing up stories from 20 years ago” is literally what you do in a memoir. 😆
Not sure why Willie should be “Gobsmacked” by Harry’s account… when there is home movie footage of QE2 as a little 8-year old princess, with her little sister Margaret, their Queen Mother and Uncle King Edward (before his abdication) all running around the gardens giving theheilsalute. The footage is online. I took screenshots of the film… shocked the RR has not moved to remove it.
Exactly, Neners. And you know what I think? I think William never expected Harry to own up to sensitive, if youthful, transgressions. I reckon William was waiting for an opportunity after Harry’s book release, to swoop in – by way of one of the famous Royal sources or a close chum – and release the story himself, in a tit-for-tat play. Harry took that opportunity away from him without even trying.
William should direct his rage at the media who are talking about a 20 year old story in a memoir from someone they claim is irrelevant.
They are surprised that PH still thinks about the uniform thing years later when the BM and W&K stans STILL bring it up constantly years later? PW needs to just be relieved that PH didn’t reveal any of his costume details and shut his mouth.
Yes. Harry is still protecting william. He didn’t mention the blackface thing. That would really hurt the future king.
Hopefully that’s in the other 400 pages, and WanK give themselves ulcers worrying about it.
Maybe H has photos of Willy with the blackface.
Hopefully he’ll make plenty of copies and hide them well as it’s always security for him and his family’s futures.
Let Andrew’s accuser wrote her book and leave it all till after the chubby.
Don’t release everything at once.
H was expected to keep quiet and they’re probably panicking at whatever else they’ve forgotten about.
@Equality EXACTLY. Those trolls post the Sun cover on the regular on SM, as soon as they feel the Royals are being accused of, cough, “unconscious bias”. Spectacularly disingenuous of the Daily Beast to pretend now that Harry is dredging this up out of the blue.
It is SO interesting that in all the years that have past we have never seen a picture of what Kate and William wore to the party. If it was so innocent, why no pics?
This repugnant Colonials/Native theme was popular among their set. There are photos of Kate in what looks like a white slip and a feather stuck in a headband out there. I need someone to sort out which of these themed parties is which.
Harry is to William what Diana was to Charles and he will now be forever in the shadows of someone he once thought was less important than him.
This happened to both father and son partially because they are, simply put, not good people. The contrast is more apparent this way. Although Harry and Diana had flaws, they are both, at heart, good people trying their best . We can all tell.
He will forever be in the shadows of someone he thought was less important than him… that is a concise truth right there Moderatelywealthy. Both he and Copy Kate are gobsmacked that they are being outshone by the “regulars.” And I agree Charles and William ended up overshadowed by people who were simply trying their best. And William hasn’t ever put that much effort into anything
When I read things like this and Kate hugging everyone, I picture a type of 2-year old tantrum “we’re the special ones, not them, us!” They honestly think they deserve the attention because of when they were born. No work required!
@nottheone
That comment made me think of this
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CodifnKABxU/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
LOL @Snuffles! I love that guy’s VoiceOver videos.
Assuming that Harry has decided to publish milder situations, that there are more serious situations that would incriminate them or show them in an even more terrible light.
Thats all I could think of when i read spare, William is always condescending to Harry and think that he’s the intellectual one out of the two. Just like how Charles was to Diana.
“ William lives in his own sheltered little world, an echo chamber full of rage and sycophantic yes-men who regurgitate familiar talking points to him because that’s what he wants to hear” W reminds me of Lord Farquad. That’s all I see now whenever I see him and it just too hilarious 😂 does anybody else get that vibe or is it just me?
Hmmmmm. A pathetic nothing of a man who desperately and grossly overcompensates for his shortcomings. I think you nailed it! 😂
I thought a memoir was about taking people on their road of …memories? Willie’s courtiers should read him the dictionary
They are both so handsome in that stadium pic. Meanwhile Peg is an idiot.
