It’s been forever since we’ve had a story about Prince William being incandescent with rage about something! By “forever,” I mean… like, four weeks or so? God, remember right after the Oprah interview, every single story about William led with the fact that he was engorged with rage? Good times. But William has new branding now, and a new crisis manager to help him along. Goodbye, Engorged With Rage and hello The Other Brother Is A Sad Future King. From what I can tell, judging from this Dan Wootton column in the Daily Mail, is that William grieves for Diana, just like Harry, but Harry’s grief is wrong and William’s grief is more important because William will be king. If that doesn’t make any sense, helllooo, we’re talking about Dan Wootton and Baldingham and their very odd dynamic. Some highlights:
William agrees with Harry that Charles was a crappy father: The gulf between Prince William and Harry over the way they intend to publicly deal with their father has become seismic. In private, the Duke of Cambridge has shared many of his brother’s views about Prince Charles’ parenting ability in the past. However, the thought of broadcasting such private family matters in the incendiary way Harry has over the past week on an American podcast would horrify the second in line to the throne.
William has tried to reconcile with Charles in recent years: A royal source tells me: ‘Prince William is, of course, saddened by the recent developments because of the way Prince Harry is putting such deeply personal pain into the public domain, invading all the family’s privacy. It is fair to say that, even now, William does privately have conversations about the relationship with his father, which has been strained in the past. There was much hurt after his mother’s death and both brothers at times found their father’s commitment to his work difficult to comprehend.
William is like Harry, only more kingly: ‘Just like Harry, William has learned lessons from his upbringing and ensures he puts his family time first above any other commitment. But William also believes continually developing and growing his relationship with his father is critical for the future of the monarchy. They now have a lot of mutual respect and he would never even comprehend for one moment speaking publicly in the way Harry has done in the past week.’
William is incandescent because he & Harry agreed to not talk about Diana anymore? There are fears within royal households that he may launch further attacks on his family, possibly around the circumstances he and William were forced to walk behind the coffin, in the Apple show. Another royal insider says: ‘Of course this is Prince Harry’s story to tell and he has every right to share it. But what you have to understand is that it goes very much against the strategy he agreed with William following the 20th anniversary of Diana’s death. That’s going to increase tensions between William and Harry, which sadly are already high.’
[From The Daily Mail]
Mostly, this Wootton piece is coming across as almost like… William agrees with Harry but he would never say it out loud. Which is funny, because William has criticized his father plenty of times, implicitly or explicitly. But now that Willileaks and Charles are stuck with each other on the Titanic, suddenly Will would never speak ill of his father! It’s also funny because before William finally got it through his bald dome that he should try to get along with his father, Charles was much closer to Harry. I think that was an unexplored part of William’s attempt to exile Harry too – Willy was ready to be daddy’s favorite so Willy had to shove Harry out of the country.
Also: I kind of wonder if perhaps William has been told to reel it in with all of the “enraged” stories. At the moment, none of this is coming across as a threat or an implicit punishment of Harry, which is interesting. These people are genuinely stupid enough to think that they could score points with the public if William was seen as threatening to rescind Harry’s invitation to the fakakta statue unveiling in July. But no such threat has happened. Probably because someone, somewhere knows that the threat would be good enough reason for Harry to announce that he’s not coming anyway because of Meghan’s due date, and the Other Brother can f–k all the way off.
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