Prince William “does not know” why his estranged younger brother Prince Harry is seeking out an apology from the royal family, according to a royal expert.
Since quitting royal life in 2020, Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, have had little to no contact with the Duke of Sussex’s side of the family.
Not only that, but Harry sensationally demanded an apology from senior members of the Firm despite airing out his family’s dirty laundry in a series of high-profile projects.
But according to royal historian Gareth Russell, Harry’s brother, the Prince of Wales, doesn’t understand why anyone should be apologizing to the exiled couple.
“There’s a bit in the memoir where Prince Harry says, William was asking, ‘What is it? What is the problem?’” Russell told GB News.
“And Prince Harry said to himself, ‘How could he not know?’ So I think maybe there’s a lot of things that Prince Harry is carrying around.”
Prince William “does not know” why his estranged younger brother Prince Harry is seeking out an apology from the royal family, according to a royal expert.Getty Images
Since quitting royal life in 2020, Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, have had little to no contact with the Duke of Sussex’s side of the family.Getty Images
“But it’s possible that even Prince William isn’t 100 percent sure what all of them saw, according to Prince Harry,” he added.
The Sussexes haven’t been on the best terms with the royal family following a string of media appearances.
In January, Harry released his tell-all bombshell memoir “Spare,” in which he accused his brother of physically “attacking” him in a spat about Markle.
In January, Harry demanded an apology from the royal family.PA Images via Getty Images
“Harry & Meghan,” released in December on Netflix, shared more details about why the couple decided to take a step back from their roles as senior working members of the royal family.
And in March 2021, Markle sat down for an explosive interview with Winfrey. Harry claimed that racism was a “large part” of why they needed to leave the UK.
Speaking about the feuding brothers, the author of “The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court,” continued, “In ‘Spare,’ he spent so much time complaining about who got the better room at Balmoral. Plus, for it to be released in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis was an interesting move.
“It does emerge as quite personal and maybe longstanding, and maybe it is jealousy.”
The Sussexes aired out the royal family’s dirty laundry in a series of high-profile projects, including a sit-down interview with Oprah.AP
“As the title of the memoir suggests, Prince Harry has always felt like a spare, so basically it’s just the luck of the family tree there,” Russell added.
He continued, “He makes quite cryptic comments like ‘They know what they did’. Which, given that he’s prepared to specify in detail everything else is strange.
“So I don’t think anyone’s 100% sure what it is. Even according to Prince Harry himself, Prince William doesn’t know what it is.”
Harry and William have barely spoken since the exiled prince shut the door on royal life in 2020.POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Since leaving for California in 2020, Harry has only been back in the UK a few times, including for his father’s coronation at Westminster Abbey in May.
In January, Harry sensationally demanded an apology from the royal family, telling them to “come clean.”
“You know what you did, and I now know why you did it. And you’ve been caught out, so just come clean,” he said at the time.
Harry, who claimed his family is treating him as if he is “delusional and paranoid,” did not clarify what exactly he wants his family to apologize to Meghan for.
The father-of-two insisted that “if people had listened” to him sooner, the rift between the Duchess of Sussex with the rest of the royal family wouldn’t have gotten so bad.
“It was all so avoidable. But they just couldn’t help themselves,” he said, referring to the royals.
