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Princess Diana’s former butler has questioned whether William giving him more sausages for breakfast as a child played a role in their troubled relationship as adults.
Paul Burrell claims that the Duke of Sussex got confused and complained as a young man that his older brother ate larger breakfasts.
The 64-year-old claims that after the young prince once asked why, a nanny for the couple told him the now-Prince of Wales needed to “fill out more” as he would be “King one day.”
Burrell, who acted as butler to the Princess of Wales for 10 years, said it could have been an early display of the dynamic between the two feuding brothers that dominates today.
Prince William (right) pictured with Prince Harry (left) on the balcony of Buckingham Palace during the RAF Centenary in 2018
Paul Burrell, Princess Diana’s former butler, pictured here on Good Morning Britain in 2022
Burrell, who was around during William and Harry’s childhood, said there were signs of an early rivalry between the princes.
“When I look back now, I think maybe I was getting a glimpse of the dynamic at play,” he told the Sun.
‘Once I saw the nursemaid give William three sausages for breakfast and Harry had two.
‘And Harry would look at his plate and say, how come he has three? And I only have two.
Mr Burrell added that when the nanny responded about the pecking order between the two siblings, the now Duke of Sussex would “keep quiet and put up with it”.
The former member of the Royal House said that despite Diana seeing the children as “absolutely equal”, she believes that the hierarchy within the Firm that puts William first has caused Harry resentment.
He said that the duke “found it difficult to measure up to the standard set by William” and that this was made more severe when he attended Eton against his mother’s wishes.
Burrell said that Diana had felt that Harry would be unfairly compared to his older brother if he attended the independent school, which it turned out to be.
The father-of-two said William was ‘brighter’ than his younger brother, and that while the future king was ‘restrained and stoic’, Harry played the clown for attention.
He added that he no longer recognizes the Harry who is in the public eye today with the boy he saw growing up in the Royal House, saying: “He’s clearly hurt and angry at being ‘the spare’ and so he’s lashing out at it.” . place.’
Harry, pictured here during an interview with ITV’s Tom Bradby earlier this month, has shown early signs of being unhappy with his position, says Paul Burrell.
Paul Burrell, pictured here with Diana in 1997, served the Princess of Wales as her butler for 10 years.
Meanwhile, Mr Burrell claimed that the relationship between the Fab Four, the Sussexes and the Cambridges, worsened due to “envy of the house”.
She claimed that Meghan, then living in Nottingham Cottage while the Cambridges were at Kensington Palace, “saw everything that Kate and William enjoyed…she realized it wasn’t on the top tier.”
Harry recently revealed that he was “embarrassed” to show Meghan his house and that his future wife compared it to a “frat house”.
It comes after the Duke of Sussex lashed out at Mr Burrell in his recently published memoir, Spare, which also saw him launch vicious attacks on his brother and the monarchy.
In the book, which was released in the UK on Tuesday, Harry accused Diana’s former butler of “milking” her death for money by publishing his 2001 book A Royal Duty.
The novel contained a number of private revelations, although in his memoirs Harry called it “the self-justifying, self-centered version of events”.
Harry said he found out about the book while working as an unpaid laborer in Australia at the age of 19, adding that it “made my blood boil”.
He wrote that he wanted to fly home to ‘confront’ Mr Burrell about his ‘cold and open betrayal’, but his father and brother talked him out of it.
Speaking last week after the publication of Harry’s memoirs, Burrell said Diana would be “appalled” by her youngest son’s behaviour, and accused Harry of making “vindictive, personal revelations”.
He added that he saw Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, as the driving force behind the duke’s behaviour.
He told Australian television: “She [Meghan] is by your side directing you on your way. You can’t just blame Harry. You have to blame both of them.
“I don’t like to see the rug being pulled under the feet of our King and Harry’s brother, who is on his way to be King. And the snipes that got ahead of Kate [the Princess of Wales]…
‘Kate has never put a foot wrong. But the other side of the story will never be heard because the royals believe there is great dignity in silence.