Social media users have joked about Prince Harry’s reported claims he had a fight with his brother – with some saying Wills ‘isn’t the most athletic’ and asking ‘who hasn’t had a tear up with their sibling?’
The Duke of Sussex is said to have described a stand-up row that ended with the Prince of Wales grabbing him by the collar and throwing him to the floor, shattering a dog bowl with his back. William then allegedly told a ‘scared’ Harry: ‘I didn’t attack you, Harold’.
Twitter users quipped that the scene was reminiscent of a ‘royal rumble’, with most appearing to back Harry as the most likely to win.
‘Out of the two of them in a tear up, I think my money would be on Harry,’ one wrote. ‘I find it hard to believe William would have the measure of him.’ Another, Susan Godber, added: ‘We all know William isn’t the most athletic.’
Twitter users joked about the scene being reminiscent of a ‘royal rumble’, and shared clips of Harry energetically working out alongside a video of William slowly making his way along a tree trunk
Other Twitter users shared clips of Harry energetically working out alongside a video of William slowly making his way along a tree trunk while struggling to balance.
Roz Hubley, a PR consultant, tweeted: ‘And here were we thinking what a roughie toughie Harry was after his spell in Afghanistan and he childishly complains about being pushed over by his brother!’
Meanwhile, Magdalena Vassi said: ‘And he was scared? And was terrified when William shouted at him? I mean, was he ever in the army?’
Harry was deployed to Afghanistan in 2007 for ten weeks and worked as a forward air controller, coordinating airstrikes on Taliban positions.
In the extraordinary excerpt from Harry’s upcoming autobiography Spare, reported by the Guardian newspaper, Harry recalls what he describes as a physical attack by his sibling, which he claims left him with visible injuries, including ‘scrapes and bruises’.
The furious row allegedly broke out in the kitchen of his London home, Nottingham Cottage, in the grounds of Kensington Palace in 2019.
Describing what he claims happened next, and insisting he was scared, the former soldier reportedly said: ‘He set down the water, called me another name, then came at me. It all happened so fast. So very fast.
‘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. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out’.
William and Harry wearing boxing gloves during visits to the Olympic Park in east London
Twitter users joked the reported fight was a ‘royal rumble’
A montage shared by a Twitter user of Harry energetically working out and William slowly making his way along a tree trunk while struggling to balance
In the report of the book extract, Harry claims that William had then urged him to fight back, saying that is what would happen when they scrapped as children.
But the Duke of Sussex claims he refused, claiming that William left and then returned ‘looking regretful, and apologised’.
William then ‘turned and called back: “You don’t need to tell Meg about this”.’
Harry claims he said: ‘You mean that you attacked me?’, to which William replied: ‘I didn’t attack you, Harold’.
The duke says that the first person he spoke to about it was his therapist, on the phone.
But he claims Meghan would later see the ‘scrapes and bruises’ on his back from the dog bowl.
He claims his wife ‘wasn’t that surprised, and wasn’t all that angry. She was terribly sad’.
The Guardian said it was reporting from a leaked copy.
It is not known how the newspaper obtained an early copy of the book, given that the publisher Penguin Random House has gone to great lengths to prevent leaks.
The Nottingham Cottage kitchen, where Harry is said to claim his brother grabbed him by the collar and threw him to the floor, smashing a dog bowl
Harry wearing a necklace with Meghan in September 2019 in South Africa
There will be a probe at publisher Penguin over the leak. One excerpt was also reported by Page Six in the US.
Sources previously said arrangements for Harry’s ‘explosive’ memoir’s release were ultra-closely guarded and being managed in minute detail, with only a handful of senior executives aware of the exact details.
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