Royal Family News: Prince William Ruled By Duty And Prince Harry Is Guided By Love

Royal Family followers know Prince William resides in London and Prince Harry is immersed in California life but the distance between the brothers is greater than the Atlantic Ocean.

“The rift gets more serious with every passing day,” royal watcher Robert Lacey told The Post about the widening gulf between the heir and the spare. Lacey has written “Battle of Brothers: William and Harry: The Inside Story of a Family in Tumult” and according to him the gully between the bros has never been wider or deeper.

Royal Family News: Robert Lacey Asserts That Princes William And Harry Are Far From Patching Things Up

The author is such an authority on all things royal that he moonlights as a historical consultant to Netflix’s “The Crown.” “The chickens have come home to roost,” he said of the once close brothers. “We thought the disorder, chaos, and tragedy of the ’80s and ’90s involving their parents were over. Now [it’s all] come back to life in the shape of these two boys. They are the legacy of all that heartache.”

The disorder he refers to is the 1981 “fairy-tale” wedding of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer, their adulterous conduct, wretched divorce, and Diana’s premature and tragic death.

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Lacey makes an interesting point when he says that, “They both talk about the importance of mental health and acknowledge they are psychologically fragile. But they coped with it in different ways.”

He thinks that William, “took the lesson of duty,” while Harry took the opposite path. “His attitude was: ‘Well, I’m not going to make the same mistake as my parents, I’m marrying for love. And he’s been so happy and proud to proclaim he loved Meghan virtually from the moment he met her in 2016. That impulse has guided him.”

And he wishes that Harry’s wife Meghan Markle was still a working member of the royal family. “We welcomed a mixed-race member into the family but, 30 months later, she’s not royal anymore. I think they missed an incredible opportunity there.”

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Lacey goes on to say, “Everyone thought Harry was going to marry a nice girl called Henrietta or Annabel and go live in the countryside. Instead, he finds Meghan, full of American piss and vinegar, energy, and independence of thought. If you bring into the old-fashioned, creaking structure of the House of Windsor someone who is a crusader, dedicated to women’s rights and social change, she isn’t going to give up those qualities.” That is one way to describe Meghan, certainly.

He adds, “When she came over to Britain, she thought it was a new platform. Whereas the royal family didn’t see themselves as offering her a platform at all.”

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So where does Lacey see the brothers in the near future? “It’s looking less and less likely for a reconciliation,” he said. “I don’t see a way back in for Harry, not into the working royal family.”

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