Prince Harry made a lot of revelations in his autobiography Spare, but he says he held back even more information about his brother.
The royal, who is estranged from the heir to the throne Prince William, shared many stories about his older sibling and his father, King Charles, in last year’s book. One damaging accusation was that William had been violent towards Harry at his London home in 2019.
The younger of Princess Diana’s son’s described a bitter confrontation which saw William reportedly call his new sister-in-law Meghan Markle ‘difficult’, ‘rude’ and ‘abrasive’. The argument ended, according to Harry, when he ‘grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and… knocked me to the floor’.
Harry and his wife had already been extremely candid in TV interviews, including 2021’s famous sit down with Oprah Winfrey and the six-part Harry and Meghan Netflix series. But while Harry shared an even bigger number of stories about his famous family in Spare, he claimed he held lots back, too.
“It could have been two books, put it that way,” said the father-of-two, who now lives in California with Meghan and their children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, in an interview with The Telegraph. “And the hard bit was taking things out.
“There are some things that have happened, especially between me and my brother and to some extent between me and my father, that I just don’t want the world to know. Because I don’t think they would ever forgive me.”
The information Harry did reveal has already led to an estrangement with his older brother and, according to an insider, has left his father ‘wary’ about meeting up too.