Even in the most pro-royal books, the truth keeps slipping out as royalists try to reframe and excuse some truly terrible behavior. It keeps happening too. Christopher Andersen’s new book, Kate!, is full of stories about how Prince William was literally rage-barfing in the weeks before the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s 2021 Oprah interview. Andersen also includes stories about William’s loud tantrums and his enraged shouting, which we’ve heard about many times before. Robert Jobson has many stories about William rage-shrieking at his father, and even Dan Wootton claimed that William is “engulfed by catatonic rage” over Harry. Let’s hear what Kate!’s biographer has to say.
Prince William has such a fierce temper that he allegedly even “terrifies” dad King Charles.
“William is capable of great bellowing tantrums,” author Christopher Andersen told Page Six in a recent interview.
In his new book, “Kate! The Courage, Grace, and Power of the Woman Who Will be Queen,” Andersen notes that while the prince is “kind and considerate to a fault” with staff and strangers, and never raises his voice to his wife or children, he does raise his voice at his father.
“When he gets frustrated, he does resort to shouting” at the king, said a former Highgrove staffer who allegedly witnessed several shouting matches.
“William has a huge, booming voice,” the staffer continued. “Much louder than his father’s, so it’s not something you soon forget.”
At least one other member of the royal family has been on the receiving end of William’s temper — his brother, Prince Harry.
In his memoir, “Spare,” Harry recalled that he and his brother got into a heated argument over Harry’s wife, Meghan Markle. Harry claimed that William, who was “piping hot,” lunged at his younger brother, grabbing him by the collar and knocking him to the floor, causing him to land on a dog’s bowl, “which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me.”
Andersen also told us it’s no surprise William can be fiery, as King Charles “has a Vesuvius temper.”
“When he gets frustrated, he does resort to shouting” and yet he “never raises his voice to his wife or children.” Because men like William are notoriously never, ever “frustrated” by their wife and children, right? Because children especially are never frustrating? Magically, William is able to hold his temper and his tongue when it comes to his wife and children, yet whenever he’s “frustrated” by his brother or father, William either rage-screams at them or physically attacks them. Anyway, this alone is enough to bring down the monarchy and it’s wild that these royal biographers write about it openly.
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I think he and keen have shouting matches. I doubt they are under the same roof though
Agreed. And haven’t we heard that from other rota rats? That they have great, loud rows/arguments, are super competitive, and throw “pillows” at each other? This guy’s math isn’t mathing.
Yeah, I thought the line was “Kate gives as good as she gets.”
Suggesting screaming matches at the very least…
Jobson reported on this a few years back. It was throwing pillows but luckily not vases or some such nonsense.
Yeah his wife and kids never look stressed out like they live in a household with someone with a hair trigger temper. British media has made quite the Faustian deal for ” access” , about things that they clearly know regarding his temper and fidelity, and their honest thoughts about his work ethic.
They clearly don’t see it as a big deal though. I realized that when the response to him attacking Harry was, brothers fight. Siblings do fight, but at 37 years old if my brother would have driven to my house to attack me he’d be sitting in jail.
His wife looks like she’s going to shake apart if they spend consecutive days in public together, and there was a period where his kids looked just as stressed. They’re always writing about his incandescence, apoplectic rage, eye bleeding anger, describing how he drifts into rages and screams and yells and throws things, but we’re supposed to believe that he was never physically violent with his wisp of a wife or small kids. Okay.
Wife and kids look stressed and like they are walking on eggshells. Many reports of his volatility. Yet everything is fine, they are so in love, etc., etc.
Every official balcony/holiday outing, WanK’s kids look like they’re starring in a hostage video.
They look somewhat more relaxed when Bully isn’t with them. However, George looks perennially stressed in public no matter which parent he’s with.
The real question is, if he is kind to a fault to strangers, and doesn’t yell at his wife and kids who is he having these rage filled tantrums with?
Ägree, Kaiser – men who have rage issues seldom keep it from their wives and children. They’re usually the first targets, unfortunately. The whole point of a violent, explosive tempter is that it decimates everyone in the path of the rageful person once they go off. It’s not directed for any rational “reason” for a particular person, and held back solicitously for another (that’s what true sociopaths do and it’s a different thing)
And I’m curious that Andersen says William is “kind and considerate to a fault” with staff” when many other articles have discussed William blowing up at staff?
So if he doesn’t shout at the staff and his wife, he clearly has control so why shout at a sick elderly man. William sounds like a horrible person.
Usually if someone has a pattern of behaviour they don’t change unless they are forced to take responsibility for their actions. We know he has a terrible temper, he is on record screaming at his father and attacking his brother. If he is not abusing staff, he will need to take it out on someone. That is sadly going to be those close to him. It would explain a lot about how he is with Kate. As he gets older he is less likely to be able to change his ways.
