In 2024, a clip of 21-year-old Harry talking affectionately about his older brother resurfaced.
Harry also shared how he and William grew closer with each passing year.
If you’re wondering how things went so very wrong, we got you.
Read on to discover how Harry and William went from brothers in arms to brothers at war.
In the book, Harry recalls being incredibly excited to finally attend the same school as his brother.
He was thrilled that they’d finally be able to spend more time together.
But William had other plans and they did not include Harry.
“I couldn’t make sense of it.
I was like, ‘What do you mean?
We’re now at the same school.
And I took that personally.”
“I tried it on.
Willy and Kate started roaring with laughter,” Harry wrote.
The backlash was instant: “A senior royal dressing up as a Nazi for a laugh?
If that is his idea of a joke it went down like a lead balloon with many …
The Nazis were responsible for the deaths of millions.
“Soon after we returned to Britain, the palace announced that Willy was going to marry.
November 2010… News to me.
All that time together in Lesotho, he’d never mentioned it,” Harry wrote.
I never gave Willy that ring because it wasn’t mine to give.
He already had it.”
“We’d never again ride together across the Lesotho countryside with capes blowing behind us.
We’d never again share a horsey-smelling cottage while learning to fly.
Who shall separate us?
Life, that’s who,” Harry wrote.
“He’d never again be first and foremost Willy,” Harry explained.
But everything changed when Harry started dating Meghan Markle.
“It’s too fast, he told me,” Harry wrote.
In fact, he’d actually been pretty discouraging about my even dating Meg."
“Harry is very protective and quite rightly so,” a palace source toldPeople.
The queen agreed, even though fiances had never been allowed at the celebrations previously.
“Harry felt William wasn’t rolling out the red carpet for Meghan and told him so.
It was only after Meghan and Prince Archie went back to Canada that the palace called a meeting.
The meeting, which lasted about 90 minutes, wasn’t very productive.
“I didn’t know [it] was an insult.
After realizing his mistake, he apologized personally to the cadet he insulted.
In “Spare,” Harry likened his and William’s fallout to a duel.
But maybe it was true,” he wrote.
“And if they didn’t know why I’d left, maybe they just didn’t know me.
And maybe they never really did.”
Still, it was hard to believe that they couldn’t pop in even once.
“Spare,” Harry’s explosive book, didn’t exactly put his brother in a good light.
Harry instantly got upset, accusing his brother of sounding like the British press.
During his interview with Cooper, Harry said that William later apologized.
“It was a pretty nasty experience,” he said.
“They can use this as a starting point.
After Charles announced his cancer diagnosis to the public, Harry hopped on a plane to visit his father.
Royal author Sally Bedell Smith toldAP Newsthat pundits shouldn’t get their hopes up.
2024: William once again fails to meet with Harry during another visit to the U.K. “William and Catherine felt completely betrayed by Harry’s memoir (“Spare”).
Needless to say, no meeting between the estranged brothers took place.
He added that a reconciliation between Harry and William remains very unlikely.
