'IT'S ME OR HARRY!

After months of soul-searching, the heir apparent has laid down a final demand

King Charles is so desperate to smooth things over with Prince Harry that it may come at the cost of his relationship with his elder son.

Prince William is understood to be feeling “betrayed” by ongoing talks from his 74-yearold father’s court over how to make sure Harry and his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, attend the coronation amid fears the fractured family dynamic could overshadow Charles’ rule.

“Th ere’s a lot of chatter about how bad the optics could be if Harry and Meghan don’t come, but no one’s stopped to think about how William feels to have to share a bench at Westminster with the two very people who have caused so much pain to his family,” a palace insider tells Woman’s Day.

“William, along with his wife and even his kids, were the ones most damaged by Harry’s book and interviews, not Charles. William can’t understand why his father would so willingly subject him and Kate to coming face to face with the Sussexes in front of the watching world.”