William's telling signal to 'excluded' Harry suggests feud could heal - expert
Their rift seems to be deeper than ever with relations between the pair being described as being "rock bottom".
But a telling signal offered by Prince William to an "excluded" Prince Harry suggested there may be a flicker of hope they will one day bury the hatchet, according to an expert. One of the last times the feuding brothers came together was exactly a year ago today at the late Queen's state funeral. The two brothers joined their male relatives walking in several processions behind the monarch's coffin, including in London and again at Windsor Castle. Candid shots captured that day showed the royals waiting for the funeral cortege to arrive at St George's Chapel.
Prince William and Prince Harry at the late Queen's funeral last year (AFP via Getty Images)In the snaps, King Charles, Princess Anne, Peter Phillips, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward, William and Harry can be seen alongside the other male royals who walked in the procession. Harry appears to slightly keep his distance from part of the group, who seem deep in conversation with the King while the Earl of Snowdon, Sir Timothy Laurence and the Duke of Gloucester chat in another bubble.
And speaking at the time, body language expert Judi James said it was obvious that Harry was "physically excluded" from the group but there was a sign that William still cares about his brother. She told the Mirror: "Harry looks physically excluded or sidelined in this grouping with some royals gathering around Charles while the others stand with the Earl of Snowdon, almost with their backs turned to Harry.
William turns to face his brother Harry as they await the funeral cortege at Windsor Castle (POOL/AFP via Getty Images)"All the attention has been on Harry and William but they have performed a couple of forced-looking chatting rituals in the past, and in the Oprah interview it seemed to be his father that received all the really negative body language responses from Harry, rather than William. William does seem to have hung back slightly here, which could hopefully be prompted by empathy and the brothers might just be looking in each others’ direction and even speaking, even if their body language is not mirrored as usual."
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Relations between William and Harry have long been strained despite their closeness in their younger years. The fallout is said to have begun before Harry’s wedding to former Suits star, Meghan Markle, with the duke accusing William of being snobbish to his bride.
But it worsened following the death of the late Queen after the accusations Harry publicly levelled at his brother in double tell-alls: his memoir, Spare, and his Netflix documentary. In his autobiography, released just months after Elizabeth II died, Harry accused William of physically attacking him and pushing him into a dog bowl in a row over Meghan.
Harry and Meghan, in their Netflix series two months after the Queen’s death, claimed Kensington Palace lied to protect William when it issued a statement denying a story he had bullied Harry out of the royal family. Harry also wrote of how Charles pleaded with his two sons during a tense meeting at Windsor just after the funeral of Prince Philip, the late Duke of Edinburgh, saying: “Please, boys. Don’t make my final years a misery”.
When it came to marking the first anniversary of the late Queen's death, both brothers were in the UK as Harry made the trip across the Atlantic to his home in California to attend a charity awards ceremony. However, he did not meet up with William nor his father King Charles - and paid his respects to his grandmother alone at Windsor Castle while his two royal relatives were hundreds of miles away in Wales and Scotland respectively.
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