The royal feud between the Cambridges and the Sussexes has been going on at full tilt for 18 months says a good friend of Prince Harry.
Tom Bradby, the ITV journalist who covered Harry and Meghan Markle’s infamous Africa trip during which Meghan said she was struggling with royal life and no one asked her if she was OK, told the London Times the princes’ relationship “slowly descended into something that was difficult — personally and publicly — really over the past year and a half”.
The brothers have not been close since Megxit when Harry and Meghan bolted for the comforts (and millions of dollars in contracts) of the United States rather than staying in England.
It comes after a tense few years for the brothers — reportedly falling out over Megxit last year, after Harry revealed in a 2019 interview with Bradby they were already “on different paths.”
“It used to be quite a straightforward thing, right, because they weren’t arguing and life was simple. And then it just slowly descended into something that was difficult — personally and publicly — really over the past year and a half,” Bradby said. The journalist has been friends with both brothers for years, conducting William and Kate’s engagement interview and was the host of a documentary filming the Duke and Duchess of Sussexes trip to South Africa.
Since the Oprah interview aired on Bradby’s network ITV, William has cooled his friendship with the journalist and reportedly feels “let down” by him.
Speaking to The Times about his own mental health issues, Bradby said that he “was clearly influenced by my own experience and I didn’t think they were in great shape, and so I altered the way I was planning to do the documentary”.
“I don’t regret doing that. There may be other times in the future in a whole range of subjects that I will alter my approach if I sense something similar.”