Prince William and Princess Kate’s rift with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will “never be healed”, Palace aides claim.
It comes via Tom Quinn, author of Gilded Youth: An Intimate History of Growing Up in the Royal Family.
In an exclusive interview with Express US, Quinn shared the behind-closed-doors conversations he had with Palace insiders.
He said: “I’ve spoken to people who worked for both William and Kate when they were in England.
“They say the rift is never really going to be healed.”
The author was told that the Fab Four, as they were once affectionately known, will forever exchange “uncomfortable” glances at royal engagements after everything that’s happened.
“Whenever they have to meet up, they will look like they’re just uncomfortable with each other.”
These comments were echoed in a separate interview with royal biographer Tom Bower.
The author of Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors, told Express US that Kate and William would be “well advised” to stay away from Harry and Meghan.
He told Express US: “They can only do them harm. Harry and Meghan have only said awful things about William and Kate. Why on earth should William and Kate forgive them?”
In Bower’s opinion, the Sussexes would simply “abuse” the relationship again if they patched things up with William and Kate.
He continued: “They would just use it to hit back again. They’re so selfish, Harry and Meghan. They only think of themselves. They only think of how they have been harmed. They never think that when they told all their lives to Oprah Winfrey or in his [Harry’s] book Spare; his terrible accusations against William and Kate and against Camilla, it was just shocking behaviour. Why should anyone forget what he did or forgive him?”
What lies at the heart of the royal rift?
After Harry and Meghan moved stateside, they pursued a number of projects that sought to expose the inner workings of the Royal Family.
Kate and William, along with other family members, found themselves in the firing line as the Sussexes dropped one so-called truth bomb after another.
The now-infamous interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021 got the ball rolling.
During that interview, Meghan insinuated a member of the family was racist towards her.
William and Kate demanded the Palace issue a strong response to the bombshell interview, which threatened to engulf the whole institution in a race row.
A few years later Harry released his tell-all memoir, Spare, which portrayed William and his wife in a negative light.
Harry claimed his brother physically attacked him as their relationship frayed over his marriage to Meghan.
In another passage, Harry claimed Kate made his wife cry over bridesmaids dresses ahead of their 2018 wedding.
Given Harry and Meghan’s behaviour, “I would not be surprised” if William and Kate want nothing to do with them, Mr Bower said.
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