For years, royal fans were under the assumption that King Charles and Princess Diana’s sons , Prince William and Prince Harry , were very close most of their lives. Even after the Duke of Sussex detailed a fractured relationship in his book Spare , many still believed that the boys had been really close growing up. But now, a royal author who was one of the late Princess Diana ‘s confidants has revealed that the princes did not have any sort of super-tight sibling relationship.
However, there was a time when they did become close for a period long before their royal feud. Royal expert says that talk about William and Harry always being close is a ‘myth’ Royal biographer Ingrid Seward knew Princess Diana for several years and recently spoke about the “myth” so many have always believed about the Duke of Sussex and Prince of Wales being thick as thieves when they were younger. Seward told The Sun : “I remember after William went on his gap year, way back on operation Raleigh, Harry said ‘he’s much nicer now.
’ So this myth that Harry and Wiliam were very close, is a myth.” The author added that Diana had also expressed “concerns” about Harry over the years sharing: “We talked about it quite a lot. She said ‘I worry for Harry and I’m really, really careful that he’s not treated differently than William.
’ When they used to go and see the Queen Mother, she would pat the chair and say ‘Come and sit here William’ and completely ignore Harry, an.