Prince William has privately warned there will be 'consequences' if Prince Harry continues making what he sees as pointed digs involving his royal children, according to a friend of the Prince of Wales, after Harry allegedly lamented from California that Archie and Lilibet are missing out on the kind of family life their cousins enjoy in Britain.
The latest clash between the brothers follows a string of upbeat family moments from William and Kate that briefly pushed royal tensions into the background. In recent weeks, Kensington Palace released new photographs and home-video-style clips marking the couple's 15th wedding anniversary, Prince Louis' eighth birthday and Princess Charlotte turning 11. The images, showing the children playing cricket, searching the Norfolk shoreline for pebbles and tumbling around with the family spaniels, Orla and Otto, were widely read as a carefully chosen glimpse of a 'normal' childhood at the heart of a future king's household.
