William’s had a rotten 18 months. Many have remarked he’s appeared unusually sombre – and not just when standing next to Prince Andrew. Now royal author A.N. WILSON reveals: What’s eating William

Here, we may be touching on the main reason for William’s apparent discomfiture: Harry.
William’s younger brother is evidently trying to make a comeback. A few days before Trump’s visit, Harry embarked on his four-day, pseudo-royal tour of Britain. He also had tea with their father, and it seemed as if the slow process of a reconciliation had begun. Reconciliation, that is, between the King and his wayward prodigal son – not reconciliation between Harry and William.

Of the two sons, Harry was always the boy favoured by Charles – which is one of the factors that has made Harry’s breach with the Royal Family so especially painful for the King.
William is incensed by any notion of a comeback for Harry. The sense of betrayal he feels cannot be overestimated. Harry abandoned him and Kate, as well as the Firm.

He went on to trash the family – Kate included – by suggesting unnamed royals were racist. In his tell-all memoir Spare, Harry talked of the visceral relationship between the two brothers, not least in the notorious scene of William knocking his younger brother to the ground, breaking his necklace in the process.

Royal biographer Tina Brown claims that King Charles is ‘underwhelmed’ by William’s failure to pull his weight
Some have suggested that the stress caused by the savagery of Harry’s treatment of his own family might have contributed to either the King’s or Catherine’s cancer. Whether true or not, imagine that thought playing on William’s mind.
Harry has spoken of his desire to bring his children to England, perhaps, even to settle here and to educate Archie and Lilibet in English schools. This has evidently not gone down well with the elder brother – the idea that Harry thinks he can swan back into public consciousness as if all is forgiven appals William.