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Prince William shared his personal thoughts on grief and appeared to make a subtle reference to his estranged brother Prince Harry in a foreword for a booklet on bereavement compiled by London’s Air Ambulance Charity.

William is patron of the organisation and said he hoped the booklet would offer “comfort and support” to those who have suddenly lost a loved one.

Unexpected loss is something William and Harry are sadly all too familiar with, as their mother Princess Diana was tragically killed in a car crash in Paris in 1997, when they were still at school.

The Prince of Wales wrote in his foreword: “No two experiences of bereavement are ever the same. The sudden and often unexpected loss of a loved one can be profoundly difficult to process, even with the passing of time.”

Different experiences are a common theme in the fallout between William and Harry, with the Duke of Sussex claiming he was treated as being less important than his brother and criticising the Firm for not supporting him sufficiently after Diana’s death.

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In Heart of Invictus, the documentary series which Harry executively produced for Netflix, he stated the royals had not known how to be there for him at this difficult time and protect him from the media spotlight.

He said: “Losing my mum at such a young age, the trauma that I had, I was never really aware of. It was never discussed. I didn’t talk about it. And I’ve suppressed it like most youngsters would have done.

“But then when it all came fizzing out, I was bouncing off the walls. Like, what is going on here? I’m now feeling everything as opposed to being numb.”

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Harry added: “The biggest struggle for me was no one around me really could help. I didn’t have that support structure, that network, or that expert advice to identify what was actually going on with me.”

In the Duke’s memoir Spare, named in reference to Harry being the ‘spare’ while his older brother was the ‘heir’, he claimed King Charles had been “inattentive” as a parent and William had always been a rival to him.

While speaking to ITV’s Tom Bradby, Harry admitted that he had only been able to cry once after hearing about his mother’s death when he was just 12.

He told the journalist: “I cried once, at the burial, and you know I go into detail about how strange it was and how actually there was some guilt that I felt and I think William felt as well, by walking around the outside of Kensington Palace.

“Everyone thought and felt like they knew our mum, and the two closest people to her, the two most loved people by her, were unable to show any emotion in that moment.”

Although Harry and wife Meghan Markle have settled away from the royals with their young family in California, some have speculated that he “misses his old life” in the UK and could forge a “compromise” to be able to return more often.

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