
“There’s been a lot of talk in the press about rifts with your brother. How much of that is true?”
When ITV journalist Tom Bradby posed the question to Prince Harry in documentary, Harry & Meghan: An African Journey, it was clear the response – no matter the content – was going to generate headlines.
But few could have expected what followed.
“Erm… Part of this role and part of this job, and this family being under the pressure it’s under, inevitably stuff happens,” the prince said. “But, look, we’re brothers, we’ll always be brothers. We’re certainly on different paths at the moment. But I will always be there for him, as I know he’ll always be there for me.”
Watch a snippet from the interview in ITV documentary, Harry & Meghan: An African Journey. Post continues after.
No denial, no official Palace-spun statement. “Stuff happens” “On different paths”. It was as close to a straight ‘yes’ as you could expect from a media-savvy public figure.
The fracturing of the brothers’ relationship is, it seems, more than just ‘press reports’.
Harry and William’s public separation.
With the 2018 wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the face of the Royal family changed. Alongside Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, the young couples represented a new generation of royalty, a modern quartet set to reinvigorate public enthusiasm for the monarchy.
A first appearance together for their joint charity The Royal Foundation in early 2018, even saw them dubbed ‘the fab four’ by the British press. The refreshingly relaxed Q&A forum was due to be an annual event.
But in a matter of months, divisions emerged.

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If there is a 'rift' then I think these lovely boys can deal with it! Family is so hard, sometimes people just need a break. Harry is newly married, they both have their own family and their own work, yes it may look different now to the public because they're not in each other's pockets 24/7 but maybe they're just grown & living their own lives?!
Who knows what’s really going on.
But I did notice Kate’s behaviour during the wedding. She often talked throughout the ceremony, wasn’t looking their way during key parts and didn’t look all too interested. She also wore a dress she’d worn a few times before - I know she is known to do that, but an odd choice for her only brother in laws wedding. As someone who is well aware of the cameras and her influence I found in it odd, and that perhaps a sign that she wasn’t supportive of them as a couple.
Most people interpreted it as an attempt to make sure that the media focus was on Meghan’s dress, rather than reporting on Kate’s outfit. It doesn’t cost much to give people the benefit of the doubt.
Because she re-wore a dress to a wedding it meant she was "unsupportive of them as a couple"? Really? I would have thought it had more to do with a) Kate being postpartum, having given birth to Louis mere weeks prior to the wedding, and b) it just being a freaking dress, not a "secret signal".
Maybe that was the case regarding the dress. But constantly talking and looking away whilst wedding vowels were exchanged was strange.
Were you actually at the wedding? Because most of the cameras - providing us plebs with our vantage point of the wedding - were focussed on the marrying couple when they were exchanging their vows (and other critical moments), not William and Kate, or anyone else. Sounds like you're creatively interpreting a few moments of edited footage to me. Furthermore, have you ever been to a wedding in which people HAVEN'T talked?