Keep calm and carry on? The royal family could bury the hatchet with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for the sake of King Charles III’s forthcoming coronation, according to royal expert Jonathan Sacerdoti.
12.01.2023 - 21:39 / usmagazine.com
Brotherly strife. Prince Harry’s memoir, Spare, seemingly proved that Meghan Markle wasn’t to blame for his rift with Prince William.
Royal historian Gareth Russell exclusively told Us Weekly that one of his colleagues pointed out how deep the issues between Harry, 38, and William, 40, go after reading the book, which dropped on Tuesday, January 10.
“She said, ‘I feel like in many ways this exonerates Megan from the accusation that she stirred up all this trouble between them,’” Russell said on Wednesday, January 11. “It’s very clear, if you read the book, that Prince Harry has been keeping score in his head for decades before he met the future Duchess of Sussex.”
The Do Let’s Have Another Drink! author recalled learning about the sibling dynamic while writing his novel on Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
“[Princess] Diana did think that the queen mother favored William,” Russell told Us. “She did think some of the elder generation showed a bit more favoritism towards William.”
The royal expert confessed that Harry’s memories of being considered the “spare” child were “not totally without foundation.” Some of the complaints, however, painted him in a negative light — including the excerpt in which he compared his childhood room size to his older brother.
“To be tracking score of that, you know, 20, 30 years later that bit didn’t work,” Russell said. “That’s probably some of the bits [in the book that] in Britain would’ve landed least sympathetically.”
Harry’s recollection of his childhood with William was just the tip of the iceberg when it came to his book bombshells. The Invictus Games founder claimed in his memoir that after his sibling called Meghan, 41, “rude” in 2019, the brothers got into a physical altercation.
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Keep calm and carry on? The royal family could bury the hatchet with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for the sake of King Charles III’s forthcoming coronation, according to royal expert Jonathan Sacerdoti.
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