Keen gets passive aggressive grabbing at scooter in public. He pulls away but he probably shouts at her when they are not out in public. They glare at each other at public appearances.
In the photos of him in a crowd, William is the only one behaving in such a way. The others have mild looks of emotion or whatever, but his face and body language dont seem to fit in with the people he is with and he can’t see that or regulate himself.
Yes, that was extremely clear in the Aston Villa photos the other day. Wills looks like he’s about to blow a gasket while the people around him are blandly smiling or clapping. It’s really very odd.
Scooter gets sarcastic with some strangers when he is in public. And put downs.
He was very unkind to the lady who made him cupcakes, as I recall.
If he wants to be a football hoolie he at least should get a proper scarf.
That seems like an abnormal amount of intensity for an activity one is watching and not participating in.
Also, why does he always look so angry when he’s cheering? And why are his lips always so dry?
Imagine the NDAs the staff must be under.
All that physical and verbal abuse would require it, Willy has been a walking red flag for a very long time now.. abuse survivors know the signs, I truly think he makes his home a living hell for anyone who has to be there.
I can’t say what happens with them for sure, but yelling and shouting seems likely.
So, while I think that he DOES yell at Kate and the children – look at how it is worded. He’s kind and considerate to a fault to STAFF and STRANGERS, and he never raises his voice to his wife or children. It’s not saying he’s kind and considerate to a fault to Kate and the kids.
You can do a lot of damage and be verbally abusive without raising your voice.
(But that said, I do think he yells at her since we’ve heard about their great shouting matches.)
There has been so much about William that has leaked out over the years that you really have to wonder how bad it actually is.
and I wonder what it was that Harry said to Meghan that night that was so horrible she walked out of the room and seemed willing to break up with him if he didn’t get help, when he said that he had heard men speak to women like that before. Which men? Charles seems like the obvious answer, but maybe not the only one.
The only example we really have is that video of William yelling at that man out walking near his property. It was uncomfortable. He didn’t know for sure if that man was doing anything other than walking, maybe he was but there didn’t seem to be proof, and the way William spoke was unpleasant to say the least. Bc when I think of William yelling or being angry, that is the example I think of and I would hate to be anywhere near it.
Kate was right there egging him on, you can hear her in the video.
I think the guy walking may have been a photographer who was there, supposedly, for another reason that had nothing to do with Will and family. Believe Will was yelling at him while also on the phone with security with yes, Kate heard very clearly egging Will on at the same time.
I can’t find the video. Can you post the link?
That specificity struck me as well, Becks1. Someone who acts kind and courteous to strangers may simply mean that they care about preserving appearances, it’s not necessarily a sign of personal virtue. It’s also unclear to me in the wording whether they are referring to William’s manner with staffers ( i.e. staff of the organizations he visits, which would fit better with “strangers”) or his own personal staffers.
All I will say is that of all of the (thankfully few) awful, abusive people that I have known, most of them seemed very polite… at first…and worked very hard to cultivate that image. It was only until you dug a little deeper, and the mask slipped a little, or something didn’t go as they thought it would, that you could see what they were truly like, and it was terrifying.
Anyway, I flat out don’t believe that his temper has “only” ever found an outlet against his father and brother, but even if that were true? What’s described here is truly alarming behaviour: Screaming at your elderly father (who is still being treated for cancer)? Assaulting your younger brother (for getting married to the love of his life)? Certainly not the temperament of a leader.
A lot of abusers are known to be charming with strangers and aquaintences. They build careful masks that don’t come down until they are with their victim. Part of the strategy to keep the victim from leaving. Unfortunately William has been an absolute boor in public with his insults, awkward sarcasm. Incandescent with rage over situations that don’t warrant rage at all, control issues. This is a man with profound anger issues that are barely under control. An entire media landscape has been created to cover them up. All of his media appearances are tightly controlled so that his explosive anger remains out of public.
But explosive anger is something that runs in the Windsor family. Even “mild-mannered” George the 5th (Elizabeth’s grandfather) was known to have an explosive temper with his kids, even contributing to George the 6th’s stuttering problem. I imagine Phillip was no mild-mannered guy, and we’ve seen and heard about Charles and Andrew’s temper. So it’s no surprise that William has a temper as well. Combine anger issues with jealousy, all while being surrounded by yes men and told how important you are, and you have a monster. The Waleses “ideal family image” looks as fragile to me as tissue paper Too many people are working too hard to make the illusion real.
@lanne yes! People who are abusive are often charming and friendly to outsiders, it prevents the victim from leaving like you said because no one will believe that that very nice man who helped you change your tire in the rain also beats his wife behind closed doors.
