FOR years it has been thought that Princess Kate could play peacemaker between warring Prince William and Prince Harry.
However, a royal expert has claimed that the Princess of Wales has given up trying to mend bridges and “finally threw up her hands in disgust” at the situation.
Following her health struggles this year and her undoing preventative cancer treatment, it is said that Kate’s priorities have shifted.
Royal author Christopher Andersen claimed to Fox News Digital that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are not on Kate’s radar these days.
He alleged: “The idea that Kate somehow still has the time and energy to continue playing peacemaker is rubbish.
“She did try over a period of years and finally threw up her hands in disgust.
“She did her bit, but it wasn’t enough to build a bridge between William and Charles on the one side and Harry on the other.”
Princess Kate – who is mum to Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, nine, and Prince Louis, six – is said to be focusing on preserving the future of the monarchy.
Harry’s family tension
Since stepping back as a senior working royal, Prince Harry has had a strained relationship with his family.
This has been exacerbated by his damning Spare memoir and bombshell Oprah Winfrey interview where he was less than flattering about King Charles and Prince William.
Harry even referred to William as his “beloved brother” and “arch-nemesis” in his biography, and claimed he had an alleged physical altercation with him in 2019.
The Duke of Sussex wrote: “He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor. I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me.”
The book stated how Harry had previously had a sisterly relationship with Kate, but things turned sour when he started dating American actress Meghan.
He wrote: “Kate had problems with the way Meg was planning her wedding… Something about a tailor for the bridesmaids’ dresses… it caused some tension.”
Kate’s new focus
Royal broadcaster Helena Chard added that Kate is now focusing on her family and her health, following her tough year with her health.
She said: “Making sure her family is well and happy is her priority.
“Prince Harry will want to contact Princess Catherine.
The idea that Kate somehow still has the time and energy to continue playing peacemaker is rubbish. She did try over a period of years and finally threw up her hands in disgust
Christopher Andersen
“Prince Harry will be bothered by the silent treatment – and the royal family is aware of this.”
Kinsey Schofield, To Di For Daily podcast, agreed, saying: “Harry likely misses Catherine because he is a perpetual victim, but you’ve made your bed, now lie in it.
“I hope the payday he received from ‘Spare’ was worth losing a sister-in-law who loved him like her own little brother.”
Harry’s UK snubs
Prince Harry had made a handful of visits to the UK in 2024 but has had limited contact with his UK family.
He most recently attended the WellChild Awards in London in late September.
However, there were no plans for him to meet King Charles or Prince William during the trip.
The Duke of Sussex – who lives in a £12million Californian mansion with Meghan and their kids, Prince Archie, five and Princess Lilibet, three – also didn’t visit his family during a visit in May for the anniversary of the Invictus Games.
The last known face-to-face visit between Harry and King Charles was in February 2024, following Charles’ cancer diagnosis.
Harry and William both attended the funeral of their uncle, Lord Robert Fellowes, in Norfolk, in August but reportedly did not speak.
A source said they arrived discreetly and separately in the back, saying: “We never saw them speak to each other, and they were keeping their distance.”
A timeline of Prince Harry's family feud
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 also hinted in his ITV documentary “Harry and Meghan, An African Journey” that he and his brother had grown apart.
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.
Harry claimed his brother “knocked him to the floor” during an argument about Meghan, in his memoir.
In 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.
In May he visited the UK for a three-day visit without seeing King Charles or Prince William.