Prince William's 'famous warning' to Harry discussed by expert

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The Duke of Sussex, 36, has arrived at Heathrow Airport ahead of his grandfather Prince Philip’s funeral on Saturday. The Duke of Edinburgh, 99, died peacefully on Friday at Windsor Castle. He had recently undergone heart surgery and been treated for an infection during his month-long stay in hospital.

Philip’s funeral will be attended only by 30 close family and friends due to coronavirus restrictions, but it will be televised and the nation will join in a minute’s silence at 3pm.

While Prince Harry made the 5,400-mile journey back to the UK, it is believed his wife Meghan Markle was advised against travelling, due to her pregnancy.

After arriving at 1.15pm off the British Airways flight, the Duke was put in a black Range Rover and it is understood he was driven to Kensington Palace.

Harry will be seeing his family members in person for the first time since his bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey last month.

His shocking claims will have caused a great deal of tension that he will now have to deal with amid the sorrow of the occasion.

One relationship that may be particularly frosty is with his brother William, with whom he is said to have had an “unproductive” phone call with post-interview.

Harry said he hoped to repair the relationship with his brother, but William’s friends are not confident about this, according to an expert.

Pod Save the Queen is hosted by Ann Gripper and features Daily Mirror royal editor Russell Myers.

The pair highlighted Roya Nikkhah’s “incredible” profile of Prince William in the Sunday Times Magazine, for which she spoke to people very close to the Duke.

Mr Myers explained that friends had told Ms Nikkhah that they wondered whether the relationship could ever be repaired.

Mr Myers said: “It tells you what a lot of us have been speaking about, but it builds it in one place for the first time since this whole debacle has been ongoing.

“It’s about how William feels about a lot of these issues, how he feels Harry did blindside the Queen, how he feels he disrespected the Queen, how his relationship has really deteriorated.

“And certainly that friends of William had told the Sunday Times that the brothers have been through an awful lot and that bond still remains very very strong for them, but the issues of the last year, few weeks even, have left such a hole in the relationship that some do wonder whether it can ever, ever be repaired.”

Before Prince Philip’s death on Friday, it was believed that William and Harry’s first meeting since the Oprah Winfrey interview would be the unveiling of the Princess Diana statue in the Sunken Gardens at Kensington Palace on July 1.

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This would have given a bit more time for the brothers to cool off and process what had happened.

Instead, there have been just a few weeks since the Duke of Sussex aired the family’s dirty laundry and William had to fend off questions as to whether his family was “a racist family”.

According to Ms Nikkhah’s article, William and Harry went for a walk together after the Sandringham Summit last year, but did not part as friends.

William was upset by how Harry and Meghan had launched their Sussex Royal website before the summit, which featured their wish list of what they wanted to happen in their part-time royal life.

After the Queen instructed the couple not to use the term ‘Royal’ in such a way, they agreed to use a different name.

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However, William felt the way they had behaved was disrespectful to Her Majesty.

A source close to him said: “That was it for William, he felt they had blindsided the Queen in such an insulting and disrespectful way.”

However, an aide said William does miss his brother, whom he was very close to in the past.

They said: “Once he got over the anger of how things happened, he was left with the absence of his brother.

“They shared everything about their lives, an office, a foundation, meetings together most days and there was a lot of fun along the way. He’ll miss it forever.”

A friend said William “definitely feels the pressure now it’s all on him – his future looks different because of his brother’s choices, it’s not easy”.

Another friend added: “It’s still raw. He’s very upset by what’s happened, though absolutely intent that he and Harry’s relationship will heal in time.”

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