Despite ongoing tensions, Prince William recently recalled the pivotal memories he shared with his brother Prince Harry from their childhood in a new documentary about homelessness.
“My mother took me to The Passage. She took Harry and I there. I think I was 11 at the time, or maybe 10. I’d never been to anything like that so I was a little nervous about what to expect,” the Prince of Wales said in a preview clip for the new ITV documentary. Prince William: We can end homelessness. ”
Photographs from the documentary showed Prince Harry sitting on the lap of his mother, Princess Diana, as two boys dressed casually at a homeless charity smiled at the camera.
Prince William said that when Princess Diana arrived at the center, she, as always, made everyone there feel “relaxed and we were all laughing and joking.”
“I remember thinking at the time, ‘Everyone who doesn’t have a home must be really sad,’ but it was incredible how happy that environment was,” he added in the clip.
Despite a 40th birthday wish from Kensington Palace is believed to be the first public mention of his brother in several years. .
Relations became even more strained after Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan left the UK for California in 2020.
Meghan and Meghan held a revealing meeting with Oprah Winfrey from California in 2021, during which they raised allegations of racism against anonymous members of the royal family, and in 2022 they appeared in the Netflix documentary series Harry & “Princess Meghan” slammed the facility.
Last year, he published a memoir, Spare, in which he accused Prince William of physically attacking him during an argument over Meghan at his London home in 2019, after the couple married. , made various accusations.
More recently, Prince William and Prince Harry appeared to avoid each other at the memorial service for their mother’s brother-in-law Sir Robert Fellowes in August.
The brothers “kept their distance” at the memorial, The Sun reported.
Prince Harry turned down an invitation to Duke of Westminster Hugh Grosvenor’s wedding in northern England in June because Prince William was in attendance, a royal expert told Fox News Digital at the time.
“Even if Prince Harry showed up and snuck into the back row, having two brothers in the same room would cause enough press coverage and public hysteria to overshadow the entire wedding. “Deaf,” explained Christopher Andersen, author of The King.
Prince Harry returned to London for a short visit with his father in February following King Charles’ cancer diagnosis, but did not meet Prince William at the time.
It is believed the two brothers last spoke in 2022, after Queen Elizabeth passed away.
Fox News’ Stephanie Giang-Paunon contributed to this report.