Prince William and Prince Harry’s fall-out is so bad that insiders fear Harry will not attend his brother’s future coronation.
The pair have not spoken in about two years and a source in the know told Page Six they could not see Harry attending the coronation, musing that William may not even invite him.
In the wake of Harry’s extraordinary BBC interview in which he claimed his father, King Charles, won’t speak to him, the source said, “I think it’s done … I don’t think there’s [any] coming back from that.
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“Before the interview, we thought, ‘Come on William, extend a hand to your brother. But now it seems that Harry hasn’t learned s–t.”
Sussex insiders, however, insist that Harry is keen to make amends with his family. “I would love reconciliation with my family,” he said during the BBC interview earlier this month. “There’s no point continuing to fight any more, life is precious.”
Hugo Vickers, author and friend of the royal family, told Page Six that “theoretically” William should invite his younger brother to his coronation.
“But quite frankly he can do what he likes. It is not set in stone,” Vickers added. “The Duke of Windsor was not invited to [his niece Queen Elizabeth’s] coronation in 1953. There was a lot of discussion about it.”
A rep for Harry had no comment.
Page Six previously reported how no one in the royal circle trusts Harry or his wife, Meghan Markle after the couple have continued to speak publicly about the royal family since leaving the UK in 2020.
Despite reports that William plans to strip Harry and Markle of their HRH titles when he ascends to the throne, Vickers said he cannot imagine this will happen.
“We know that William is unforgiving anyway,” Vickers said. “But … he won’t strip Harry and Meghan of their titles, it appears vindictive.”
The source agreed: “William won’t strip them of their titles because they are irrelevant and meaningless at this point. No one thinks [Harry and Meghan] are royal anyway!”
The Duke of Sussex, 40, was left furious after losing a Court of Appeal challenge against the British government earlier this month over the decision to strip him of his publicly funded security detail.
He told the BBC after the verdict, “I can’t see a world in which I would bring my wife and children back to the UK at this point.”
Claiming that Charles “won’t speak to me because of this security stuff,” Harry revealed that “there have been so many disagreements between myself and some of my family” — and admitted that his “Spare” memoir helped fuel them.
