Where Diana Would Have Stood in Harry & William’s ‘Profound’ Feud After Reports the Heir ‘F—ing Hates’ His Brother
Prince Harry & Prince William‘s rift might be at an all-time high due to their incredible disdain for each other. But it also begs the question of how their mother Princess Diana would have intervened if she were still alive today.
Diana’s biographer Andrew Morton told People that the rift between the brothers acts as a “great loss” for the monarchy. “We all remember the days when Harry and William were joshing with one another, and it all seemed set for their relationship and the future — that Harry, as Diana always used to say, would be William’s wingman,” the author said.
He continued, “Diana always used to say she had two boys for a reason — the younger would be there to support the older in the lonely task as future King. There is no doubt Diana would have tried to act as a peacemaker between them. If she had been around, they would have worked things out in a different way.”
On Diana’s birthday, the brothers separately made tributes to her. Prince Harry set out on a tour of Angola to recreate the walk that Princess Diana took across an Angola minefield in 1997. This is a continuing trend, as Prince Harry also did this in 2019 and 2024.
“As a father to young children, it breaks my heart to see innocent children still living and playing next to minefields,” the Duke of Sussex said in a statement. “All of us have a duty to protect children and future generations from the harms of war, both present and past.”
Meanwhile, Prince William went to Sheffield to mark the second anniversary of Homewards, the initiative he launched in 2023 by pledging $3.8 million to six different regions in the U.K. to make homelessness, as he said, “rare, brief and unrepeated.” Diana made homelessness a cause she deeply cared for and advocated her sons to be involved in prevention as well when she would bring them to homeless shelters at a young age.
Fast forward nearly three decades after her death, Diana’s sons are in a irreparable rift and no longer talk to each other. This comes as The Daily Beast reported that, according to a friend of William, “He absolutely f—ing hates” his brother Harry. That same source told the outlet that, “William will never, ever forgive Harry for what he has done. Charles is the king; he can do what he likes. But make no mistake: William believes with every fiber of his being that giving Harry and Meghan back any royal imprimatur is a huge mistake.”
However, it seems like Harry and his father Charles are on the path of reconciling. Senior aides for the two have met, in what is considered a first step towards reconciliation, and the lines of communication are now open for the first time in a while.
Newssite Closer revealed that despite it all, he might reach out to his brother. “Harry desperately wants his brother’s involvement, or at least his blessing – and he wants to be able to return to his homeland without fearing tension or drama, as he strongly feels it’s what their mother would have wanted. But William is hesitant. He doesn’t want Meghan anywhere near a project about Diana. For him, it should only be about the brothers. William’s still hurt by the public attacks and sees no reason to patch things up on Harry’s timetable.”
Whether or not the brothers will leave their beef to the side, their situation in the present would never be favorable to Diana. “This is the sadness of it — they aren’t supporting each other like they should be,” a source close to the royal household told People. “That’s what any mother would want — that they are there for each other.”