I know. I used to think Will was SO handsome and never looked at Harry. Sorry for my foolishness. Harry is the far better man. William is just…smacking gobs and incandescent with rage.
Harry was forced to take responsibility for his actions, but because their roles in Harry’s disgrace were never revealed publicly, William and Kate remain ignorant racists to this very day. Harry learned and grew from this experience.
This. The whole point was his realization that he was gleefully tossed under the bus and they skated away scot free – this was a moment of understanding for him.
So the briefings from Peggy against Prince Harry continue. Maybe he should listen to the audiobook (truthfully not sure if he has any reading skills at all) then he wouldn’t sound like such an idiot when he issues his “incandescent with rage and how dare Harry” briefings.
yeah I don’t think William and Catherine read books at all. they don’t even read their briefing notes before doing engagements. books to them are decorations.
this is not the brag they think it is.
I really don’t see how people aren’t discomforted by the apparent fact that Charles and William don’t read things for themselves and rely on others to filter the information for them. I was six when my parents explained primary sources and how I should question everyone including them. The idea that two people in power are perfectly okay with not reading information to form their own opinions but also perfectly ok with letting the world know this is mind boggling to me. They are flat out saying they are easily manipulated. Lord have mercy.
I agree completely. They think it makes them look cool and above it all. I think it’s a lie anyway. They didn’t read it all but they definitely at least namesearched themselves in the Kindle copy.
That struck me as well. How do they know that the contents of the book are being reported accurately and not taken out of context?
This.
Prime example from the outfall of Spare: the interview with Michael Booley, Harry’s flight instructor.
Plus all the lies by the rota 🐀🐀🐀, plus the Sad Little Man, the Moron, Liemily A., the liar Camilla T., “Maureen” Eden etc etc
💯 It’s not just William and Charles. The Queen was the same too. Having everything fed to her by her courtiers. Through their personal lense and all too easy to twist and manipulate to however they see fit. But I’d argue that William is the worst, because he refuses to even read the briefs put together by his courtiers to prepare for events. Charles at least does that and so did the Queen.
An excellent example in the book on his Harry is different is when they had the Sandringham summit and they were lying to him about the printer being broken, Harry took it upon himself to investigate. William would NEVER do that.
Agree completely! Too lazy to read anything for themselves, they end up with the equivalent of the old telephone game at kids’ parties, where intermediaries have filtered & interpreted the initial message until it’s completely distorted or inaccurate. But what else should we expect from Chuck, a guy who won’t squeeze out his own toothpaste?
Right, the idea that they are being told “what they need to know” about the book or Harry’s interviews or whatever is really problematic. this is the head of state and the future head of state and they just know whatever their staff thinks they should know?
This was very clear from Harry’s book though; he made it plain that when he talked privately to William and Charles that they totally bought the line of disinformation being peddled about him, regardless of what he was saying in person. This has to be at least partly a choice – they really don’t want any disturbance to their bubble in which Charles/William=good, Harry/Meghan=bad. And their staff must know that.
And, since information they get is largely filtered through their staff, what’s very concerning are the instances in Spare where courtiers (including Bee, in both cases) flat out lied. They lied to TQ about Harry having brought up a particular issue (forget the details) with Harry sitting right there. And Bee lied about his printer being broken during the Sandringham summit. There’s no reason to assume any of them would be more truthful to Charles/William than to TQ. IMO, chances are good that Charles at least know they’re willing to lie, and has likely done it at his behest, which begs the question, how can he know for sure in any given instance they’re not lying to him? A tangled web…
Its a very serious matter, because even tho, thankfully, neither chuckyDaTurd nor BullyWilly will ever directly imperil the people of the UK because they dont make laws, the machiavellian courtiers are getting those 2 idjits to do exactly what the machiavellian courtiers want, which is: a permanent division in the windsor family and hence, their eventual downfall.
