William & Harry will meet with ‘peacekeeper’ Kate after Diana statue & she ‘holds the key’ to healing rift, says expert

PRINCES William & Harry will meet up with Kate Middleton today after the unveiling of their mum's statue, Princess Diana's former butler has said.

Harry and Wills will reportedly go back to Kensington Palace to chat privately this afternoon, where the Duchess of Cambridge will act as a "peacekeeper".

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She is said to "hold the key" to ending the brothers' rift and former royal butler Paul Burrell believes she is the only person who can bring them "back together".

He told Good Morning Britain: "They will go back to Kensington Palace after the ceremony which will be very small, very quick, and then they will meet up with Kate indoors.

"I think Kate holds the key to this. I think she is the peacekeeper.

"She is the person that is going to bring these boys back together."

Wills and Harry are expected to put on a brave face for today's event, which would have been Diana’s 60th birthday.

But relations between the brothers remain frosty after Harry's bombshell Oprah interview.

Mr Burrell said there's "a lot to do" because "a lot has been said".

It comes after the Duke of Sussex, 36, told Oprah in March his relationship with his brother was one of "space" and claimed he and dad Charles are "trapped" in the Royal Family.

And Harry has dropped a string of sensational truth bombs on the Royal Family since the tell-all chat with Meghan Markle.

According to Burrell, if today doesn't bring the boys back together "nothing will".

Speaking of how Kate can help, he said: "She knows they are both hurting. She knows they both want this to work.

"Kate has witnessed this first hand, she knows William wants this to work out.

"Those boys should be stood together, their mother would want them to stand together.” 

Today will not be the first time Kate has acted as a peacemaker between her husband and brother-in-law, after stepping back to allow the pair a private chat while walking away from Prince Philip's emotional funeral.

And today will mark the first time the brothers have been seen together since.

Harry flew back to the UK on Friday and driven to Frogmore Cottage, the marital home he shared with Meghan before they moved to the US.

Meghan has not returned to Britain with him after giving birth to their second child Lilibet earlier this month.