It’s been more than two years since Prince Harry released his shocking memoir Spare, and royal fans are still reeling from a previous accusation he made about William and Catherine, the Prince and Princess of Wales.
For anyone who need a reminder, the Duke of Sussex’s blockbuster biography detailed incidents of extreme mistreatment that he and his wife, Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, allegedly faced while serving as working royals.
Not only did the father-of-two accuse one high-profile member of the Firm of raising concerns about his son, Prince Archie’s skin tone, but he also claimed that his sister-in-law, Kate Middleton, had ‘bullied’ the former Suits actress on many occasions.
In one instance, he wrote that Kate had brought Meghan to tears over a bridesmaids’ dress that needed to be’remade’ for her daughter Princess Charlotte, claiming to have discovered his wife’sobbing on the floor’.
He further stated that the next day, Kate delivered a bouquet of flowers and a card of apology.
Despite this, a number of British tabloids said that Meghan, now 44, had brought 43-year-old Kate to tears that fateful day, prompting them to arrange a reunion.
Despite the fact that the subsequent’summit’ with William, 43, and Kate took held on Harry and Meghan’s ‘turf’, the Spare author claims the meeting devolved into accusations of press leaks.
“We all gathered in our little front annex, and this time there was no small talk,” Harry wrote. “Kate got things rolling straight away by acknowledging that these stories in the papers about Meg making her cry were totally false.”
He went on to claim that Kate had told his wife: ‘I know, Meghan, that I was the one who made you cry’.
“I sighed. Excellent start, I thought,” Harry added. “Meg appreciated the apology, but wanted to know why the papers had said this, and what was being done to correct them?
“In other words: ‘Why isn’t your office standing up for me? Why haven’t they phoned this execrable woman who wrote this story and demanded a retraction?’.”
The Prince recounted Kate becoming nervous and reluctant to respond, after which William interjected ‘with some very supportive-sounding evasions, but I already knew the truth’.
“No one at the Palace could phone the correspondent,” Harry continued. “Because that would invite the inevitable retort: ‘Well, if the story’s wrong, what’s the real story? What did happen between the two duchesses?’ And that door must never be opened, because it would embarrass the future queen. The monarchy, always, at all costs, had to be protected.
“We shifted from what to do about the story to where it came from. Who could’ve planted such a thing? Who could’ve leaked it to the press in the first place? Who? We went around and around. The list of suspects became vanishingly small.”
Harry claimed William ‘finally’ chimed in again, claiming that ‘while he’d been on tour in Australia, he and Kate had gone to dinner with Pa [King Charles III] and Camilla’.
“Alas, he said sheepishly,” Harry went on. “He might’ve let it slip that there’d been strife between the two couples… I put a hand over my face. Meg froze. A heavy silence fell. So now we knew.
“I told Willy: You…of all people…should’ve known… He nodded. He knew. More silence. It was time for them to go.”
Following Spare’s stunning charges, the royal family has maintained a wall of silence, with no senior members issuing anything on the subject.
The Daily Mail said earlier this summer that Harry and his father, Charles, had dispatched emissaries to a’secret peace summit’ in London.
The reconciliation ceremony was ‘leaked’ to the press, according to The Telegraph, putting the fragile peace operation in jeopardy and increasing “suspicion and distrust” on both sides.
Meanwhile, Harry and William last saw each other in August 2024 at the memorial service for their uncle, Lord Robert Fellowes.
According to People, the brothers may end up in the same room later this summer if they decide to attend their eldest cousin Peter Philips’ wedding to his second wife, Harriet Sperling.
