MEGHAN and Harry will never be forgiven by William and Kate as they caused so much pain, a royal expert has revealed.
Charles Rae, the legendary former royal correspondent, appeared on The Sun’s Royal Exclusive program for the second time to talk to The Sun’s royal editor Matt Wilkinson.
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The state of the tense relationship between the royal brothers was a hot topic of discussion, especially whether the Sussexes or the Waleses should take the first step towards trying to reconcile.
Charles said: “Well, I think it’s up to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to make the first move.
“Whether or not it would be accepted by William and Catherine, I very much doubt it would be.
“There’s a lot of water that went under that bridge.
“After everything Harry and Meghan did with the Oprah Winfrey interview, that Netflix show… [Harry’s book] Save. Meghan’s extravagant bow on the show, too.
“There’s a lot going on under the bridge right now.
“If they are going to make the decision, I’m not so sure William and Catherine would respond favorably.
Charles added: “William has a lot more on his mind right now than sorting out issues with his own brother. He has his wife to look after and his three children.
“These are the most important things that are happening.
“If Harry was so interested in making some kind of move on William… he didn’t wish him a happy 42nd birthday.
He added: “Any breakdown in any family is very, very sad. They are doing this under the glare of publicity and this is obviously ten times worse than you fighting with your brother or sister.
“But Harry caused a lot of pain to several members of the Royal Family, his father, his brother, his sister-in-law.”
Matt then raised the possibility that someone could meet the two brothers in the middle, in an attempt to bring them back together.
Charles said: “I don’t think that’s going to happen and I suspect that one of the driving forces in not making that happen is Meghan herself.
“I’m not trying to blame her for everything.
“I don’t blame her for everything, but I don’t think the things she’s doing help it matter.”
A timeline of Prince Harry and William’s ‘rivalry’: Brothers ‘at war’
In 2018, the Sun told how the “simmering tension” began when William questioned the speed of Harry and Meghan’s engagement.
The first signs of friction emerged after William was introduced to Meghan when she was staying at Kensington Palace.
Once she returned home to Canada, William and Harry sat down for a sibling chat.
He knew Harry was already crazy about her, but it was claimed he advised him to take it slow.
The younger prince reportedly didn’t take the advice very well, with a royal source saying he “went crazy.”
Then, in June 2019, Harry and Meghan officially split from the charity they shared with William and Kate.
The Royal Foundation will be split between the Sussexes and the Cambridges, while the couples focus on their own separate charitable efforts.
Prince William and Prince Harry first established the Royal Foundation in 2009, before Kate joined two years later, shortly after their engagement was announced.
The trio often appeared together at events and the Foundation has had huge success with projects such as the Invictus Games for injured veterans and the Heads Together mental health campaign.
The Royal Foundation said the decision was made after completing a review of its structure – but added that the two couples would continue to work together in the future.
Harry and Meg lived near Kate and Wills on the Kensington Palace estate, but moved to Frogmore Cottage in Windsor before baby Archie was born.
The move further fueled rumors of a fallout.
Harry, 39, also hinted in his ITV documentary “Harry and Meghan, An African Journey” that he and his brother had grown apart.
This came after Prince Philip called Meghan “DOW”, after the Duchess of Windsor – the American divorcee who led Edward VIII to abdicate.
And he warned the late queen to be “cautious” with Harry’s then-fiancée, claims a royal author.
Ingrid Seward revealed in new book My Mother And I that Prince Philip felt it was “strange… how much Meghan reminded him of the Duchess of Windsor”.
In 2021, Harry and Meghan gave their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey, where Harry accused his father of cutting him off financially.
Harry then flew back to the UK to join William in unveiling a statue of his mother, Princess Diana, in the grounds of Kensington Palace. But sources said William did not want to attend the memorial amid the fallout.
In 2022, shortly before the death of her grandmother, the Queen, sources claimed that Kate acts as a “peacemaker” between the siblings.
Last year, Harry claimed his brother “knocked him to the ground” during an argument about Meghan.
In his book Spare, Harry said William called Meghan “rude” and “difficult” during a fight.
Harry claimed that William “grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and…knocked me to the ground.”
He said he was left with a visible injury to his back after the 2019 argument at Nottingham Cottage, in the grounds of Kensington Palace, where he lived at the time.
In January this year, Harry flew to be with Charles following the shock of the monarch’s cancer diagnosis.
Harry flew back to the US the next day – without seeing Wills.
Charles’ comments echo those of another royal expert, Richard Fitzwilliams, who told The Sun that “petulant” Harry should be the first to take action to resolve the rift with William.
He added that any dissent is “undesirable”, especially when people are battling illness, with King Charles and the Princess of Wales being treated for cancer.
Fitzwilliams said it was up to Harry to instigate any reconciliation efforts, as he has done the most to harm the royals.
When asked about the prospect that a rapprochement with the Prince of Wales might be constructive, Fitzwilliams said: “The problem with any disagreement is that it leads to deep mutual distrust.
“Harry and Meghan were deeply unhappy as senior members of the royal family. He believed they deserved an apology for the way Meghan, in particular, was treated.”
He added: “Given that they are not currently attacking the Royal Family and the idea of bridging the divide is in the air, this is of course welcome.
“However, think about the damage caused by what happened from the interviews they did in South Africa, on Oprah, the Netflix documentary and Spare and the interviews that publicized it.
“Of course William was furious. They made the queen’s last years very difficult. The king threw them out of Frogmore.”
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