A new ITV documentary has suggested that Prince William was the one who instigated the breakdown of his relationship with brother Harry.
The new doc explores how the brothers’ relationship didn’t only deteriorate over the last few years and “goes deeper than that”.
British historian Robert Lacey, who is also the author of ‘Battle of Brothers’, has said that William was the one who originally no longer wished for Harry and Meghan to be in his household.
Discussing the documentary on her show today, Lorraine Kelly quizzed The Mirror’s Royal Editor Russell Myers on what viewers could expect.
Lorraine said: “Now look, a documentary on Sunday looking at William and Harry and their relationship and how it’s changed.”
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“Well, on Sunday night there’s a new documentary that’s called ‘Harry and William: What went wrong,'” he replied. “It’s all about the relationship breakdown.
“I think we’ve been discussing this for so long. However, this documentary – and Robert Lacey appears in it, the esteemed author who wrote ‘Battle of Brothers’ – and so really gets to the nub of that the relationship breakdown didn’t break down in just the last few years, it goes really deeper than that.”
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In a clip from the documentary, Robert Lacey says: “I’m told that while the story became that Harry and Meghan wished to split households, the original impetuous was William, who no longer wished to have Harry and Meghan in his household.
“What it basically said was that for William, the monarchy mattered more than his brother.”
It comes after Princess Diana’s former butler Paul Burrell suggested that the brothers’ feud could be mended by “peacekeeper” Kate Middleton.
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Appeared on Good Morning Britain yesterday, he discussed with fellow guest and royal biographer Angela Levin as to whether the unveiling of Diana’s statue could bring the Dukes of Cambridge and Sussex together again.
“If this poignant day doesn’t do it then nothing will,” Paul told hosts Kate Garraway and Adil Ray. “If they stand there in front of their mother’s image and think about what she would have wanted, they would know the answer.”
Paul said that he believes that “Kate holds the key” to their reconciliation.
“I think she is the peacekeeper,” he said. “She is standing between the boys and knows that they’re both hurting.
“Kate has witnessed this first hand, she knows that William wants it to work out.”
*Lorraine airs weekdays at 9am on ITV