It perhaps goes without saying—and is an understatement of the year—that the once-close relationship between Prince Harry and his sister-in-law, the Princess of Wales, has dissolved (not to mention his basically nonexistent relationship with his brother and Kate’s husband, Prince William). If you look at Harry and Kate even in the photos in this article, it’s clear the affection they once shared for one another, dating back as far as the early aughts, when William and Kate began their relationship. Now, The Daily Mail reports, though it survived the initial shockwaves of the 2018 bridesmaids dress row, the relationship has now crumbled as Harry’s media bombshells have “deeply wounded” her.
“Prince Harry once described her as the sister he never had—but his relationship with Kate Middleton is far from what it once was,” the outlet writes. “In the early years of the Duke’s brother’s relationship with the Princess of Wales, he [Harry] referenced his fear that she would ‘take Willy away.’ Despite this, the two are believed to have gotten along swimmingly and often attended royal events together.” After the disconnect began between William and Harry, Kate often acted as peacemaker, as we tangentially saw at Prince Philip’s funeral in 2021. As the photo above shows, the two—pictured together in 2019—made it through the scuffle around bridesmaids dresses during the leadup to Harry and Meghan Markle’s 2018 wedding. (Nobody looks miffed in that photo.) But now, the relationship is broken (and hopefully not beyond repair).
