It has been alleged that Prince Harry was "physically attacked" by being "knocked to the floor" by Prince William back in 2019 after a confrontation, according to the Guardian.
It comes as the alleged story was leaked from Prince Harry's new book, Spare, which is due to be released next week on January 10 (Tuesday).
In the autobiography, Prince Harry recalls the moment his brother physically attacked him as their relationship fell apart over his marriage to Meghan Markle.
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According to the Guardian, it happened at his London home in which he says that William called Meghan “difficult”, “rude” and “abrasive”. Harry then said that he was repeating a negative press narrative about his wife and expected better from his brother.
However Harry is then said to have written that William “grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and … knocked me to the floor”.
The Guardian is said to have "obtained a copy" of the book ahead of its launch detailing that Harry was also left with a visible injury to his back.
Harry then accused William of acting like an heir with William saying he was trying to help. It is reported that Harry then replied: "Are you serious? Help me? Sorry – is that what you call this? Helping me?”
The comment is said to have angered his brother who allegedly swore while stepping towards him. He went to the kitchen to get William a glass of water and Harry is said to have then written: “He set down the water, called me another name, then came at me.
"It all happened so fast. So very fast. He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor. I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out.”
Harry writes that William urged him to hit back, citing fights they had as children. Harry however did not and William left but returned “looking regretful, and apologised”. William reportedly then "turned and called back: ‘You don’t need to tell Meg about this.’
“‘You mean that you attacked me?’
“‘I didn’t attack you, Harold.’”
When Meghan later noticed “scrapes and bruises” on his back, and he therefore told her of the attack, Harry says she “wasn’t that surprised, and wasn’t all that angry.
“She was terribly sad.”
The alleged attack on Prince Harry comes as a clip from an upcoming ITV interview, due to air on Sunday, shows Harry saying: “I would like to get my father back, I would like to have my brother back.”
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