You might wonder how the downfall of the monarchy helps the machiavellian courtiers. Well, consider the Fable of the Scorpion and the Frog.
What a petulant, condescending, mediocre dick William turned out to be 🙄
English aristocrats take pride in being willfully ignorant. Thinking is like work — it’s something for lessers to do. There was anti-Scottish sentiment about this for a while, and has been antisemitic sentiment about it for a very long time. Certain “lesser” races (and Scottish people were considered a separate race, still are by Little Englanders) were supposed to do the thinky parts. And of course though you needed them, you could not trust them either, because they were *smart*, yuck.
Not only did Harry NOT blame William, he actually debunked a persistent rumor that said Will wore blackface as a Zulu warrior and the photos had been suppressed in favor of Harry in the Nazi costume. Harry says Will was dressed as some kind of jungle cat in a leotard, which sounds dumb but inoffensive. Will should send Harry a thank you note for this one.
“Some kind of jungle cat”? He said his brother wore black tights and a leopard skin to a colonials and natives party – he was definitely dressed as a caricature of an African man wearing animal print, not an animal? Hilariously enough it was Ngozi Fulani’s extremely ordinary leopard print dress that had Gammons claiming that it was no wonder Lady Hussey thought she was from Africa because she was dressed in ‘traditional African clothes’!
I think Harry actually tried to drop William in it for the leopard skin but was defeated by the ‘pics or it didn’t happen’ mentality. Harry’s use of racial slurs is worst than that fancy dress outfit IMHO (since the point of such parties is to dress as something you are *not*) but the costume has got him into more trouble because there is a picture which makes it more memorable,
The theme was inherently offensive , there isn’t a way not to be insensitivity dressed to such a party, which is why the fuss over Harry’s outfit is such a roll your eyes moment for me. If I remember correctly Harry’s uniform only fits the theme because it is supposed to be some kind of African Division therefore its not just the Holocaust that he should have been reflecting on when he apologised but the many victims of German colonisation in East Africa. Of course he did not and does not because that would be too close to the bone for many Brits (most of whom I expect only pretended to be appalled by the picture, in my experience British people consider Nazi uniforms either erotic, or, like Kate and William, hilarious. Furthermore Harry was the most popular member of the family even having worn the costume meaning outrage about it now is almost entirely put on) given this country’s own ignoble history of colonisation in Africa…
“Anyway, Harry didn’t “blame” William and Kate for the Nazi uniform thing – what Harry has said and written is that he owned his choice for nearly two decades, and people should know that William and Kate thought the Nazi uniform was hysterically funny. It’s not “this is William and Kate’s fault,” it’s “they’re in it too.”
Yep, this. All of this.
More gaslighting from Kensington Palace. Harry didn’t blame them, as you said. He said they were laughing about it and encouraged him to wear it. Harry does accept blame, and understands how damaging it was. I was moved by how he responded to it at the time too, with those talks with that Rabbi.
What William really is ‘gobsmacked’ about is that he can’t use this as a stick to beat Harry with anymore.
The irony is I believe there is some truth here. I can believe that Will never has to be responsible for his awful behavior and he never imagined anyone would ever dare call him out. He especially never imagined his little brother of all people would dare stand up to him. He thinks Harry is a nobody and he thinks Meghan is an evil temptress (except she isn’t the slightest bit interested in tempting Will). He probably is genuinely gobsmacked. When I was 2 and used talcum powder to make it snow in our living room I was gobsmacked that I had to face consequences (at least I am told I was). These first few times one learns that there are consequences for behavior can be traumatic. Most of us get to learn these lessons and adapt to it before pre-school but hey good luck PEG
For some reason, my other comment didn’t post. To repeat – rather than considering him a nobody, Harry’s the only one who makes Will feel insecure, or less than, because he’s the only one at all comparable to him. It’s gotten worse as they’ve grown older, because now, Harry has significant accomplishments to his name, while Will wasted years doing nothing. All Will has going for him is his status as heir, and he’s realizing that’s not enough. Earthsh!t is one attempt to catch up. And, while everyone else has always kissed heir Will’s ass or overlooked his bad behavior, Harry’s the one willing to call him out and stand up to him. Will’s always handled his feelings of insecurity by trying to dominate Harry in one form or another, but now that Harry’s grown up and can’t be controlled, it makes Will nuts.
