Harry 'full of regrets and what-ifs'

Following the bombshell news of the Princess of Wales' cancer diagnosis, Prince Harry is likely to be wishing he could turn back time, a royal expert tells new

- Mitya Underwood

As the world reels from Kate Middleton's news that she is being treated for cancer, Prince Harry will be full of regret over the damaged state of their once close relationship, a royal expert claims.

Duncan Larcombe, a royal biographer and former royal editor, told us the Princess of Wales, 42, was once like "the sister Harry never had" and the shocking news of her diagnosis has likely left him wishing he could "turn the clock back".

Relations between Harry, 39, his sister-in-law Kate and his brother Prince William, 41, have "collapsed" in recent years, Duncan said, in the wake of the Sussexes airing the royal family's private dramas in public.

Kate, in particular, was dragged into a number of scandals by Harry and Meghan during their interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021, and in Harry's memoir Spare, which came out last year.

The book included accusations that Kate made Meghan, 42, cry in the lead-up to the Sussexes wedding, and claimed Kate felt she was "forced to compete" with her American sister-in-law.