Prince William has read ‘only passages’ from Prince Harry’s memoir Spare and ‘ignored’ his brother’s attempts to spark a conversation through a mutual friend, Omid Scobie claims.
In his new book ‘End Game’, royal author Omid Scobie delves into the relationship between Prince William and Prince Harry, following the Duke of Sussex’s memoir, which hit shelves in January.
In a chapter on the Prince of Wales, Scobie recounts meeting one of the royal family’s former aides and asking him if William and Kate had learned of the “difficulties of being a reserve for the heir.”
The source said: ‘[Prince William] has read passages, but not the full…
‘Harry’s experience is very different [that of William’s] own children.’
Omid Scobie delves into Prince William and Prince Harry’s relationship in the wake of the Duke of Sussex’s memoir, which hit shelves in January
Elsewhere in the book, Scobie claims that Prince Harry tried to contact his brother twice while in London.
At the time, the royal family’s memoir had only been out for a few weeks, and his attempts to contact Prince William fell on deaf ears.
Scobie claims: ‘In February and March the prince turned to a mutual friend in London to try to spark a conversation with his brother, but those attempts were ignored.
‘Harry, a source said, chose to ‘remain focused on the future, not the past.’
Prince Harry made a series of damaging claims about his brother in his memoirs – including detailing an alleged incident in which Prince William ‘punched him into a dog bowl which burst and cut his back’ at the Kensington Palace estate.
Furthermore, the Duke of Sussex also claimed that the Prince and Princess of Wales ‘told him’ to wear the infamous Nazi fancy dress costume and ‘cried with laughter’ when they saw him in it.
While promoting his memoir in January, Prince Harry invited him The Daily Telegraph‘s Bryony Gordon to the family’s home in Montecito, where he revealed he was “worried” about the Prince and Princess of Wales’ children.
He said at the time: ‘And although William and I have spoken about it once or twice, and he has made it very clear to me that his children are not my responsibility.
Pictured: The cover art for Prince Harry’s memoir Spare, which hit shelves in January and sent shockwaves through the royal family
“I still feel a responsibility knowing that of those three kids, at least one will end up like me, the backup. And that hurts, that worries me.’
In Spare, Prince Harry claimed that on the day he was born, King Charles said to his late mother: ‘Great! Now you have given me an heir and a spare – my work is done.”
In a scathing chapter dedicated to the future queen, Scobie called Kate the “last shiny thing for years to come” and claims her workload is lower than that of other senior members of the Firm, saying she is “technically a part-time working royal family is’. ‘.
Known for his sympathetic reporting on Harry and Meghan, Scobie added that Kate is not known for “leadership and outgoing nature” like “Meghan,” who was “another glittering ornament in the royal family tree” before she stepped down.
According to Scobie’s recollection, this meant that coverage of Meghan’s engagements during her short time as a working royal was “much less about fashion choices and more about her work or her role in the firm.”
Scobie also claims that Kate “does not plan to increase her workload for the next 10 to 15 years,” or until her children are adults, adding that she was nicknamed “Katie Keen” because press reports from the palace told her do less by saying she is ‘eager to learn’.
In an apparent swipe, Scobie writes that Kate’s lifestyle is something most parents “could only dream of” and that Palace aides were afraid of forcing her into something that “made her uncomfortable” before the Queen died.
He adds that the future queen has had five different private secretaries in six years, as they all found the role “uninspiring and frustrating”.