Prince Harry is joking.
The Duke of Sussex reportedly dug up the difficult brother in a tense relationship with his own brother Prince William while attending a reception in the UK on Monday.
Hello! Magazine 17-year-old Welchild Award winner Declan Bitmeade was talking to Prince Harry ahead of the 2025 Welchild Awards.
When Bitmead said he had a younger brother in the royal family, the author of “Spare” replied, “Will he make you mad?”
When Bitmead said he was getting better, Harry said, “What do you know, you know your siblings.”
Later, after learning that Bitmead and his siblings attended the same school, the two’s fathers commented, “it makes it more challenging at times.”
Prince Harry has been a patronage of Welchild, a British national charity that supports children with severe illness since 2007, and in his 2023 memoir, Spare, Harry claimed he wanted to act like he didn’t know when he attended Eton College, a private boys’ boarding school.
He later told Anderson Cooper that he hurt him in a “60 minute interview.”
“I couldn’t understand that,” Harry recalls. “I said, ‘What do you mean? We’re at the same school now. I’ve never seen you in years. Now we’re hanging out together.”
“He said, ‘No, no, when we’re in school, we don’t know each other,” he continued. “And I took it personally.”
The brothers have been estranged for years, and recent hopes for a reconciliation were crushed on Monday.
Kensington Palace announced that Will, 43, will be booked with royal engagement this Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, according to British Outlet GN News.
Harry will return to his country to attend the Welchild Awards and will be visiting the community recording studio in Nottingham on Tuesday.
So, 40, Harry will announce substantial donations to children needed to support their work against violence against youth.
Harry soloed the trip without his wife Meghan Markle and their two children, six, Lillivet and four, but Harry’s friends said earlier this month that Harry “has not given up on his hopes of bringing his family back to the UK.”
“He wants to show his kids where he grew up,” said a friend. “He wants to know their family here. He really wants to come back to England more.”
