Kate & Harry’s BROKEN BOND

After years of closeness, Prince Harry’s friendship with sister-in-law Kate Middleton has frayed

His book wasn’t due out for another six days. But on Jan. 4, The Guardian newspaper leaked some of the juiciest and most jaw-dropping bits from Prince Harry’s long-anticipated memoir, Spare. The Duke of Sussex alleges brother Prince William arrived at his home in 2019 piping hot,” criticized newlywed Harry’s wife, Meghan Markle, as difficult,” rude” and abrasive,” then physically attacked Harry who refused to fight back in the kitchen and knocked me to the floor,” scraping and bruising his back as he landed on a dog bowl that shattered. Hours later, Page Six released Harry’s claim that William and wife Princess Kate not only encouraged him to wear a Nazi costume instead of a pilot’s uniform to a 2005 party achoice that sparked a huge scandal but also howled with laughter” when they sawhim init.

Harry’s clearly pulling no punches. And Kate’s onceclose relationship with her brother-in-law has now become collateral damage amid a deepening feud with William. The dynamics in Kate and Harry’s friendship changed shortly before he married Meghan,” explains an insider, pointing to drama that erupted between the women days ahead of the 2018 wedding see sidebar). As time went on, things got worse as Harry began to claim that rival palace households were planting and leaking negative stories” about him and his wife including some that made Kate look better