<p id=”par-1_50″>For years, everyone thought that <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/prince-harry/?swcfpc=1″>Prince Harry</a> had a great relationship with his brother’s <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/royal-commentator-says-husbands-should-not-prince-william-kate-middleton-public-avoid-tension.html/”>wife</a>, the Princess of Wales (<a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/dont-be-fooled-this-is-what-kate-middleton-was-really-like-in-school.html/”>formerly known as Kate Middleton</a>). They were all smiles every time they were photographed and always looked like they were having a good time and enjoyed doing royal engagements together. </p>
<p id=”par-2_38″>But in <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/prince-harrys-memoir-spare-now-become-one-most-discarded-books-time.html/”>Harry’s memoir <em>Spare</em></a> and what he has said since stepping down as a working royal, the Duke of Sussex revealed that he and <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/prince-william/?swcfpc=1″>Prince William</a> grew apart and weren’t always as tight as everyone thought. </p>
<p id=”par-3_30″>Now, a royal author is claiming that started after William and Kate tied the knot and the Prince of Wales became all about the Middleton family, which baffled Harry. </p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-author-says-prince-harry-mourned-the-loss-of-his-bond-with-william-after-he-married-kate”>Author says Prince Harry ‘mourned’ the loss of his bond with William after he married Kate</h2>
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<p id=”par-4_36″>Tina Brown is the former editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker as well as the founder of The Daily Beast and Talk Magazine. She was also one of the late Princess Diana’s confidants. </p>
<p id=”par-5_44″>In her book <em>The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor, the Truth and the Turmoil</em>, Brown spoke with some staffers who worked at the Palace and witnessed the shift in William and Harry’s relationship after the older prince and Kate said “I do.”</p>
<p id=”par-6_37″>“Though they were still incredibly close, living next door to each other [at Kensington Palace], sharing the same office, and hanging out an awful lot, Harry mourned his us-against-the-world bond with William,” Brown wrote per <a href=”https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/2039519/prince-harry-view-on-middleton-family?int_source=nba” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Express</a>. </p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-the-duke-of-sussex-thought-the-bougie-middletons-were-boring”>The Duke of Sussex thought the ‘bougie’ Middletons were ‘boring’</h2>
<p id=”par-7_29″>Brown also discussed what she heard from Palace insiders about Harry’s feelings towards his brother’s in-law’s who William loved like his own family and enjoyed spending time with. </p>
<p id=”par-8_42″>According to Brown’s book, “Harry felt displaced by their bougie family unit, and couldn’t understand his brother’s obsession with his Middleton in-laws, whose Bucklebury world bored Harry to tears. They had become a tight unit, and William a full-on Windsor country bumpkin.</p>
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<p id=”par-9_47″>“On weekends when he wasn’t chez Middleton, he was tramping the grounds of Anmer Hall, the red-brick Georgian mansion on the Sandringham Estate that the queen gave the couple as a wedding present, wearing a flat cap and tweed jacket like his ‘turnip toff’ Norfolk farmer friends.”</p>
<p id=”par-10_40″>Managing Editor of Majesty Magazine, Joe Little, elaborated on that and discussed how even though he was a royal, William was able to fit in with the Middletons and got along so well with them even before marrying Kate. </p>
<p id=”par-11_86″>“William [fit] into the Middleton family very quickly and they took to him as a future son-in-law,” Little said. “I think also a bit of stability and grounding and a bit of normality that William perhaps wasn’t too familiar with when growing up because clearly his parents’ marriage was facing difficulties when he was a child and he was very aware of that and eventually their marriage disintegrated. With the Middletons, he got stability and a bit of normality, so for that William will forever be grateful.”</p>