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Prince William ‘does not want Harry at his coronation’ as brothers ‘haven’t spoken for two years’, friends reveal
Harry left the Royal Family four years ago and has since made a number of shocking allegations about William
PRINCE William does not want Harry to come to his coronation as the brothers have not spoken for two years, friends have claimed.
Growing up, the now estranged brothers shared many of the same friends who were part of their close, tight-knit circle.
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But in the present day the two warring brothers are still embroiled in a bitter years-long feud which shows no signs of ending.
Pals of Prince William have been told the heir wants his own crowning to “look and feel different” when the time comes.
And Harry, who William is thought not to have spoken to since the Queen’s funeral nearly two years ago, will not be needed.
When the Princess of Wales publicly revealed her cancer diagnosis in March — news William did not share in advance with his brother — sources close to the Sussexes said they reached out privately to Will and Kate but the contact went unreciprocated.
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For now, it seems that the Prince of Wales has no intention of making amends with Harry.
A pal of William’s told : “This year his focus has very much been on his wife, his children and his father.
“His brother isn’t really something that’s discussed.”
One of the brothers’ closest friends added: “They are estranged, which is dreadfully sad.”
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex now live in California with Prince Archie, five, and Princess Lilibet, three, after stepping down as senior working royals in 2020.
But after Harry left the Royal Family four years ago, he has since made a number of shocking allegations about William.
Their bond has only worsened after the Sussexes made a number of accusations against the Royal Family in their Netflix docuseries.
It is thought the brothers’ frosty relationship was made worse after the publication of Spare, in which Harry suggested Kate was cold towards Meghan.
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The Times reports that William is unlikely to forgive his younger brother any time soon for the digs against his wife.
William and Harry are understood not to have spoken since the Queen’s funeral two years ago, when they “barely exchanged a word”, Harry wrote in Spare.
The brothers were last seen together at King Charles's Coronation last May but they were sat separately and the Duke made a quick escape.
Harry visited the UK for a three-day trip earlier this year but declined to meet up with either King Charles or his older brother.
Charles and his youngest son last met face to face when Harry raced to London from California when news broke about the monarch's cancer diagnosis in February.
But since that meeting, Harry has not seen his father despite them both being in London on the same day in May.
His spokesman issued a statement implying the King was too busy: “The Duke is of course understanding of his father’s diary commitments and various other priorities and hopes to see him soon.”
However, according to the Sunday Times, the King had in fact agreed to Harry’s request to stay at a royal residence, hoping to make the logistics easier for them to meet, but Harry stayed in a hotel.
It was later reported Harry refused Charles’s offer because it did not come with adequate security.
This was a suggestion that bemused the King, who offered Harry digs at Buckingham Palace, one of the country’s most protected buildings.
King Charles ordered his son to return the keys to what was his UK base when making the rare transatlantic trip over.
And The Sun previously reported how Prince William supported the monarch's decision to strip his younger brother of estate access.
But the King and Harry could potentially patch up their differences at the Invictus Games, which is next staged in Canada in February and returns to the UK in 2027 in Birmingham.
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Some close to the King think he will want to support his son there.
A friend of Charles said: “I think he would acknowledge it would be a good thing to go to. He would not want to look punitive.”
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A timeline of Prince Harry and William's 'feud': Brothers 'at war'
In 2018, the Sun told how "simmering tension" began when William questioned the speed of Harry and Meghan's engagement.
The first hints of friction reportedly came after William was introduced to Meghan when she was staying at Kensington Palace.
Once she'd returned home to Canada, William and Harry sat down for a brother-to-brother chat.
He knew Harry was already head-over-heels for her but it has been claimed he advised him to take it slowly.
The younger prince reportedly didn't take too kindly to the advice, with one royal source saying he "went mental".
Then in June 2019 Harry and Meghan officially split off from the charity they shared with William and Kate.
The Royal Foundation will be divided between the Sussexes and Cambridges as the couples focus on their own separate charitable endeavours.
Prince William and Prince Harry first established the Royal Foundation in 2009 before Kate joined two years later shortly after their engagement was announced.
The trio would often appear together at events and the Foundation had huge successes with projects like the Invictus Games for injured veterans and the mental health Heads Together campaign.
The Royal Foundation said the decision was made following the conclusion of a review into its structure - but added both couples will continue to work together in the future.
Harry and Meg were living in close proximity to Kate and Wills within the Kensington Palace estate, but they switched to Frogmore Cottage in Windsor before baby Archie was born.
The move further increased rumours of a fallout.
Harry, 39, also hinted in his ITV documentary "Harry and Meghan, An African Journey" that he and his brother had grown apart.
It came after Prince Philip called Meghan the "D.O.W" after the Duchess of Windsor — the American divorcee who led Edward VIII to abdicate.
And he warned the late Queen to be "cautious" of Harry's then bride-to-be, a royal author claims.
Ingrid Seward revealed in new book My Mother And I that Prince Philip felt it was "uncanny...how much Meghan reminded him of the Duchess of Windsor".
In 2021, Harry and Meghan give their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey where Harry accused his dad of cutting him off financially.
Harry then jetted back to UK to join William in unveiling a statue to their mother Princess Diana in the grounds of Kensington Palace.
But sources claimed William didn’t want to attend the memorial amid their ongoing rift.
In 2022, just before their grandmother the Queen died, sources claimed Kate acts as a "peacemaker" between the brothers.
Last year Harry claimed his brother "knocked him to the floor" during an argument about Meghan.
In his book Spare, Harry said William branded Meghan "rude" and "difficult" during a row.
Harry alleged William "grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and … knocked me to the floor".
He said he was left with a visible injury to his back following the argument in 2019 at Nottingham Cottage on the grounds of Kensington Palace, where he was living at the time.
In January this year, Harry flew in to be with Charles after the monarch's shock cancer diagnosis.
Harry flew back to the US the following day - without seeing Wills.
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