Harry says William 'hurt' him with savage school remark which didn't make sense
Prince Harry made a number of shocking allegations against his brother on Sunday night - but there's one that has caused quite a debate.
While promoting his highly-anticipated autobiography Spare, the Duke of Sussex sat down with Anderson Cooper on CBS's flagship 60 Minutes programme to discuss his life and struggles.
Harry tore into Prince William, for a number of reasons, including the claim that his brother tried to ban him from having a beard at his own wedding.
He also accused William and sister-in-law Kate Middleton of "stereotyping" his wife, Meghan Markle, and not getting on with her "from the get-go".
But one of the most divisive moments came when Harry attacked his brother for not wanting to speak at school.
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Prince Harry and Prince William both went to Eton (UK Press via Getty Images)Harry had begun the interview by saying that he loves William and that he never deliberately tried to hurt him.
"My brother and I love each other. I love him deeply," he told Cooper.
"There has been a lot of pain between the two of us, especially the last six years. Um- None of anything that I've written, anything I've included is ever intended to hurt my family."
"But it does give a full picture of the situation as we were growing up, and also squashes this idea that somehow my wife was the one that destroyed the relationship between these two brothers."
While discussing his school days, Harry then claimed that William made a rather scathing remark when he first attended Eton.
Prince William with Diana, Princess of Wales and Prince Harry on the day he joined Eton (WireImage)Harry said William wanted them to "pretend" they didn't know each other while they were at school.
"Even when you were in the same school, in high school," Cooper said to Harry, "Your brother told you, 'Pretend we don't know each other.'"
Harry replied: "Yeah, and at the time it hurt. I couldn't make sense of it. I was like, 'What do you mean? We're now at the same school'.
"Like, 'I haven't seen you for ages, now we get to hang out together.' He's like, 'No, no, no, when we're at school we don't know each other.' And I took that personally.
"But yes, you're absolutely right, you hit the nail on the head. Like, we had a very similar traumatic experience, and then we— we dealt with it two very different ways."
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Prince Harry at his desk in his room at Eton (Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images)Many viewers took to Twitter to claim this is just standard behaviour for siblings at school.
"That made me laugh... because my daughters went to the same school and my eldest daughter would tell the younger that at school they don't know each other..... That is normal behaviour with siblings," wrote one person.
Another added: "My older brothers told me not to never approach them in the playground in front of their mates and if I did they wouldn’t give me a ride home on the handlebars of their bike. I'm still waiting for my 60 minutes interview to flesh that out."
However, some people came to Harry's defence and suggested the circumstances were very different to most.
"Did you also live in a [boarding] school without any family after losing a parent? It's not the same thing," asked one viewer.
A fourth tweeted: "They were two young boys still dealing with the death of their mother. Harry just wanted to hang out with his older brother, his only family member, in boarding school. Although I don't think William's action was malicious. But he just didn't realize how much Harry needed him."
Princess of Wales follows her sons Prince Harry (right), five years old, and Prince William, seven, on Harry's first day at the Wetherby School (PA)Harry went on to speak about the shared traumatic experience the brothers had - the death of their mother.
The Duke of Sussex claimed William did make efforts to speak about Princess Diana, but Harry didn't know how to discuss his mother's passing.
"William had tried to talk to you occasionally about your mom," Cooper said to Harry, "but you, as a child you could not— you couldn't respond."
"For me, it was never a case of, 'I— I don't want to talk about it with you,'" Harry said. "I just don't know how to talk about it. I never ever thought that maybe talking about it with my brother or with anybody else at that point would be therapeutic."
Buckingham and Kensington Palaces have refused to content on the contents of the book, which hits the shelves on Tuesday.
Spare is set to be released early next week at all book stores and can be bought online here.
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