Still Feuding? William and Harry’s Relationship Remains ‘Dicey’: Expert

The rift isn’t closed but. Prince William and Prince Harry are nonetheless clashing regardless of the united entrance they placed on as they greeted mourners within the wake of Queen Elizabeth II‘s dying, royal professional Christopher Andersen solely tells Us Weekly.

The new Prince of Wales, 40, and the Duke of Sussex, 37, appeared collectively in Windsor with their respective wives, Princess Kate and Meghan Markle on Saturday, September 10. It was the return of the Fab Four, however it doesn’t imply the brothers’ feud is over. Andersen mentioned each males are placing their variations apart whereas grieving their grandmother, who died on Thursday, September 8, at age 96, and supporting their father King Charles III as he accedes the throne.

“I think [Charles is] very careful and I think he’s trying to be subdued and trying to be a unifying figure. I think he needs to sell the British people, for example, on a number of things. And one of them is Camilla as queen,” Andersen defined solely to Us on Monday, September 12.

“He’s gotta have all hands on deck, and that means having both William and Harry as partners as well,” the creator, who wrote the New York Times bestseller The Day Diana Died, continued. “And I think the relationship with Harry and William is still dicey.”

The brothers have seemingly been at odds since at the very least 2019, when the Invictus Games founder overtly acknowledged that they weren’t seeing eye-to-eye within the documentary Harry & Meghan: An African Journey. “We’re certainly on different paths at the moment but I’ll always be there for him and as I know he’ll always be there for me,” the BetterUp CIO mentioned on the time.

William was the one to achieve out and invite Harry and Meghan — who had been within the U.Okay. forward of the queen’s dying for some public talking engagements — to make an look with him and Kate.

“William invited Harry and Meghan to join them,” a supply solely advised Us about their public reunion on Saturday, September 10. “They were delayed in arriving while they arranged the plans.”

The invitation wasn’t an all-encompassing olive department, Andersen advised Us. “Even though they got together to greet people outside of the palaces and look at the flowers and such, [but] even then, you could see a kind of stiffness and formality between the two couples,” the Brothers and Wives author famous.

While William prolonged the invite, Andersen believes it’s Charles who actually desires Harry again on good phrases with the household.

“Charles would like everybody to be there and doing their job, and it’s in his interest to get Harry back into the fold. I’m not so sure William is that interested,” the journalist mentioned. “I think he’s got much more of a grudge against Harry at this time.”

The Sussexes don’t appear too anxious to construct bridges both. “I just think that Harry and Meghan still are uneasy,” Andersen continued. “We’ve seen that in a recent interview that Meghan gave [last month with The Cut]. So it’ll take an awful lot, I think, for them to mend those fences [and] get things back to where they were.”

However, grudges might be put apart, at the very least quickly, for them to grieve the queen.

“Let’s not forget, this is to pay their respects to their grandmother. They were so close to Elizabeth,” Andersen mentioned. “They admired her as anyone else would their grandmother, but she was also their queen, and William, in particular, was the recipient of all sorts of attention from the queen. I mean, she knew he was the future of the monarchy. He and Kate and the Cambridge children are there all the future of the monarchy.”

With reporting by Christina Garibaldi