{"id":28988,"date":"2023-01-05T07:03:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T07:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=28988"},"modified":"2023-01-05T07:03:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T07:03:21","slug":"prince-harry-describes-a-violent-attack-by-brother-william-in-his-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/01\/05\/prince-harry-describes-a-violent-attack-by-brother-william-in-his-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince\u00a0Harry\u00a0describes\u00a0a\u00a0violent\u00a0attack\u00a0by\u00a0brother\u00a0William in his new Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In his\u00a0highly anticipated\u00a0autobiography, Spare, Prince Harry recounts what he says was a physical attack by his brother, William, now Prince of Wales, as their relationship fell apart over the younger prince\u2019s marriage to the actor Meghan Mark<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Describing a confrontation at his London home in 2019, Harry says William called Meghan \u201cdifficult\u201d, \u201crude\u201d and \u201cabrasive\u201d, which Harry calls a \u201cparrot[ing of] the press narrative\u201d about his American wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The confrontation escalated, Harry writes, until William \u201cgrabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and \u2026 knocked me to the floor\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The extraordinary scene, which Harry says resulted in visible injury to his back, is one of many in Spare, which will be published worldwide next week and is likely to spark a serious furore for the British royal family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amid stringent pre-launch security around the book, the Guardian obtained a copy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book\u2019s title comes from an old saying in royal and aristocratic circles: that a first son is an heir to titles, power and fortune, and a second is therefore a spare, should anything happen to the first-born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spare is a remarkable volume, in which the altercation between the two princes forms a startling passage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harry writes that William wanted to talk about \u201cthe whole rolling catastrophe\u201d of their relationship and struggles with the press. But when William arrived at Nottingham Cottage \u2013 where Harry was then living, in the grounds of Kensington Palace and known as \u201cNott Cott\u201d \u2013 he was, Harry says, already \u201cpiping hot\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After William complained about Meghan, Harry writes, Harry told him he was repeating the press narrative and that he expected better. But William, Harry says, was not being rational, leading to the two men shouting over each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harry then accused his brother of acting like an heir, unable to understand why his younger brother was not content to be a spare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kate, William, Harry and Meghan at Windsor Castle in September following the death of the Queen. Photograph: Kirsty O\u2019Connor\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Insults were exchanged, before William claimed he was trying to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harry said: \u201cAre you serious? Help me? Sorry \u2013 is that what you call this? Helping me?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That comment, Harry says, angered his brother, who swore while stepping towards him. Now scared, Harry writes, he went to the kitchen, his furious brother following.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harry writes that he gave his brother a glass of water and said: \u201cWilly, I can\u2019t speak to you when you\u2019re like this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He writes: \u201cHe set down the water, called me another name, then came at me. It all happened so fast. So very fast. He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor. I landed on the dog\u2019s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harry writes that William urged him to hit back, citing fights they had as children. Harry says he refused to do so. William left, Harry says, then returned \u201clooking regretful, and apologised\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When William left again, his brother writes, he \u201cturned and called back: \u2018You don\u2019t need to tell Meg about this.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018You mean that you attacked me?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018I didn\u2019t attack you, Harold.