Prince William might be feuding with Prince Harry — but after all has been said and done, he still sees him as his younger brother.
According to a royal expert, Prince William was certainly not laughing upon discovering Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had a near-catastrophic car chase in New York.
Prince Harry, his wife Markle, and mother-in-law, Doria Ragland, recently attended an award show in the Big Apple.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, was honored with the Women of Vision Awards for pushing causes such as gender equality and women’s rights.
After the ceremony, the trio was being escorted back to an undisclosed home when they were chased by a group of aggressive paparazzi. The chase could have resulted in accidents.
Conflicting reports emerged after the incident. Markle and Prince Harry said it was serious and they were scared, while the police and the taxi driver involved in the drama said, it was less dramatic.
Prince William, King Charles III, and the rest of the Royal Family have not contacted the Montecito royals about the chase.
However, a friend of the King told the Daily Beast that he was concerned about the events.
And according to BBC’s former royal correspondent Jennie Bond, Prince William was heartbroken over the reports about his brother because they triggered the painful memories of his mother, Princess Diana‘s fatal car accident.
The royal expert told OK!: “Of course, it was very triggering for Harry to have paparazzi around him, and I think it also must have been really shocking to imagine William seeing that news flash come up on his phone about his brother’s near catastrophic car chase. That must have struck right at William’s heart.”
The commentator claimed that the heir to the throne must have been upset over the news and added: “[I]t must have been upsetting for William because it was his mother too. I remember so clearly, Diana saying, ‘I don’t want royal security anymore, and I don’t want them all around me. I can manage.”
She concluded by saying: “But in the end, it was the lack of professional royal protection which cost [Princess Diana] her life, and I think William would have had to have a heart of steel not to be worried about his brother. But I also think the rift is so deep that I doubt they’ve talked about it. You’d kind of hope maybe it [would] be in a text or something, but who knows.”
Despite those feelings, peace is still unlikely between the two sides.
