Princess Diana’s bodyguard reveals how Prince Harry taunted his brother William when they were boys

Prince Harry used to tease his older brother during childhood fights, telling him, “It’s okay with you, you’re going to be king one day and I’m not, so I can do whatever I want.”

The ‘extraordinary’ exchange was revealed today by former royal protection officer Ken Wharfe amid the explosive fallout from the Duke of Sussex’s autobiography.

In his controversial book Spare, which was leaked ahead of publication next week and also out earlier in the UK, Harry dropped new ‘truth bombs’ at his family, from allegations that his brother assaulted him in a fight over Meghan to claims that William and his father Carlos confronted him after Prince Philip’s funeral ‘picking a fight’.

But today Mr Wharfe revealed how Prince Harry knew from the age of ‘six or seven’ that he was always going to ‘play second fiddle’ to his older brother William – and even bragged to his brother that he could do ‘what I want’ as he would not be king.

Princes Harry and William used to have fiery fights when they were kids. They are pictured in their uniforms for Harry’s first day of school at Wetherby School, Notting Hill, in 1989, accompanied by his late mother, Princess Diana, left.

“When they were young princes, fighting each other in Kensington Palace, Harry was always the popular guy. He was the one they referred to as “the magician, the entertainer,” Wharfe told Sky News.

Both Diana and her father recognized him. I think William, at the time, was quite jealous of his younger brother’s popularity.

‘To say that they knew nothing of who they were was, of course, fiction. They knew exactly who they were. And Harry always knew he was going to play second fiddle to his brother in the future.’

The retired royal bodyguard described an “extraordinary conversation” between the two rival princes, on a weekend drive to Highgrove.

Harry, about “six or seven years old” at the time, had been arguing with his brother in the back of the car, driven by their mother Princess Diana, as a babysitter tried to “referee” the confrontation, Wharfe claimed.

Meghan, Harry, William and Kate watch a flight to mark the centenary of the Royal Air Force in 2018

Despite clashes as children, the brothers had been close. But relations have collapsed since Harry’s explosive autobiography and recent documentary series on Netflix. The couple appears in 1991 with their mother Diana in Ontario, Canada.

Former royal protection officer Ken Wharfe described an ‘extraordinary conversation’ between the two young princes, when Harry was around six out of seven years old and mocked his brother for being the future king. Mr Wharfe, pictured right with Princess Diana

“Suddenly, when there was peace and quiet, Harry leaned over and said to William: ‘It’s all right with you, you’re going to be king one day and I’m not. So I can do what I want,'” Wharfe said. saying.

“That was about 30 years ago and that’s exactly what he’s doing now.”

News of the showdown comes Prince Harry was criticized by “appalled” royal experts after leaked copies of his memoirs revealed more jaw-dropping attacks by the Duke of Sussex on the royal family.

The prince, who stepped down as a royal and moved to California with Meghan in search of more privacy, recalls family feuds and intimate conversations in excruciating detail.

Presenting his brother as his ‘arch-nemesis’ and Charles as an emotionally stunted and ineffective ‘old man’, he wrote that he feared Queen Consort Camilla would become an ‘evil stepmother’ and revealed his father’s medical ailments and the fact that the King still carries his favorite teddy bear with him.

The late Queen’s former press secretary, Dickie Arbiter, called Harry’s autobiography “a load of nonsense” and “spiteful”, while ITV presenter Lorraine Kelly admitted that her “toes will never untwist after the duke revealed he lost his virginity to a cougar outside a pub when he was 17.

Prince Harry’s tell-all memoir Spare hits UK shelves next week, with some stores opening at midnight.

Prince Harry has also faced backlash from military veterans for violating an “unwritten rule” after claiming to have killed 25 Taliban fighters while in Afghanistan.

The revelation has left a sour taste in the mouths of his former comrades, after the Duke of Sussex wrote that he had neither pride nor regret for shooting extremists – and admitted that in the midst of battle he thought of his targets not as ‘people’ but as ‘chess pieces’ that had been removed from the board.

Former army chief Colonel Richard Kemp called Harry’s comments “misjudged” and said soldiers are not trained to regard their targets as “subhuman”, while former national security adviser Lord Darroch said that he would have warned the duke not to reveal his kill count.

Mr Wharfe told Sky News the Prince’s autobiography was “already causing big problems” ahead of its publication in the UK next week.

“I find that quite sad because I think deep down he really didn’t want to leave the Royal Family,” she added.

“But I think any chance of returning to the UK as a working member of the British royal family is long gone.”

Buckingham Palace has yet to respond to Harry’s book, which hits stores from Tuesday, two days after his interview with ITV on Sunday night, at 9pm.