Wow, methinks he doth protest too much! How many times does this ‘friend’ say that it’s nobody’s fault but Harry’s own or there’s absolutely, positively, no way on earth any of this is W’s fault? None, do you hear me? None! Lol.
Also, doesn’t Peggington see how he’s confirming every single thing Harry has said by sending his minions to only complain and explain that the future king is incandescent, gobsmacked, filled with rage about Harry’s claims…yet never once denying that the story didn’t happen? Not one ‘friend’ or palace source has come out to say, that’s ridiculous, William loves his brother and would never assault him. Or of course William doesn’t think dressing up like a Nazi is funny. They all know that everything Harry has said is true (and likely has receipts) so the only response they can give is to say how angry Peggington is that his dirty/racist/violent laundry has been aired.
William should stop smacking gobs, shoving his brother, and being all-around violent.
Lol, “stop smacking gobs.” Yeah, that’s what’s interesting. Even the Daily Beast questions this “friend” on why William is angrier about this than the fact that Harry revealed William physically assaulted him. Or even that William and Kate were consistently dismissive towards Harry and Meghan. Maybe, as CT said in her super secret newsletter, William thinks the assault makes him look edgy so he doesn’t mind. And as the heir, he and his wife have the right to dismiss those beneath them. So gross.
PERFECT.
One wonder what the 2 princes learned at Eton?. Furthur, one would expect being older Kate and William would have advised Harry not to wear the deadly offensive Nazi uniform.
William is gobsmacked at this revelation because it showed poor judgement and lack of international diplomacy and awareness on the part of the future King.
Tbh looking at many of the men in public life who are products of an Eton education one has to wonder if the place should be put into special measures.
Eton is a place to train horrible Tory men and teach them that they’re inherently better than everyone else. It is not a place for an education — education would undo everything Eton stands for.
There’s an Agatha Christie book in which a formidable old lady asks Hastings if he has an education. He says he went to Eton. She says then he doesn’t. She’s right.
William does not want anyone reminded of the straight-line ties he and his family has to Nazis and Nazi saluting and Nazi sympathizing and just being Nazis themselves. That’s why acknowledging this particular piece of the past is so egregious to him. He prefers to live in Willyful ignorance and pretend reality is what he says it is, not what actually happened. He’s as bad as Trump.
THAT’SNOTOK, Spot on, let’s not forget that there are pictures of the young queen and her sister, being shown by their parents how to do a Nazi salute!!. So many “friends”,) for friends read paid flunkys!), talk for William, yes they do, because they are reading from the script that the odious little temper ridden toad has given them. Harry didn’t blame William for it,, but by christ there is plenty he could AND SHOULD name and shame William for. Come on Harry take the bloody gloves of. Tell people about the way William screamed at the cook at Balmoral and was shouted right back at from the cooks daughter. Even then Billy bully tried to get both of them in trouble for something HE had started. Tell people about the VERY expensive vase that William broke and tried to blame you for, until Ken stepped in and told your great grandmother that it was YOU that had broken it, she went from scolding Harry for being so careless, to “never mind William, it must have been an accident”. THIS is the way it has always been, Billy bullious always tries to twist the narrative to appear so saintly, when in fact he is the nastiest kind of person you could ever have the misfortune to know, let alone be related to.
Typo, it was WILLIAM who broke the vase, NOT Harry
I’d say the number of times Will has been accountable and apologized for anything in his life has been less than 5. He’s shocked Harry would bring up a time that he was in the wrong and talk about it again, because he would never admit he was wrong and definitely would never speak of a time he might’ve been mistaken.
