A vintage photo of Prince William, Harry and father King Charles III has resurfaced to mark Father's Day. The sweet picture has been shared to the Royal Family's Twitter page on Sunday, alongside two others of royal fathers in celebration of the annual holiday.
Despite ongoing tensions between his His Majesty's youngest son and the royal family, he has been included in the touching tribute. The post's caption read: "To Dads everywhere, we wish you a very special Father’s Day today."
The first photograph depicts King Charles III with the late Prince Philip and the second depicts Queen Camilla and father Major Bruce Shand, reports the Mirror.
Taken in 1997 at Falls of Muick on the Balmoral estate in Scotland, the third picture shows a teenage Harry and William exploring with their father, who sports a green kilt. A separate picture shared on William and Kate's Twitter page shows the happy prince surrounded by his three children Charlotte, Louis and George in matching blue outfits.
Reports of a rift between Harry and William are not new, with the former previously alleging in his memoir Spare that the brothers got into a physical altercation. The now Prince of Wales is said to have arrived at Harry's Nottingham Cottage home to talk about their relationship already "piping hot", with their pair shouting over each other in the squabble.
Harry then dismissed his brother's claims he was trying to help and went to the kitchen where he told him "Willy, I can’t speak to you when you’re like this". The Duke writes in the passage from the book: "He set down the water, called me another name, then came at me.
"It all happened so fast. So very fast. He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor. I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out.”
William reportedly asked his brother not to tell Meghan about the confrontation in the aftermath, resulting in Harry saying: “You mean that you attacked me?”, to which he responded: “I didn’t attack you, Harold.”
Harry said he did not immediately tell his wife about the incident but she had later noticed “scrapes and bruises” on his back. During the argument William is said to have called Megan "difficult", "rude" and "abrasive" – comments which the younger brother said parroted “the press narrative” about his wife.
Another revelation made in the book suggests King Charles joked on the day of Prince Harry’s birth at his joy of having an “heir and a spare”. The bombshell claims were made amid reports the relationship between the two brothers had soured after Harry stepped down as a senior royal in 2020.
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