The Duke of Sussex has said his brother, the Prince of Wales, ordered him to shave his beard off before his own wedding in 2018. Harry said he had asked permission from the Queen to keep his facial hair prior to the event and that she had allowed him to do so, but that William had been unhappy about the decision.
During his first televised interview to promote his new memoir, Spare, he described his beard as “a shield to my anxiety” and that it made him feel like “the new Harry”.
Speaking to ITV’s Tom Bradby, he said: “I think…there’s a level of competition there. I remembered that William had a beard himself and that Granny and other people, the ones to tell – told him that he had to shave it off.”