I think its clear that William has anger issues. But not everyone with anger issues is abusive – and we dont know that William is obviously, but all these stories seem to have an undercurrent of that in them.
We’ve also seen the video of Kate egging him on. She has her own massive set of anger issues, we’ve seen her physically lunging at Meghan in public. Kate’s no innocent here, but screams, throws tantrums, and ‘gives as good as she gets’.
These are two people who should never have been in a relationship.
If this is what they admit to, imagine what they’re hiding. Someone with a violent temper who flies into a rage at the slightest provocation (or no provocation at all) doesn’t suddenly aquire the ability to control themselves with immediate family. Usually immediate family gets the worst of it. And who is buying this endless stream of hagiography about various royals in the first place? Seems like we get a new one every week. I don’t believe there are enough royalists left in the British isles to support all this dumbf**kery.
I wondered how well these books sell. What they write is such self serving drivel. Do folks believe these books?
I will never forget Prince Harry‘s description of a phone call he had with William when Harry lived in Windsor. He could hear his brother shouting on top of his voice, even though there sound of a plane landing in Gatwick….that man is very angry. Meghan was pregnant at the time
My belief is he does more than loud bellowing and pillow throwing. I believe he loses all control and the fists fly! He shows those fists when he is somewhere he doesn’t want to be (there are pictures) so I believe fists fly during incandescent rages!!
Maybe Andersen needs to see that pic of Kate and William in the back of a car, where she’s wearing a sparkly silver dress, her eyes look watery and he is pointing his Incandescent Finger at her.
I wonder amongst many other reasons apart from PoW laziness and complete lack of interest in other people, is his schedule light to avoid him boiling over in public? He seems to have to be bribed via regular events that are like leisure activities to do more serious events. His events must be careful chosen and designed to keep him safe from protestors and calm. Too much stresses him out and he probably finds a lot of situations triggering so it is easier to keep him sweet by working as little as possible with loads of holidays for downtime. His temperament is unsuitable for a leadership role . He’s not an entrepreneur, manager or even reliable worker bee. He’s problematic with fawning PR and once he’s King he’s going to be cruelly exposed because he hasn’t got what it takes to consistently turn up and perform live in UK and abroad. Si
Good point! If he has to be in the same room with someone who disagrees with him or with a politician who isn’t afraid of him, his mask will start to fall over time.
Alongside the giant screaming mouth, his constantly-clenched fists are scary.
It’s truly scary and the first thing I always notice about him second is his clenched jaw..
The press knows everything that William has done but keep it quiet to protect him and the monarchy. I have no doubt that they knew that William had attacked Harry. They know that William and his wife are the real bullies not Meghan.
That picture with Kate in the sister wife dress is when she shrugged Egg’s hand off her shoulder, right? IMO it was very telling. There must have been a very specific reason why he would try to touch her in public (very unlike him) and she wouldn’t let him touch her (very unlike her). I don’t believe he can hold his temper around her and the kids or any of the staff. I also believe his barfing anxiety about the Oprah interview was because he had crossed the line to assault or battery with one or more person and he is terrified it would come out. Must be hell living in fear like that, and it probably makes him even more volatile.
No, I can’t remember what engagement those pictures are from. I dont think its the same dress but its a similar red dress (could be the same one). The shrug happened during a recorded event with Mary Berry that was televised which is what made it so weird – Kate knew the cameras were on her, she knew the segment was going to air on the BBC or iTV or whatever, and yet…shrug.
How about when he shakes off her touch, and she immediately goes in and grabs his ass in public against his will? Or when she glares daggers at him in public, Poland being one example?
He never raises his voice at his wife, you guys. He just throws pillows at her like a normal, loving husband.
A pillow thrown hard enough can put your head through dry wall, I would know… so I always found that excuse truly irritating.
I am so sorry you went through that. And you are right….healthy people don’t throw anything on the regular…it is a bad sign.
Yeah, I’m finding this article & comments a bit difficult. My dad was also nice to strangers & co-workers but at home, it was a different story.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: loony bin time. If this guy were not “heir” to the throne — fwiw — he’d be in prison, or homeless, or the locally notorious target of multiples ASBOs. He’s a posh yob.
I think we can all read between the lines. I find it hard to believe that the only people he gets angry with are Charles and Harry.
Princess Early Years should know that angry yelling in the home — no matter the target — counts as an adverse childhood experience. It changes a child’s brain chemistry.
Sadly, I believe the Wales kids have been around when their dad loses his temper and screams. And it’s had to have affected them.
In public they gravitate to William and get away from Kate.
They may feel safe with him in public, knowing he’s not going to yell with cameras around. Also, I think Kate yells, too.
