Prince Harry apparently got a cold shoulder from Prince William just hours before the death of their grandmother Queen Elizabeth II.
According to journlist Omid Scobie’s bombshell tell-all “Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival,” Harry’s texts to his brother went unanswered as he was trying to make arrangements to say goodbye to the late monarch during her declining health.
“William ignored him,” a family source tells Scobie, per an advance copy obtained by Page Six.
“He clearly didn’t want to see his brother.”
After being left unanswered, Harry claims he was forced to charter a private plane for himself that cost $30,000.
William was already on the way to Queen Elizabeth on a jet with Prince Edward and his wife, Sophie.
Harry apparently had no idea his grandmother had already passed when the plane took off. Buckingham palace had also announced the Queen’s death to the public while he was still in the air as well.
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“Harry was crushed. His relationship with the Queen was everything to him. She would have wanted him to know before it went out to the world,” a friend of the Duke of Sussex tells Scobie.
“They could have waited just a little longer, it would have been nothing in the grand scheme of things, but no one respected that at all.”
Harry and William had been feuding since the former royal and his wife, Meghan Markle, stepped back from the family back in 2020.
Tensions were said to be at an all time high in January after the release of Harry’s memoir, “Spare” in which he claimed that William physically attacked him.
As of late, the Sun reported that the Prince of Wales “won’t shed a tear” if Harry and Markle, 42, decide to skip the royal tradition of Christmas at Sandringham again.
“Harry’s absence from the celebrations at Sandringham will be painfully obvious,” royal commentator Jennie Bond told the outlet.
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“Little Archie and Lilibet should be running around with their many cousins, pulling crackers, opening presents and understanding their place in the family, connecting with their relatives even though their lives are thousands of miles away.”
“But that’s not going to happen,” she added. “I don’t think William will be shedding a tear over this.
“Deep down, I’m sure he still loves Harry, but I don’t think he can see a way out of the rift that has opened between them.”