Less than 5! Lol, I’m seriously trying to think of one time. It’s possible he has but I’m just struggling to think of an example.
Off the top of my head, the only time William was raked over the coals was for that helicopter stunt, years ago. Didn’t he land at/near Middleton Manor while he was in training? Something foolish like that.
That helicopter stunt didn’t really have serious consequences for him. He got some bad press that was all. He was not fired like any other most likely would have been. I don’t even think that he was required to apologize to the brass for this stunt.
Diana spanked him in front of cameras at least once. He lost the only person in his life who would enforce boundaries and discipline when he was 15.
More likely, this news outlet didn’t have anything to write about this am and decided to just make something up so they could have an excuse to write about Harry and try to stir up more outrage about a book that was released about, what, a month ago?
It’s been known for years that Will was with Harry when he picked out this costume. We had no clue Kate was there as well. Interesting that she laughed hysterically at this and she is involved with holocaust survivors…
Kate is the new revelation. That’s probably what Will is mad about.
They are weird. I don’t get the RF.
I’m listening to Spare right now and I am two-thirds of the way through the book. I do not want it to stop. Also, I keep thinking that Chaz and Rage should *listen* to it, several times, to really hear what Harry has to say, in his own voice.
The book’s heartbreaking, it’s riveting. They let this interesting person go? They are such losers this RF, really.
Also, I know that there are different dynamics and rivalries between siblings and I also know that this is Harry’s view of things. BUT, man, does Rage come across as a bad brother; and that’s despite Haz giving him excuse after excuse. And Camilla is the evil step mother. Period.
For me, the Nazi uniform story and the fallout from it marks the moment Harry chose to get his own head out of his own a** and participate in the real world. That is something William has never done or never had to do. One of the takeaways I got from Spare was how out of all of the people in his family, Harry gained the most life skills. I think of how much he had to go out of his way to get them and even worse, was DISCOURAGED from getting them. If the monarchy were to fall tomorrow, I don’t think most members of his family would make it. Charles might, but William wouldn’t (mind you, I think he’s have some protection due to Kate growing up with some amount of wealth). The only one of Charles’ siblings that would even stand a chance against the world is Anne. They all live in their privileged insulated bubbles, especially Charles and William. They don’t have the skills to cope outside of the bubble they live in. Given the state of the British monarchy and the rise in republican sentiment across the commonwealth and the UK, I’m not sure they’d survive a world without the monarchy.
William’s mad bc this was one of the biggest mistakes of Harry’s life and it was on the front pages and it has stayed with Harry for decades and William has always been able to escape it. And here is Harry saying, “william was a part of this.” He’s not blaming William, he’s just not willing to let William escape it anymore.
For me, part of the point of Harry recounting that, along with W&K’s reactions, was to describe how insular his world was, how privileged his bubble was, etc. People always say about this – how did he not KNOW this was so bad!?!? He lived in this incredibly privileged bubble where all of his friends apparently thought it was hilarious. He didnt know it was bad, William didn’t know it was bad, Kate didn’t know. They “howled” and thought it was hilarious.
That’s not Harry placing blame, that’s giving context.
Have you seen the new season of “YOU” on Netflix? It’s set in London, in superrich, aristocratic/adjacent, elitist, old school tie circles. It’s an absolute riot seeing our American stalker/sociopath get utterly freaked out by them all – their sheer soulless, empty, inhumanity is too much even for him.
I kept picturing WanK and the turnip toff Norfolk milieu as these people while watching…
Now I’m going to have to watch the new season🤣 of “You”. I was done with it after the last season it was getting to be to much but now I have to see that. Wonder what made them decide to take it there?
That part of the book also says to me that these boys were basically raising themselves. No way Harry walks out in that shirt if a parent or anyone in a parental role was looking out for him. His older brother didn’t stop him, Kate laughed and he went on to do it. And no one at the party called him out on it either. Nobody in the security detail said anything?
