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Meghan & Harry will NEVER be forgiven by Kate & Wills – they’ve caused an awful lot of pain, says royal expert
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MEGHAN and Harry will never be forgiven by William and Kate as they’ve caused an awful lot of pain, a royal expert has revealed.
Charles Rae, the legendary former royal correspondent, appeared on The Sun’s Royal Exclusive show for the second time to talk with The Sun’s royal editor Matt Wilkinson.
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The situation of the strained relationship between the royal brothers was a hot topic of discussion, particularly, whether the Sussexes or the Wales’s should make the first move to attempt a reconciliation.
Charles said: “Well, I think it is down to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to make the first move.
“Whether or not it would be accepted by William and Catherine, I doubt very much it would be.
“There’s too much water which has gone under that bridge.
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“After everything Harry and Meghan have done with the Oprah Winfrey interview, that Netflix show… [Harry’s book] Spare. The flamboyant curtsey by Meghan on the show as well.
“There’s too much gone under the bridge now.
“If they’re going to make the move, I am not so sure William and Catherine would respond favourably.
Charles added: “William’s got a lot more on his mind right now than repairing the troubles with his own brother. He’s got his wife to look after and his three children.
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“They are the most important things that are going on.
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“If Harry was that keen on making some sort of move towards William… he didn’t wish him a happy 42nd birthday.
He added: “Any rift in any family is very, very sad. They’re doing it in the full glare of publicity and that’s obviously ten times worse than you falling out with your brother or sister.
“But Harry’s caused an awful lot of pain to various members of the Royal Family, his father, his brother, his sister-in-law.”
Matt then raised the possibility that someone could meet both brothers in the middle in an attempt to bring them back together.
Charles said: “I don’t think it’s ever going to happen and I suspect one of the driving forces in not making it happen is Meghan herself.
“I’m not trying to blame her for everything.
“I don’t blame her for everything but I don’t think things she is doing help matters.”
A timeline of Prince Harry and William's 'feud': Brothers 'at war'
In 2018, the Sun told how "simmering tension" began when William questioned the speed of Harry and Meghan's engagement.
The first hints of friction reportedly came after William was introduced to Meghan when she was staying at Kensington Palace.
Once she'd returned home to Canada, William and Harry sat down for a brother-to-brother chat.
He knew Harry was already head-over-heels for her but it has been claimed he advised him to take it slowly.
The younger prince reportedly didn't take too kindly to the advice, with one royal source saying he "went mental".
Then in June 2019 Harry and Meghan officially split off from the charity they shared with William and Kate.
The Royal Foundation will be divided between the Sussexes and Cambridges as the couples focus on their own separate charitable endeavours.
Prince William and Prince Harry first established the Royal Foundation in 2009 before Kate joined two years later shortly after their engagement was announced.
The trio would often appear together at events and the Foundation had huge successes with projects like the Invictus Games for injured veterans and the mental health Heads Together campaign.
The Royal Foundation said the decision was made following the conclusion of a review into its structure - but added both couples will continue to work together in the future.
Harry and Meg were living in close proximity to Kate and Wills within the Kensington Palace estate, but they switched to Frogmore Cottage in Windsor before baby Archie was born.
The move further increased rumours of a fallout.
Harry, 39, also hinted in his ITV documentary "Harry and Meghan, An African Journey" that he and his brother had grown apart.
It came after Prince Philip called Meghan the "D.O.W" after the Duchess of Windsor — the American divorcee who led Edward VIII to abdicate.
And he warned the late Queen to be "cautious" of Harry's then bride-to-be, a royal author claims.
Ingrid Seward revealed in new book My Mother And I that Prince Philip felt it was "uncanny...how much Meghan reminded him of the Duchess of Windsor".
In 2021, Harry and Meghan give their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey where Harry accused his dad of cutting him off financially.
Harry then jetted back to UK to join William in unveiling a statue to their mother Princess Diana in the grounds of Kensington Palace. But sources claimed William didn’t want to attend the memorial amid their ongoing rift.
In 2022, just before their grandmother the Queen died, sources claimed Kate acts as a "peacemaker" between the brothers.
Last year Harry claimed his brother "knocked him to the floor" during an argument about Meghan.
In his book Spare, Harry said William branded Meghan "rude" and "difficult" during a row.
Harry alleged William "grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and … knocked me to the floor".
He said he was left with a visible injury to his back following the argument in 2019 at Nottingham Cottage on the grounds of Kensington Palace, where he was living at the time.
In January this year, Harry flew in to be with Charles after the monarch's shock cancer diagnosis.
Harry flew back to the US the following day - without seeing Wills.
Charles' comments echo those of another royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams told The Sun that "petulant" Harry must be the first one to make a move to heal the rift with William.
He added that any rift is "undesirable", especially when people are battling illness with both King Charles and the Princess of Wales being treated for cancer.
Mr Fitzwilliams said it was up to Harry to instigate any efforts at reconciliation as he had done the most to harm the royals.
When asked about the perspective that it might be constructive for the Prince of Wales to reach out, Mr Fitzwilliams said: "The problem with any rift is that it leads to deep mutual mistrust.
"Harry and Meghan were deeply unhappy as senior working members of the royal family. He believed they were due an apology for the way Meghan in particular was treated."
He added: "Given that they are not currently attacking the Royal Family and the idea of bridging the rift is in the air, of course this is welcome.
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"However, give a thought to the damage caused by what happened from the interviews they gave in South Africa, on Oprah, on the Netflix documentary and in Spare and the interviews publicising it.
"Of course William was enraged. They made the Queen's last years very difficult. The King evicted them from Frogmore."
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