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Prince William was left with a "huge amount of anger" after Prince Harry published his bombshell memoir, Spare, in January, a new book has said, with the future king feeling as though he had "lost" his only brother.
William and Harry's relationship has been explored in a new extract of the soon-to-be-released royal book, Endgame, written by Finding Freedom co-author, Omid Scobie.
Published by People on Wednesday, the extract reveals the tensions between the two brothers in the days and months after the death of their grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II in 2022.
Citing a number of unnamed sources, Scobie presented an account that saw William ignore his brother's attempts to communicate at the time of the queen's death, forcing Harry to travel to Scotland to see his grandmother's body alone at his own expense.
The brothers' relationship was one of the core themes of Harry's memoir released four months later, with a number of accusations and allegations being made against William to which he did not publicly respond.
Chief among these was the allegation of physical assault that allegedly took place in 2019, when William knocked his brother to the ground during an argument over Meghan Markle's treatment of staff at Kensington Palace.
Writing in Endgame, Scobie cited a "source close" to William who revealed that after Spare: "There's a huge amount of anger there. He feels betrayed and sad about the situation. But he also doesn't agree with the things his brother feels he has done. He feels he has lost Harry and doesn't want to know this version of him."
"That version, countered a Spencer family source, is simply 'Harry being a man who has stepped outside of the institution and sees things in a different light. They will never see eye to eye at this point. They're on completely opposite sides...that won't change,'" Scobie wrote.
Newsweek approached representatives of Prince Harry as well as Kensington Palace via email for comment.
Harry and William both attended their father King Charles III's coronation in May but have not been photographed together since Queen Elizabeth's funeral in September 2022.
Harry's memoir was published on January 10 amidst a wave of speculative and anticipatory press reporting, influenced by interviews that the prince had done to promote it.
On publication day, Spare became the fastest-selling nonfiction book of all time and earned Harry a Guinness World Record.
Among the revelations that were made, a number earned the prince criticism and backlash, including his description of killing 25 Taliban fighters while serving in the British Army, and his experiences with illegal drugs.
Harry told readers of his relationship with William that his elder brother had purposefully acted as though he didn't exist while at school, that he repeated tabloid narratives about Meghan Markle and that he initiated an argument at the time of the 2018 royal wedding over Harry's beard.
William and the members of the royal family at large did not respond to the claims made by Harry in the book, in line with a blanket "no comment" rule adopted by Buckingham Palace.
Endgame by Omid Scobie is available in the U.S. from November 28 at $32, published by Harper Collins.
James Crawford-Smith is Newsweek's royal reporter, based in London. You can find him on X (formerly Twitter) at @jrcrawfordsmith and read his stories on Newsweek's The Royals Facebook page.
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