The story also shows William and Kate to be massive racists if they found the uniform funny and didn’t do anything to stop him from wearing it. William even attended the same party. (It is unclear if kate attended this party).
For all of the media myth of William being more mature and serious, this story shows he clearly wasn’t at age 22.
Has anyone ever seen the queen, Wm or Kate with a book? Do they read? Charles and Camilla are big readers, I’ll give them that, but to rely on your aides to read a book for you and tell you about it is beyond belief. Their library at Anmer and KP is full of color coordinated bound books on display that I’ll wager have never been opened or read. Like Wm and Kate, their purpose is only to be on display.
Charles has the reputation of being a big reader, but I’d never heard that Camilla did. Also though, what books? If someone says they’re really into history and then I learn they read and believe a bunch of ancient aliens books, I’m going to know their reading has not helped them at all, and that actually they’d do better to stop.
Charles is an idiot. He thinks homeopathy is good, he’s an eco-fascist, and he’s racist, for starters. Someone can also be a “big reader” and not understand anything they’re reading.
William should count himself extremely lucky the owner of the costume shop hasn’t come out and reiterated the facts. William picked out the costume, goaded Harry into it, and William demanded a ‘Zulu warrior’ costume. Harry is once again being too nice and glossing over what William did.
notasugarhere, I remember that there was an article and the owner of the shop said that Fails was there when Harry chose this one and never said a word about it. I found the article 2-3 years ago.
The article I read *at the time it happened*, with direct quotes from the person in the shop, said William picked out Harry’s costume, goaded him into wearing it. And that William wanted a ‘Zulu warrior’ costume. So much has been whitewashed about W&K’s past but I remember this one clearly. Not the version re-written or glossed over by the tabloids, but the original quotes from the costume shop.
I suspect it was the same article that I found but couldn’t remember all of the details. Fails is really a pos.
William is salty about all of this because the William/Harry relationship was the only thing that humanized him and made him seem like a *regular guy*. The real danger isn’t in the particular details of the nazi costume. Even the dog-bowl fight can eventually be explained away because, as their stans kept repeating, “brothers sometimes fight.” The problem is that exposing William as a cold bully eliminates one of the few positive pillars of his public persona. Same with Kate. That’s why the two of them needed Harry to stick around–their engagements with Harry were always so much better than without him. Take a gander back at their 2012 London Olympics photos and video–unless Harry is with them, W&K seem cold and old. I was re-watching City of God this weekend, and the W/H relationship reminds me so much of Little Dice and Benny’s dynamic.
Are we ever going to know what William actually wore to that party? Because we all know if it ever truly gets out, it won’t be good for William. I’ve seen blurry pics of him (or people claiming it’s William in the pictures) and it really looks like he’s dressed as an indigenous African person from what I remember. I think that’s why he’s so bothered by the story. He knows what he wore is equally problematic and while Harry didn’t choose to reveal what William wore (right? I can’t remember this now but I don’t think Harry revealed what Kate or William wore), he could have. Harry probably has pics somewhere of William at that party!
William is mad not because Harry is blaming him (he’s not), but because Harry is blowing holes in the persona that William was always the sensible one who would have NEVER thought something like a Nazi costume was a good idea. Now the world knows that not only did they think it was hilarious, they egged Harry on.
Until this particular article, I hadn’t given much thought of Will and Kate being in the room when Harry chose that awful Nazi costume and laughing about it. The ultimate responsibility fell on Harry and Harry only. Now because of his massive ego, William has decided to put it front and center again and make it about himself. This guy really does not know when to shut up and move along. He really can’t stand that the hints of jerk behavior, the incandescence and controlling rage we all see and hear about were confirmed by Harry in Spare. No one got as skewered as William in that book. Harry knows exactly what William did and wants him to know that he knows. Seriously William can eff all the way off.
