Prince Harry sensationally claims he wasn’t actually William’s best man at 2011 wedding

Prince Harry has sensationally claimed that he was forced to accept his brother’s ‘blatant lie’ that he was best man at their 2011 wedding.

The duke revealed that his breakup with his older brother meant “Willy didn’t want him to give a best man speech,” according to his explosive memoir, Spare.

In an extraordinarily personal revelation, Harry claims he was forced to play the best man role to avoid embarrassment from Prince William’s two closest friends.

The duke was officially considered his brother’s best man at the wedding and even traveled with his father and future king to Westminster Abbey in a Bentley that day.

But in the latest in a series of ‘truth bombs’ dropped on the Royal Family, Harry declares the best man stunt was all for show and his brother’s friends James Meade and Thomas Van Staubenzee gave the traditional speech. in the reception.

In other claims, the Prince recounts how William met people who had gathered in the Mall at Buckingham Palace while he was “drunk on last night’s rum” just hours before his wedding to Kate.

Harry told him: ‘You smell like alcohol’ and then reportedly offered him mints as he rolled down the car windows, describing the smell of ‘the aftermath of last night’s rum’ on his ‘drunk’ brother’s breath.

His comments are the latest in his deeply personal war of words with William, whom he has already accused of shoving him over a dog bowl during a fiery fight at Nottingham Cottage in 2019.

Harry’s claims are the latest devastating barrage against his older brother, with William the central target of much of the duke’s wrath within Spare’s 557 pages.

Harry has also alleged that there was a falling out between him and the Prince of Wales after he called Meghan Markle “difficult”, “rude” and “abrasive”.

His book bomb claims that the standing line at Nottingham Cottage, his Kensington Palace apartment, ended with William grabbing him by the neck and throwing him to the ground, smashing a dog bowl. His back was scraped and bruised, he said.

Harry has spoken openly about wanting to reconcile with his father and brother, despite their extraordinary claims that have plunged the royal family into its worst crisis since their mother’s death in 1997.

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In a recently released clip from the upcoming ITV interview with Harry, the duke said his brother was so frustrated during the ‘Nott Cott’ incident that reportedly took place in 2019, he saw ‘red mist on him’.

“He wanted me to hit him back, but I decided against it,” he said of his brother. In the clip posted earlier today, Harry told his friend Mr Bradby: “What was different here was the level of frustration, and I’m talking about the red mist I had for so many years, and I saw this red mist in him.” . ‘

The short clip from the ITV interview, which will air on Sunday, also had Harry address Spare’s detailed drug use.

Bradby told the Duke: “There is a fair amount of drugs [in the book]. Marijuana, magic mushrooms, cocaine. I mean, that’s going to surprise people.

The duke seemed to agree, saying it was “important to acknowledge it.”

The royal also stated that she wants to reconcile with her family, something she says can’t happen without “some responsibility.”

‘I want reconciliation,’ he says, ‘but first there has to be some accountability.’ The duke also said: ‘The truth, supposedly, at this time, has only been one side of the story, right? But, there are two sides to every story.

Other rows have also cropped up in Harry’s book. William is said to have lashed out at Meghan after he insulted his wife during a meeting that was meant to “cool things off” between the couples.

The Prince and Princess of Wales invited Harry and Meghan to their apartment at Kensington Palace after a series of fights, including one in which Kate reportedly broke down in tears during a bridesmaid dress fitting. honor for charlotte

But the tea and biscuit conversation in June 2018, weeks after the Sussexes’ wedding in Windsor, escalated into another conflict because the Duchess of Sussex told Kate she must have a “baby brain because of her hormones,” according to Harry’s new memoir.

William then called Meghan “rude” to her face and “pointed a finger at her” and explained: “These things are not done here.” In an excerpt, laying bare the divide between the Sussexes and the Wales, Meghan told William: “If you don’t mind, keep your finger out of my face.”

Defending his wife, Harry writes in his new book: “Meg said she had never intentionally done anything to offend Kate and that if she had, she begged her to let her know so it wouldn’t happen again.”

Harry laid out in extraordinary detail the meeting with William and Kate in June 2018, which was an attempt to mend the growing rift between the Sussexes and the Wales.

But both couples would end up sharing more grievances instead of making things right.

She describes arriving at her Kensington Palace apartment and saying Meghan’s jaw dropped at the decor, the priceless art on the walls, the books and the furniture, saying “wow” repeatedly.

Harry said they had been thinking that their flat next door had Ikea lamps and furniture “which we had recently bought on sale with Meg’s credit card on sofa.com.”

Then they sat down to have a cup of tea and some biscuits where they asked about the children of the Wales, and they in turn had been asked about their honeymoon.

But after that, Meghan decided to bring up the issue of their relationship and the tensions dating back to when she started dating Harry, suggesting there was a wire crossing when Kate thought Meghan wanted to use her connections in the fashion industry, when in fact I already had it. own.

Meghan suggested these issues had been magnified by the wedding preparations and discussions over bridesmaids’ dresses.

Harry then claims that Kate became upset and demanded an apology from Meghan for offending her when she mentioned her hormones after giving birth and suggested that it had affected her memory. Meghan initially said she couldn’t remember, but later added: “I remember: you had forgotten something and I said it didn’t matter, it was because of the pregnancy.” Because you just had a child. Because of the hormones.

Harry said Kate then replied: “We’re not close enough for you to talk about my hormones.”

Meghan then said that she spoke to all of her friends that way and then William stepped in, pointed at the Duchess and said that was rude and that she was wrong to say it. Meghan then told her to stop pointing at her face.

Then the Duchess of Sussex is said to have stated that she did not want to offend Kate. They all hugged each other and left, Harry said, because they thought it better to go home rather than keep rowing.