“You never came to us! You never came to me!” According to Prince Harry, these were his brother’s impassioned words to him during a catastrophic encounter just hours after their grandfather the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral in April 2021.
It’s a heartbreaking scene at a crucial time in the evolving world of the House of Windsor. Britain was in the grip of pandemic restrictions and in its necessary simplicity Prince Philip’s funeral was powerful and poignant. The Queen sat alone on a pew silent in her grief during the service in Windsor’s St George’s Chapel where, almost three years before, Harry and Meghan had married in a jubilant celebration, their union heralded by a gospel choir.
As he tells it in his explosive memoir, Spare, Harry is walking with Charles and William through Frogmore Gardens in the grounds of the Windsor Estate for a secret meeting. “I saw them. Shoulder to shoulder, striding towards me, they looked grim, almost menacing. More, they looked tightly aligned.” Together they venture forth past the graves of ancestors, history guiding every step as they try to find common ground in the wake of Harry and Meghan’s shock move to the US and the couple’s brutal bombshells dropped in the Oprah interview screened a month before.
“I saw them. Shoulder to shoulder, striding towards me, they looked