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harry says he didn\u2019t immediately tell his wife \u2013 but did call his therapist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Meghan later noticed \u201cscrapes and bruises\u201d on his back, and he therefore told her of the attack, Harry says she \u201cwasn\u2019t that surprised, and wasn\u2019t all that angry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe was terribly sad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harry\u2019s resentment of being the \u201cspare\u201d is the unifying theme of his book, through chapters on his childhood, his schooling, his career as a royal and in the British army, his relationship with his parents and brother and his life with Meghan through courtship, wedding and marriage to their own experience of parenthood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early on, Harry recounts the story of how his father, now King Charles, supposedly said to his wife, Princess Diana, on the day of Harry\u2019s birth: \u201cWonderful! Now you\u2019ve given me an heir and a spare \u2013 my work is done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether describing his memories and love for Diana, who was killed in a car crash in Paris in August 1997, or his similar love for his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, who died last year, Harry is unsparing in his recounting of intensely private scenes and conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harry met Meghan in 2016. They married\u00a0at Windsor Castle in 2018. As Duke and Duchess of Sussex, they began life as working royals but quickly drifted apart from the family and eventually embarked on a largely separate existence, moving to Canada and then California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their acrimonious split from the royal family has been the subject of endless press coverage, some of it steered themselves, including via a famous\u00a0interview with Oprah Winfrey\u00a0in 2021 that caused huge controversy on both sides of the Atlantic and around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subjects from that interview and\u00a0a recently released Netflix documentary, including a miscarriage suffered by Meghan and her thoughts of suicide, and suggestions of racism within royal circles, are covered extensively in Harry\u2019s book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book has been trailed and two interviews with Harry are due to be broadcast in the UK and US this weekend, with ITV News at Ten and CBS 60 Minutes. Both interviews are eagerly awaited, trailers and teasers reported on as news as speculation about what Harry has chosen to say in his book continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a clip from the ITV interview, Harry said: \u201cI would like to get my father back, I would like to have my brother back.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given the details recounted in his book, that might not seem immediately likely. Indeed one of Harry\u2019s most pertinent revelations of private conversations between the senior royals comes from the very front of his book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harry recounts an anguished meeting with Charles and William after the Windsor Castle\u00a0funeral of Prince Phillip, the queen\u2019s husband, in April 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charles, he says, stood between h<\/p>\n\n\n\n

is warring sons, \u201clooking up at our flushed faces\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPlease, boys,\u201d Harry quotes his father as saying. \u201cDon\u2019t make my final years a misery.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

source:theguardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In his\u00a0highly anticipated\u00a0autobiography, Spare, Prince Harry recounts what he says was a physical attack by his brother, William, now Prince of Wales, as their relationship fell apart over the younger prince\u2019s marriage to the actor Meghan Mark Describing a confrontation at his London home in 2019, Harry says William called Meghan \u201cdifficult\u201d, \u201crude\u201d and \u201cabrasive\u201d, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":28990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80,12],"tags":[11261,10618,9249,2014,8217,9251,5304,6682,11183,5268,770,2848,1953,13175,12636,287,7593,8193,7234,5241,6190,1291,2667,6901,5455,7896,2416,69,11294,9888,11493,10623,3040,2817,9515,7874,7881,3684,6220,5802,9349,9833,70,2812,12309,6511,5936,9250,8323,11973,2352,7526,1253,9248,965,2822,2773,3927,504,8133,5655,9247,6965,7391,12605,6348,1254,8869,5781,12790,3954,5436,10415,36,594,6974],"class_list":["post-28988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-world-news","tag-accused","tag-actor","tag-american-wife","tag-and-meghan","tag-army","tag-assualt","tag-attack","tag-birth","tag-boys","tag-british","tag-british-royal-family","tag-california","tag-canada","tag-car","tag-car-crash","tag-children","tag-controversy","tag-crash","tag-death","tag-died","tag-dog","tag-duchess-of-sussex","tag-duke-and-duchess-of-sussex","tag-elizabeth-ii","tag-family","tag-funeral","tag-h","tag-harry","tag-injury","tag-insults","tag-interview","tag-itv","tag-kate","tag-kensington-palace","tag-killed","tag-king-charles","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-london","tag-love","tag-marriage","tag-married","tag-meeting","tag-meghan","tag-meghan-markle","tag-men","tag-miscarriage","tag-netflix","tag-nott-cott","tag-nottingham","tag-one","tag-oprah-winfrey","tag-parenthood","tag-paris","tag-parrot-of-the-press","tag-prince-harry","tag-prince-william","tag-princess-diana","tag-queen","tag-racism","tag-royal-family","tag-security","tag-spare","tag-split","tag-suicide","tag-uk","tag-us","tag-wales","tag-water","tag-wedding","tag-weekend","tag-will","tag-windsor","tag-work","tag-world","tag-who","tag-worldwide"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}