Prince Harry’s savage take on Princess Kate’s 'country bumpkin' life
Prince Harry was not too happy about one thing, claims author.
Prince Harry allegedly felt “displaced” and was not too happy about his brother, Prince William, spending more time with Princess Catherine’s family after their marriage and the birth of their children, a royal author has claimed. The Duke of Sussex is said to have felt cast out after the Prince of Wales began spending more time with the Middleton family and less time with him.
Author Tina Brown, who also wrote Princess Diana’s biography, wrote in her book, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor, the Truth and the Turmoil, that, according to a former royal aide, the brothers’ relationship never returned to the same place after William married Catherine.
She wrote: “Though they were still incredibly close, living next door to each other [at Kensington Palace], sharing the same office, and hanging out an awful lot, [Harry] mourned his us-against-the-world bond with William.”
She added: “Harry felt displaced by their bougie family unit, and couldn’t understand his brother’s obsession with his Middleton in-laws, whose Bucklebury world bored Harry to tears.”
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Ms Brown claimed that in the Duke’s eyes, the Waleses had become a “tight unit”, and his brother a “full-on Windsor country bumpkin”.
She further explained: “On weekends when he wasn’t chez Middleton, he was tramping the grounds of Anmer Hall, the red-brick Georgian mansion on the Sandringham Estate that the Queen gave the couple as a wedding present, wearing a flat cap and tweed jacket like his 'turnip toff' Norfolk farmer friends.”
The author also wrote about the future King’s alleged views on his younger brother.
She claimed William was “less amused” than the British public by Harry’s “recklessness” which allegedly “exasperated him”.
Meanwhile, Joe Little, managing editor of Majesty Magazine, previously said about William and the Middleton family: “William fitted into the Middleton family very quickly and they took to him as a future son-in-law."
“I think also a bit of stability and grounding and a bit of normality that William perhaps wasn't too familiar with when growing up, because clearly his parents' marriage was facing difficulties when he was a child and he was very aware of that and eventually their marriage disintegrated.
“With the Middletons, he got stability and a bit of normality, so for that William will forever be grateful.”
