DAN WOOTTON: William is right to snub Harry during the Coronation

With each revelation of yet another capitulation to the destructive Prince Harry, I go from thinking King Charles is weak and gullible to admitting he’s just a broken father doing everything he can to get his wayward son back on the side to prevent him from embarrassing his family and the country on an international scale.

What I respect 100 percent, however, is the iron determination of our heir to the throne, Prince William, to do away with the Duke of Delusion.

During his forthcoming solo coronation visit, Harry will be subjected to his older brother’s ruthless silent treatment.

There will be no reconciliation talks; certainly not the public or private apologies that Harry and Meghan laughably demanded until a few weeks ago.

The strategy behind the Prince of Wales monarch, whom Harry described as his “nemesis” in Spare, is twofold.

Understandably, he remains furious at Harry’s behavior over the past three years, but especially since the late Queen’s death seven months ago, when the Sussexes used their anti-Commonwealth Netflix series and the publication of the hateful autobiography Spare to push the British monarchy to inflict maximum damage. during some of the darkest hours.

That’s before you get to his palpable anger that Meghan also used two major TV platforms to slander his beloved wife Kate, knowing that as the future queen it was impossible for her to fight back in any way to reveal the truth.

But much more than any personal bitterness, William now feels the hands of history on his shoulders as heir to the throne.

He knows full well that, for the future of the monarchy, next month’s coronation simply cannot be overshadowed by the constant distractions caused by Harry and Meghan.

Unfathomable to William, his egotistical brother already managed to tell the funerals of the late Queen and Prince Phillip — not to mention the otherwise gorgeous Platinum Jubilee — plenty of his and Meghan’s never-ending psychodrama, causing untold stress among their older relatives.

Well, not this time.

William is determined that the focus should be solely on his father as he is formally crowned King Charles III.

As sad as this may seem, it means there’s a significant PR risk in agreeing to a simple conversation with his brother, even one that consists only of pleasant small talk.

After all, trust between senior members of the royal family and the Sussexes has been so damaged that they will no longer meet only with Harry or Meghan for fear they could be leaked to the US media with a negative or unfair slant. further affect the monarchy.

In recent months, the potential that Harry would sidestep the established US media to use their toxic family business to further his commercial ventures has become a harsh reality.

That touched the shock and horror of royal courtiers at Harry’s abhorrent decision to include word-for-word quotes from the grief-stricken king immediately after his own father’s funeral to make a dramatic chapter in his lecherous book .

Until now, in moments of family significance, William has tried to put the bitterness aside, at least in public.

In particular, there was the tense appearance at Kensington Palace to unveil the statue of their mother Princess Diana and the joint public walk outside Windsor Castle, which Kate is said to have described as one of the hardest things she’s ever had to do, according to a recent report. book by top royal author Robert Jobson.

On each of these occasions, William rightly feels that the goodwill has been thrown in his face, while at the same time creating more headlines about the desperately intense feud.

This time he is determined not to fall into the same trap; the stakes are simply too high.

The decision for Meghan to stay home, which I believe is due to her innate fear of being booed by an angry British public, has at least made the scenario easier to navigate.

William and his team were initially concerned that the presence of the former Hollywood actress alongside her husband at her coronation would create a major distraction, with genuine concerns that the couple’s time together in London would surpass the King with a public appearance to the awake brand they want to illustrate. to enforce on the royal family.

With Harry appearing alone, it’s highly unlikely he’ll attempt anything similar, with suggestions that he’ll stay in the UK for a few hours to quietly attend the service himself, before immediately returning to California to celebrate his son’s fourth birthday. Archie to celebrate. party.

But while Charles has at least partially reconciled after a phone call with Harry, the time has now passed for William and Kate to continue taking risks with the Sussexes and further jeopardizing their own reputations.

Every olive branch has been thrown in their faces with a brutal brutality that can only come from a duo bent on causing maximum disruption and effectively overthrowing the monarchy as we know it, despite the overwhelming respect of the British public, even after the death of the deceased queen.

Harry and Meghan don’t want Charles and William to succeed in their post-Elizabethan reinvention of the royal family; they want to undermine Britain’s great traditions of which they are no longer a part.

Naturally, one has sympathy for the king’s predicament as a loving father.

But I believe it is William and Kate who have read the acute mood of the Sussexes much more closely.

The time has come to stop giving in to their huge egos and realize that there is nothing to be gained by giving in to their ridiculous demands and stupidly entertaining talk of formal apologies to Meghan.

Only a closeness to the royal family will keep the Sussexes in business in Hollywood and they’ve lost their right to it.

When even Mia Farrow, the liberal Hollywood actress who used to be one of their staunchest defenders, admits to being “tired” of the couple, you know it’s game over.

So William’s silent treatment is not harsh; it is morally and strategically best to defeat Harry and Meghan’s ridiculous downfall of the British monarchy. It’s also the least this couple earns, after the damage they’ve done over the past three years.