Prince William’s Caring Gesture to Harry Goes Viral
6 hours ago
3,629
Prince William opening up a family photo album to show Prince Harry a picture of him with their mother that he said was “quite sweet” has gone viral on TikTok.
A clip of William and Harry flicking through pictures of Princess Diana ahead of the 20th anniversary of her death was liked 67.5k times and viewed almost a million times.
In the footage, William hands his brother a photo album and says “actually I thought this was quite sweet” before showing a picture of Diana with her arms around a young Harry.
Prince William and Prince Harry attend the opening of the Greenhouse Sports Centre in London on April 26, 2018. Prince William and Prince Harry attend the opening of the Greenhouse Sports Centre in London on April 26, 2018. Toby Melville – WPA Pool/Getty Images
Why It Matters
William and Harry were still getting on at the time the footage was captured for the 2017 ITV documentary Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy.
However, their relationship has since been shattered by a deep rift that largely grew during the build up to Meghan and Harry’s 2018 wedding and the months that followed.
The apparent warmth seen on camera just a year earlier comes in stark contrast to their relationship now, with the two not speaking to each other.
What to Know
In 2017, William and Harry got together to mark the 20th anniversary of their mother’s death in a Paris car crash.
The filmmakers persuaded the brothers to open the family photo album and share some never before seen pictures from their childhood.
William also showed a picture of himself with a pregnant Diana and said to Harry: “You and I are both in this photograph. You’re in the tummy.”
“She smothered us with love, that’s for sure,” Harry said.
What People Are Saying
The footage was posted with the message: “I miss this duo sm [so much].”
One fan wrote on TikTok that it was “so sad the brothers don’t get along,” while another said: “Come on you guys can work it out again 😢.”
A third said: “I wish for them become close again their Mother would be HEARTBROKEN if she was alive. They have been thru [too] much and need to [find] common ground again.”
What Happens Next
Speculation William and Harry might put their differences behind them has been dying down as pessimism takes hold in the British media.
Harry acknowledged in a January 2023 interview with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes that they are no longer in contact.
Life is long and it is not impossible that could change, but there is no clear path to reconciliation visible now.
Jack Royston is chief royal correspondent for Newsweek, based in London. You can find him on X, formerly Twitter, at @jack_royston and read his stories on Newsweek‘s The Royals Facebook page.
Do you have a question about Charles and Camilla, William and Kate, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, or their family that you would like our experienced royal correspondents to answer? Email royals@newsweek.com. We’d love to hear frozm you.
Um die besten Erfahrungen zu bieten, verwenden wir Technologien wie Cookies, um Geräteinformationen zu speichern und/oder darauf zuzugreifen. Wenn Sie diesen Technologien zustimmen, können wir Daten wie das Surfverhalten oder eindeutige IDs auf dieser Website verarbeiten. Die Nichteinwilligung oder der Widerruf der Einwilligung kann bestimmte Merkmale und Funktionen beeinträchtigen.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