The biggest problem all of the Royal family and British media has is that Williams human shield has gone. Now every mistake Billy boy makes will be out there, THAT is why we are seeing less and less of Billy bully, unless it’s an accompanied visit so that Khate can be the media focus, BUT, and it’s a very big but, how long will it be before the mask they BOTH wear slips, how long before we witness Khate shrugging Billy’s hand of her AGAIN, How long before William screams at another member of the public and this time the person can’t be bullied by the Palace into taking it down. How many times can they suppress these stories, because once the clowning and cams victory lap are out of the way, they will not have anything to fill their pages, and Harry and Megan don’t give a stuff what the British rags say. They have learnt to ignore them, unless of course they go to far AGAIN with their insults and lies towards them and their children. That is the only time they will fight back. Until then they will let the press beat themselves up
Hmm, interesting idea that William’s engagements are low bc Harry isn’t there as the shield. Or are we just noticing bc Harry isn’t around to fill in the space? William just seems directionless. Okay, he has earthshot, which if he reduces the overhead and stops making it about himself and celebrities, it might be okay over time…okay that’s a v big if. But other than that, what’s his focus? There were some articles about him focusing on homelessness last year, I think? As afar as I can tell, nothing more has happened with that.
William is constantly “engorged” and “incandescent” with rage over perceived issues most people would shrug off easily. He has no leadership qualities at all, except in title. Has his wife yet recommended he seek therapy and assist him in the same way she sat with her brother during his therapy sessions? When will the BRF realize their relationship with the British media is the main cause of their problems? If William is a true leader, he should reach out to his brother, but instead he acts like a spoiled 14 yrs. old, instead of a mature 40 yrs. old.
William cannot believe Harry raised this painful episode because William isn’t capable of self-reflection. He lives a completely unexamined life, convinced from birth that he can do no wrong.
Harry knows, as Faulkner wrote, that the past is never dead — it’s not even past.
William couldn’t begin to grasp that, because he’s been allowed to bury his past bad conduct. And when anyone tries to unearth it, Will screams about Harry. Willy cannot believe Harry no longer will play along in this sick game of protecting the heir at all costs.
One of these days when the circus-like furor over the Sussexes attending/not attending Upchuck’s effing coronation dies down I’d love it if Harry dropped some truth bombs about his comment “If anybody else knew what I know…”. He’s holding back a tsunami of information that would bring utter chaos to the House of Windsor. That’s what all this saber-rattling is about, they’re afraid and what do cowards do when they’re afraid? They lash out, lie, throw anyone under the bus they can to deflect attention from their crimes and misdemeanors.
This actually scares me a bit. I’m relieved that Harry let it be known publicly that the unreleased material exists and, by implication, other people
(ghostwriter/editor/publisher/Meghan) have access to it. I wonder if those people (not Meghan obviously) have signed NDA’s regarding that additional content. NDA’s that would be nullified were anything to unfortunately happen to the person who provided the content.
I know this sounds very paranoid & tinfoil tiara-ish but that’s what everyone said when ‘paranoid’ Diana spoke about ‘they’re planning a car accident for me’.
William should read the book, he’d realise that Harry’s not blaming him for the incident.
Someone call the waaambulance. The Wails playing victim, they never stop.
I think if you are going to brag about not reading Harry’s book, you don’t get the right to complain about it’s contents, even if it’s through your “friends”.
Because millions of people all over the world will have read it by now – I’m betting all of the toffs and people who work for the royals. Probably a good number of the people they meet at events. Maybe that’s why Keen is sticking to the early years, they’re about the only ones who won’t ask about Harry.
How weird would that be if just about everyone you interacted with has read unflattering things about you but you haven’t. It almost creates like a power imbalance, doesn’t it?
