Revealed: How Prince William went ‘ballistic’ after he was presented with a ‘dossier of distress’ documenting claims about Meghan Markle’s treatment of staff
Following the dossier, William and Harry allegedly had a testy phone call where the Duke of Sussex ‘flared up in a fierce defence of his wife’.
Roberts wrote: ‘The moment the Prince heard the bullying allegations he got straight on the phone to talk to Harry – and when Harry flared up in furious defence of his wife, the elder brother persisted.
‘Harry shut off his phone angrily, so William went straight round to find his brother on the Kensington campus.’
As early as 2019, rumours of a falling out between the brothers started circulating.
It was first addressed by Harry in the documentary Harry & Meghan: An African Journey, saying ‘you have good days, you have bad days.’
But by 2020, tensions appeared to have deepened when Harry and Meghan announced their plans to step back as senior royals.
Harry later claimed in his Netflix series with Meghan that William screamed and shouted at him during the Sandringham summit.
The brothers were last reunited publicly together at their grandmother Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral in September 2022, though they both attended the private funeral for their uncle Robert Fellowes last summer.
Speaking in an Australian documentary earlier this year, Knauf revealed that the estrangement between the two princes had been ‘hard and sad.’