They gravitate to him and away from her. Doesn’t mean it is because of cameras. As the kids grow older they show more disdain for Kate and her physical manipulation of them. They move away from her touch. That means something.
@Irisrose I agree with that take. I think the kids seem more relaxed in public when they’re just with William.
I don’t believe that William is not abusive with staff, and pretty well everyone he comes in contact with. He may not yell at his children now, but once they are closer to adulthood, I imagine they too will experience William’s violent temper. I once read that the late queen’s father, George VI had a bad temper, so it would seem it runs in the family. William and Charles both have violent tempers. Harry probably has a temper as well, which he obviously controls. He clearly does not have the blind rage of William, or probably his father as well. Charles is known to have pulled sinks out of a wall. In fact, Harry’s self-control in all things as far as we can see, is phenomenal. His rational self has the upper hand. He focusses his energy on doing good and loving his family. He works on himself to become a better person and be the best he can be.
I said the same below before reading your comment. My guess is the kids are safe for now. But I seriously doubt he doesn’t abuse his staff. Anyone in the home circle likely sees the rage cycles.
It runs in the family and may continue to do so. The main problem is that they get away with it. Because they are the BRF, no one calls them to account, no one tells them it’s unacceptable behaviour so it just gets worse.
Even when he’s “smiling” it often looks like an angry grimace in photos. It’s believable that he has a lot of anger and a real anger management issue.
There’s a weird vibe to this article, like it’s OK for William to be blowing up at Charles, like “Well, he’s only verbally abusive toward the King.”
It is weird, particularly when the king is 1) your own father, 2) elderly, 3) undergoing cancer treatment.
Look, unfortunately I have personal experience with this. I know a LOT of people who have had the same experience. My degree is in psychology and I have spent a lifetime studying Cluster B personality disorders….
Saying that, I am sadly aware of the fact that people with these issues often take them out on their partner and children FIRST. These are the type of people who are charming in public but can trigger easily. The easiest place for them to let out their anger is at home, where it is concealed and doesn’t affect their public image.
I hope those kids find a role model and a safe space. It could be he doesn’t touch them or yell at them now. Sometimes parents like this don’t start the abuse until the children are older and start to create their own identities outside of the parent….so it could be the kids are safe for now. I hope they are.
But for Kate? I am guessing she has seen him at his worst.
Where are these children supposed to find safety? With a mother who seems mentally unstable herself, attacked by her father and treated like a doormat, while she herself treats others the same way. Not only do the children witness this, but they are also forced to participate in this make-believe spectacle that has nothing to do with reality, watching these fake photos and their grandmother who tells their abused mother that she has to endure it because they must have a crown.
Unfortunately, these children are already paying the price.
See the video of Kate egging him on in public. You know, that woman who publicly lunged at Meghan? Who has led a multiyear lie campaign which led to Meghan’s suicidal ideation and miscarriage?
He’s seen her at her worst too.
I remember a photo that I cannot find online anymore. William was yelling at Kate who looked chastised. They were standing next to their helicopter on their Australia trip. Kate was wearing a white wrap dress with a blue pattern.
I also remember an excerpt from a recent story about Kate and William throwing pillows at each other during arguments.
I don’t think William is as calm around Kate as he claims.
I don’t think Kate is as calm around William as this Middleton-PR biography wants you to think.
You need to make sure you’re viewing those photos in order. They were under the moving blades of a helicopter. Was he yelling at her or simply trying to be heard over the sound of the blades?
That is also when she went commando under a lightweight dress without hem weights. To get off a helicopter, deliberately flashing everyone. During her love of flashing decade on the job. It may have been the same trip where she wore the same type of mini dress (yellow) and flashed the military receiving line.
Keen stans attacked the photographer and called her anti-feminist for publishing a photo of Keen deliberately flashing the press.
I remember that. Kate was wearing a DVF wrap dress in an ikat pattern & the wind blew her skirt up exposing her bare behind. I can’t remember if William was yelling at her before or after that happened; most outlets were more excited about posting photos of her bare butt than William shouting at his wife.
But waking up to an emailed question that Megan sent overnight is “literal bullying.” Spare me these people.
Pretty sure Ma Middleton have witnessed William like this. That’s how they got back into high society.
What a terrible shame that the royal family is well on their way to producing another set of severely damaged children! William’s behavior is a very good reason for closing down this “firm” permanently.
Most importantly, one of the causes of why all of this bad behavior has been allowed to persist over several generations is the way the king is allowed to control the finances of all of the members of the family, including the minor members, such as Edward and his wife, and the kids of Anne and Andrew. Anyone who “squeals” and tells the truth about what is happening can be punished by losing their income and the income and homes of their parents and anyone else close to them.
Talk about giving the foxes the keys to the hen house!