If I were William or his aide/friend, this is an area I would avoid, especially since Harry did his brother a solid and didn’t mention the fact that William was reported to be in blackface for this party. H says he was a “leopard”, which doesn’t even make sense with the theme. Who has a “natives and colonials” party anyways?
Maybe I’m remembering this all wrong but wasn’t the colonials & natives a different (ridiculously themed) party they had and the party with Harry in the infamous nazi costume had the theme of ‘bad taste’. I think it was supposed to be the former where Will went as a leopard and the latter where he, allegedly, went in blackface.
I suspect that Harry is doing here what he did with the virginity losing paragraph, (where he gave the wrong pub name & made the older woman reference to avoid potentially identifying the actual woman in question). He’s basically throwing his brother a bone but his brother is too obtuse & self-absorbed to see that and just stfu.
William’s 21st birthday party had the colonials and natives theme. There is even footage of white aristos driving into to KP wearing their tribal outfits.
This was another party, likely with a similar theme.
Willy , willy, willy . Dude you are the friend. The daily beast sucks at this .
I can’t believe but actually yes I can that willy only take away from this story is that Harry called him and Kate out . Like it doesn’t matter if it was 2 years or 20 years ago. The point Harry made is he regretted what he did and has been putting in the work to try his best nor to go around offending other people. Would it kill willy to try to learn from his mistakes? Oh wait I forgot the Heir doesn’t make mistakes. That’s for spares and peasants. William isn’t sad about his part in this . Willy can’t ever take accountability for anything he has ever done because he has never been held to account. He is mad Harry told people that he and Kate were involved. Willy really is a wank
To paraphrase William is angry that Harry “no longer wants to take it”.
If Harry drops everything and return, he will be welcomed in open arms. Even if it means that he self medicate himself to death, he will have ‘status’ outside of the firm but will relinquish the label of scapegoat thrust upon him from the age of fourteen.
Harry does not want to be William’s ‘supply’, never did, he wanted a big brother.
In terms of the shirt, talk about ‘flogging a dead horse’ , not a plausible excuse to be spiteful about the coronation. The attendance of the Sussexes nor the seating arrangements.
I have seen images from the party, no one comes off looking particularly decent.
Harry used the horrible shame to grow, to choose another path.
Good on him.
I hope the friend inform William that the need for supply only increases without proper treatment.
The trauma of losing their mother send them in differing paths, one can only hope that William will complete the grieving process, instead of being stuck at the anger stage.
What has since metastasized since being stuck at that stage??
How much is just his unpleasant personality or a disorder??
Whatever it is, it does not justify his loathing and envy towards Harry and Meghan….
(My apologies, if I strayed too far)..
Edit.
* he will resume the title of scapegoat
Not relinquish which he already did.
I don’t believe for second that Kath and normal Bill haven’t read Spare.. I think they’ve been hate reading it from the jump. I’m envisioning Kath listening to the audio book during her marathon 4 hour stairmaster sessions while grinding her teeth.
They also made the docu-series required viewing.
William would be stupid if he didn’t read the book for himself — and maybe he is. But if my sibling wrote a global best seller where I was mentioned, I’d be taking apart those paragraphs word by word. Of course it’s useful to get the perspective of others. But nobody could decode my sibling’s nuanced messaging better than I could.
Looking at these pictures I will admit it takes a lot of nerve to live like will and harry. They was in front of the press constantly. I assume it got to much for William so he started making harry his security blanket/fall guy. Then you have the rest of the lower royals throwing harry into every conversation. We see Camila removed her kid.
Is William stupid too. Of course harry was going to touch on the uniform. The surprise is he really talked about it and other things in full. He still protected William in the end.
Harry didn’t blame William and Kate for the uniform. He just said they approved of it in not so many words. And when the press published his photo, he turned to his brother William and said he was sympathetic. Where’s the blame there? William should read his brother’s book and not just rely on the intrigues his fawning and angry courtiers are telling him and the twisted lies the angry British press are sowing. Grow up, William!