Harry should be William’s key adviser – but that’s out the window. It would break Diana’s heart, expert says
HARRY was set to be Prince William’s top adviser when he becomes King – but now “that’s out of the window”, says an expert.
Charles Rae, a legendary former royal correspondent, told The Sun’s Royal Exclusive show how the estranged brothers’ fractured relationship would break Diana’s heart.
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Speaking to The Sun’s Royal Editor Matt Wilkinson, Rae spoke of the duke and Prince William’s former unbreakable bond.
“They were really, really close. And this is what makes it so sad that they’re now so far apart,” he said.
“When William becomes King, I always believed Harry would be one of his top advisers.
“I think that’s out of the window.”
Wilkinson added how Harry should be William’s “wingman”.
YEARS OF TENSION
Rae continued: “Yeah and that’s what Diana always wanted, the boys to remain as close as possible, they had each other, and it was them against the rest of the world but of course now it’s not happening.”
It follows years of tension after Megxit in 2020, when the Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped down as senior royals.
The couple relocated to their £11million Montecito mansion in California with their son Archie.
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In 2021 Harry and Meghan sat down in an explosive interview with Oprah.
The couple sent shock waves across the world when they accused the Royal Family of “concerns and conversations” regarding “how dark” son Archie’s skin would be.
Last year these disgusting claims resurfaced in shamed royal author Omid Scobie’s hatchet job book Endgame, when two names were leaked.
In two passages of a translated version in the Netherlands, King Charles and Princess Kate were named as the royals involved.
ROYAL WEDDING
Meanwhile, in the Oprah interview, the duchess also claimed Princess Kate made her cry in the lead up to their £23million wedding in 2018.
Prince Harry then famously told how Charles had stopped taking his calls after abandoning royal life and claimed he was “cut off” financially by the Royal Family.
In December the following year, Harry and Meghan then released their bombshell Netflix documentary in which they launched yet more vile attacks at the Firm.
Harry next released his sensational memoir Spare in January 2023 which seemingly broke ties with his brother altogether.
He alleged William “knocked him to the floor” during an argument about Meghan.
The Duke also wrote that William branded Meghan “rude” and “difficult” during a row.
He claimed his brother “grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and … knocked me to the floor”.
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Harry also alleged Will and Kate encouraged him to wear his notorious Nazi uniform to a fancy dress party.
He said the now Prince and Princess of Wales “howled with laughter” when they saw him dressed up in the offensive outfit for the party in 2005.
There are now Palace fears over Harry releasing a ‘damaging’ sequel to Spare amid his four-part book deal.
In May 2023, the duke flew over in a brief pit-stop to witness King Charles III’s coronation, where he remained separate from the family.
He then made a transatlantic dash earlier this year to visit his father after the monarch’s cancer announcement.
But he did not see William.
Since Kate’s shocking cancer news, Harry and Meghan have not been to the UK and it is understood the couple found out at the same time as the rest of the world.
However, despite the brother’s history, one royal expert believed a reunion could still be on the cards in the future – but Meghan still poses an obstacle.
There were rumours circulating that Prince William and Princess Kate had extended an olive branch and invited the Sussexes over with children Archie and Lilibet.
Richard Fitzwilliams told The Sun Harry and William could meet when the duke visits the UK in May to mark the tenth anniversary of the Invictus Games.
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Ultimately, the expert suggested Meghan would make the final call on whether they visit their family across the pond.
He claimed: “Meghan has the say. There’s no doubt Harry wishes to convey he is a very devoted family man and will put them above everything else. Just like William.”
A timeline of Prince Harry and William’s ‘feud’: Brothers ‘at war’
In 2018, the Sun told how “simmering tension” began when William questioned the speed of Harry and Meghan’s engagement.
The first hints of friction reportedly came after William was introduced to Meghan when she was staying at Kensington Palace.
Once she’d returned home to Canada, William and Harry sat down for a brother-to-brother chat.
He knew Harry was already head-over-heels for her but it has been claimed he advised him to take it slowly.
The younger prince reportedly didn’t take too kindly to the advice, with one royal source saying he “went mental”.
Then in June 2019 Harry and Meghan officially split off from the charity they shared with William and Kate.
The Royal Foundation will be divided between the Sussexes and Cambridges as the couples focus on their own separate charitable endeavours.
Prince William and Prince Harry first established the Royal Foundation in 2009 before Kate joined two years later shortly after their engagement was announced.
The trio would often appear together at events and the Foundation had huge successes with projects like the Invictus Games for injured veterans and the mental health Heads Together campaign.
The Royal Foundation said the decision was made following the conclusion of a review into its structure – but added both couples will continue to work together in the future.
Harry and Meg were living in close proximity to Kate and Wills within the Kensington Palace estate, but they switched to Frogmore Cottage in Windsor before baby Archie was born.
The move further increased rumours of a fallout.
Harry, 39, also hinted in his ITV documentary “Harry and Meghan, An African Journey” that he and his brother had grown apart.
It came after Prince Philip called Meghan the “D.O.W” after the Duchess of Windsor — the American divorcee who led Edward VIII to abdicate.
And he warned the late Queen to be “cautious” of Harry’s then bride-to-be, a royal author claims.
Ingrid Seward revealed in new book My Mother And I that Prince Philip felt it was “uncanny…how much Meghan reminded him of the Duchess of Windsor“.
In 2021, Harry and Meghan give their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey where Harry accused his dad of cutting him off financially.
Harry then jetted back to UK to join William in unveiling a statue to their mother Princess Diana in the grounds of Kensington Palace. But sources claimed William didn’t want to attend the memorial amid their ongoing rift.
In 2022, just before their grandmother the Queen died, sources claimed Kate acts as a “peacemaker” between the brothers.
Last year Harry claimed his brother “knocked him to the floor” during an argument about Meghan.
In his book Spare, Harry said William branded Meghan “rude” and “difficult” during a row.
Harry alleged William “grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and … knocked me to the floor”.
He said he was left with a visible injury to his back following the argument in 2019 at Nottingham Cottage on the grounds of Kensington Palace, where he was living at the time.
In January this year, Harry flew in to be with Charles after the monarch’s shock cancer diagnosis.
Harry flew back to the US the following day – without seeing Wills.
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