Prince Harry needs to decide ‘what he wants’, royal expert warns

Royal expert Jennie Bond has warned Prince Harry needs to decide what he actually wants – amid reports the Duke of Sussex and his brother Prince William will struggle to ‘reconcile after his tell-all memoir’.

Speaking on GB News ahead of the release of Harry’s book Spare, Ms Bond said: ‘I think even that title is very revealing. But I want to know, what is it that Harry wants? 

‘Feuds between brothers, between siblings, go back as far as Cain and Abel if you like. There’s nothing new about that. So, what did Harry want? Did he want the destiny into which William was born? Does he want to be King? I think not.’

Insiders fear the strained relationship between the brothers is likely to be further damaged by attacks on the Prince of Wales and his wife Kate, both 40, in the controversial book, due out next week. 

Ms Bond said: ‘I think that [Harry] doesn’t like very much about the way the institution of our monarchy works. 

‘I don’t think he’d like the fact that his wings will be clipped even further like his father’s have been now that he is monarch. I don’t think he’d like anything about it.’

Urging Harry to reflect on history, she continued: ‘Look back if you like to George the sixth and his brother Edward the eighth, who abdicated and handed this chalice to his brother Bertie. 

‘His wife, the Queen mother, was crying, when they knew this was to be their destiny. She didn’t want him to be King. So, what is it that Harry wants?’

Insiders fear the strained relationship between the brothers (pictured in September)  is likely to be further damaged by attacks on the Prince of Wales and his wife Kate, both 40, in the controversial book, due out next week

The Duke’s book is said to be so tough on the Prince of Wales that insiders fear the sibling relationship, which has been strained considerably since Harry and Meghan Markle announced they were stepping back from their royal duties, will not recover.

A source told the Sunday Times: ‘Generally, I think the book [will be] worse for them than the Royal Family is expecting. Everything is laid bare. 

‘Charles comes out of it better than it had expected, but it’s tough on William, in particular, and even Kate gets a bit of a broadside. 

‘There are these minute details, and a description of the fight between the brothers. I personally can’t see how Harry and William will be able to reconcile after this.’ 

The Duke of Sussex is expected to claim in Spare how unfair it was that he was always forced to play ‘second fiddle’ to his older brother, who is the heir to the British throne. 

The King is said to fare better than his eldest son, but is already wounded by criticisms of him and other senior royals in Harry’s Netflix series with wife Meghan.

Sources say that while the King is deeply hurt and bewildered by Harry’s actions, he is still keen to keep a line of communication open, however guarded. ‘Whether Prince William would be so receptive is another question,’ one source said.

‘Things are hanging by a thread as it is after the past few months, and from the sounds of it Harry’s memoir is unlikely to help.’

The Daily Mail has previously reported that while friends find it hard to believe that the brothers will never talk again after all they have been through, William feels betrayed and angered by his brother’s constant attacks on the Royal Family.

There is also deep concern that anything they say privately could be made public by Harry or Meghan.

While Buckingham Palace is refusing to comment or get caught up in a ‘pointless tit for tat’ public row with the Sussexes, there is a degree of ‘apprehension’ about Harry’s memoir.

Prince William, then Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, then Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex attend a service at Westminster Abbey on November 11, 2018

The book will effectively be about the sibling rivalry between Princes Harry and William, a source told the Sun. 

They said it will reveal that Harry’s ‘bitterness and feelings of unfairness’ due to his older brother’s birthright to become King means he has always ‘played second fiddle to older William’.

But their mother Princess Diana warned the siblings they ‘must never fall out’ as they would need each other, the source said adding that it was ‘very sad’ their falling out had got this far. 

Prince Harry’s highly anticipated memoir will be entitled ‘Spare’ and is set to be released on January 10, publisher Penguin Random House confirmed

Spare is written by JR Moehringer, a Pulitzer prize-winning former journalist who was also the ghost writer for Andre Agassi’s best-selling autobiography.

The book’s publisher Penguin Random House claims that it will be a ‘landmark publication’, telling his story with ‘raw, unflinching honesty’.

Harry is also expected to give two high-profile television interviews to promote it.

He has reportedly already recorded an ITV interview in California with its News At Ten presenter Tom Bradby, a former royal correspondent who has known both William and Harry for decades.

The second television interview will be with broadcaster CBS in the US. It will be conducted by news anchor Anderson Cooper and is set to be shown on Sunday.

Publishing sources also said Harry was expected to do at least one newspaper interview, potentially with The New York Times. Buckingham Palace is expected to maintain its silence about his accusations. But they are unlikely to end with his memoir.

After quitting as working royals, Harry and Meghan struck lucrative deals with Netflix, Spotify and Penguin Random House which commit them to further projects. Their publishing deal is understood to be for four books, which could include a bombshell memoir by Meghan.

The duchess, 41, is known to have kept a personal diary while she was in Britain.

She has previously released a children’s book, The Bench, with the same publisher and the couple are said to be working on a book about ‘wellness’. But some have warned there could be a danger of over-exposure, following their Oprah interview, the Netflix series and Harry’s memoir.

One senior Hollywood executive told The Mail on Sunday: ‘If I was advising her I would caution against releasing a book too quickly because there is a very real danger that people will start experiencing ‘Sussex fatigue’.

‘There comes a point where people might feel they’ve heard the same stories too many times. They have to change the narrative at some stage and focus on the future rather than the past.’

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