16 December 2023 , 10:18
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Prince Harry did not understand Prince William's "obsession" with his in-laws after marrying his wife Catherine, a royal author has claimed.
Tina Brown, who wrote the 2022 book The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor, spoke to a royal aide who said the Duke of Sussex's relationship with his older brother changed after William's marriage in 2011. The aide claimed the distance between the two brothers increased even more since the birth of Princess Charlotte in 2015.
But the writer, who is also a journalist and broadcaster, said Harry and William were still "incredibly close" as they both lived at Kensington Palace at the time, shared the same office and spent a lot of time together. However, according to Ms Brown, Harry "mourned his us-against-the-world bond with William" after the Prince of Wales married Kate.
The relationship between brothers Harry and William got worse over time (Getty Images)The royal author also said that Harry felt "displaced" by William's family unit and could not understand his brother's "obsession" with his Middleton in-laws, as he allegedly found their life to be boring. Ms Brown said: "Harry felt displaced by their bougie family unit, and couldn’t understand his brother’s obsession with his Middleton in-laws, whose Bucklebury world bored Harry to tears.
"The [Waleses] had become a tight unit, and William a full-on Windsor country bumpkin. On weekends when he wasn't chez Middleton, he was tramping the grounds of Anmer Hall, the red-brick Georgian mansion on the Sandringham Estate that the Queen gave the couple as a wedding present, wearing a flat cap and tweed jacket like his ‘turnip toff’ Norfolk farmer friends."
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But the brothers were not without their quarrels, and in the time that followed William "felt Harry's unabated Jack the Lad behaviour was getting tiresome", reports the Express. He also was "less amused than the British public" when details such as Harry's strip billiards "debacle" in Las Vegas were unearthed.
Harry speaking to Catherine at a tea party in the grounds of Buckingham Palace in 2017 (Getty Images)This all came around the same time as William was becoming more in tune with his wife's family, the Middletons. Joe Little, the Managing Editor of Majesty Magazine, said Kate "brought her family" when it came to cementing her position within the Firm.
He added: "William fitted into the Middleton family very quickly and they took to him as a future son-in-law. I think also a bit of stability and grounding and a bit of normality that William perhaps wasn't too familiar with when growing up because clearly his parents' marriage was facing difficulties when he was a child and he was very aware of that and eventually their marriage disintegrated. With the Middletons, he got stability and a bit of normality, so for that William will forever be grateful."