Prince Harry says brother William physically attacked him after calling Meghan ‘difficult’ and rude’

Prince Harry has claimed that his brother William grabbed him by the neck and threw him to the ground during a heated argument about his wife Meghan Markle.

In an extraordinary excerpt from his forthcoming autobiography, Spare, Harry recalls what he describes as a physical attack by his brother, now the Prince of Wales, which he claims left him with visible injuries.

The furious dispute reportedly erupted at their London home in 2019, during which William is said to have called Meghan “difficult”, “rude” and “abrasive”.

Harry accused his brother of “repeating the press narrative” about his wife before a shouting match ensued that ended in a physical altercation.

The excerpt has been published by the Guardian. It is not known how the newspaper obtained an early copy of the book, as the publisher has done everything possible to prevent leaks.

In a dramatic excerpt, Harry writes that William ‘he grabbed me by the neck, ripped my collar, and… threw me to the ground.’ The Duke of Sussex claims that he was left with a visible back injury.

The brothers, according to Harry, had met to discuss ‘the whole rolling catastrophe’ of their relationship and fights with the press.

But the heir to the throne arrived at Nottingham Cottage “very hot”, writes Harry.

The Duke was living in the house, known as Nott Cott and located in the grounds of Kensington Palace, at the time of the alleged incident.

When they started arguing about Meghan, Harry claims that William wasn’t being rational, leading to a shouting match.

Harry said he told his brother he couldn’t understand why he wasn’t happy with being “the spare”, accusing his brother of acting like an heir. William told him that he was trying to help him.

Harry said, ‘Are you serious? Help me? I’m sorry, is that what you call this? Helping me?’

It was that comment, according to Harry, that angered William, causing him to swear as he walked towards him.

Harry said he was scared and retreated to the kitchen as William followed.

He claims he gave William a glass of water and said, ‘Willy, I can’t talk to you when you’re like this.’

He writes: ‘He left the water, called me by another name, then came to me. It all happened so fast. Very fast. He grabbed me by the neck, ripped my collar and threw me to the ground.

‘I landed in the dog bowl, which broke under my back, the pieces cut me. I stood there for a moment, stunned, then stood up and told her to come out.

It was then that William told his brother to hit him back, a reference to the fights they had as children, Harry writes.

The duke said that he refused to retaliate and that William left, before returning. ‘looking sorry’ and apologizing.

When the future king left for the last time, Harry claims that “He turned around and called her back: ‘You don’t need to tell Meg about this.’

Harry says he responded with: ‘You mean you attacked me?’

He says that William added, “I didn’t attack you, Harold.”

According to Harry, he did not tell Meghan about the fight, but called his therapist.

He writes that he informed Meghan of the altercation only when she noticed “scratches and bruises” on his back, adding that she was “not that shocked or angry” but was “terribly sad”.

The dramatic excerpt revealed just days before the book’s official release is likely to see a surge in sales.

It comes as Prince Harry’s tell-all memoir Spare already sits at No. 2 on Amazon’s best-seller list for pre-orders in North America and the UK.

The Duke of Sussex’s book, due to be published early next week, is expected to double down on his attacks on the royal family.

The spare is currently on sale for $22.40 on Amazon in the US and half the price of £14 on the UK site.

Spare’s hardback will be in UK bookstores when they open on Tuesday morning, with the eBook edition available to download on Kindle shortly after midnight the same day.

In the United States, which is five to eight hours behind Great Britain, it will be the evening of Monday, January 9, when copies of the e-book will be available on Kindle, at the same time that the clock strikes midnight on Tuesday night. morning in the UK.

Ultra-secure arrangements are in place, with the Duke and his publishers doing everything they can to ensure it is released simultaneously around the world next Tuesday.

Prince Harry has been secretly working on the book about his life in the royal family for more than a year as part of a $20 million book deal with Penguin Random House.

He has collaborated with Pulitzer Prize-winning ghostwriter JR Moehringer on a rare move from a senior member of the royal family. Moehringer will reportedly receive a payment of $1 million for his contribution.

Spare is published in 16 languages, including Chinese, Finnish, Hungarian, Spanish, and Portuguese, but in theory no one in any country will be able to get an advance copy.

While King Charles is able to avoid the worst of the duke’s wrath, the book is understood to contain damaging details about his bitter consequences with his brother, with William and his wife Kate coming under fire in its 416 pages.

Spare tells Harry’s story with “raw, unflinching honesty,” according to Penguin Random House.

Publishing sources said that the arrangements for the publication of Harry’s ‘explosive’ memoirs were closely guarded and handled in detail, with only a handful of top executives privy to the exact details.

Deliveries to bookstores are being scheduled at the last minute to prevent the leak of unauthorized copies. Guarded sites around the world have been secured to house copies of the book prior to distribution.

One compared the sophisticated security operation to the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in 2007, when JK Rowling was determined her young fans wouldn’t ruin the experience by learning the fate of the boy wizard before reading the seventh and final book. series novel.

An army of guards, satellite tracking systems and legal contracts were deployed to protect the first 10 million copies of the new Harry Potter book.

When the finished manuscript was carried by hand from London to New York, a lawyer for the American publisher sat on it during the flight.

When copies were sent to retailers, the trucks were equipped with satellite tracking systems that revealed if any of the vehicles strayed from their intended routes.

Prince Harry and Meghan are said to have signed a $20 million four-book deal with publishing giant Penguin Random House, with the fourth said to be an autobiography of the Duchess of Sussex.

It comes as the royal family is “completely exhausted” with the “flow of misinformation” from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, sources claim.

The comments come in the wake of Prince Harry’s publicity blitz for Spare, during which he claimed his family “has shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile.”

He also stated that he “would like to have my father and brother back” in previews of two interviews with ITV’s Tom Bradby and CBS’s Anderson Cooper that were released yesterday.

A royal told the Mirror: ‘It all feels very repetitive. Harry’s constant sniping is pretty tiring and he knows full well that they’re highly unlikely to engage in a tit-for-tat battle of words.

The book will be published just weeks after he and his wife Meghan published his Netflix series detailing their relationship and separation from the royal familywhile reports have surfaced that Meghan is also planning to release her own explosive memoir.

According to a source, the Duchess of Sussex “is contemplating being completely candid about her time in the royal spotlight…and leaving no stone unturned.”

Meghan has already launched her children’s book The Bench with the same publisher, and the couple are rumored to be working on a ‘wellness’ book.

The fourth mystery book is now believed to be the duchess’s autobiography.

It comes as royal sources dismissed suggestions by Prince Harry that his family has shown no desire to reconcile with him, saying King Charles invited him to visit Christmas.

The Duke of Sussex claimed that a potential reunion with his family across the pond did not appear to be in the cards, saying his father and brother had “absolutely no desire to reconcile”.

He made the claim in a trailer for an interview with ITV’s Tom Bradby, which he did as part of the publicity campaign for his new memoir, Spare, due out next week.

but those inside at Buckingham Palace have poured cold water on the claims, calling them “nonsense” and saying that Harry and his wife Meghan had a open invitation to join the rest of the Firm this Christmas.