{"id":27431,"date":"2025-04-17T11:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T11:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/27431\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T11:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T11:47:08","slug":"prince-harry-planned-ukraine-trip-to-annoy-brother-as-prince-william-banned-from-going-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/27431\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry &#8216;planned Ukraine trip to annoy brother&#8217; as Prince William banned from going | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An expert has suggested <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2040761\/prince-harry-insider-ukraine-safer-uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry deliberately planned his trip to Ukraine<\/a> to annoy his brother, Prince William. According to insiders, the Prince of Wales has been denied permission to make a similar trip due to security concerns, despite his keen interest.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/royal\/royal-news-prince-harry-deliberate-dig-william\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GB News<\/a>, Charlotte Griffiths, Editor-at-Large of the Mail on Sunday, said: &#8220;That&#8217;s the kind of thing that would absolutely infuriate William. And for all this talk about spare Harry grumbles that he was &#8216;the spare&#8217; but William has found it so frustrating, and has done all his life, that Harry gets special treatment he\u2019s never had.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She also claimed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a> &#8220;knows exactly how to push his brother&#8217;s buttons&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Duke of Sussex met war victims in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/ukraine\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> on Thursday when he visited a clinic which rehabilitates wounded military personnel and civilians. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a> visited the Superhumans Centre, in the western city of Lviv, where he spoke to patients and staff.<\/p>\n<p>He was accompanied by a group from the Invictus Games Foundation, including four veterans who had been through a similar programme. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a>, who served for 10 years in the British Army, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2010965\/team-uk-winter-invictus-games-canada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">founded the Invictus Games in 2014 for wounded veterans and their families.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harry&#8217;s journey to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/ukraine\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> came just days after he appeared in London&#8217;s High Court, arguing that he and his family were not safe to visit Britain without taxpayer-funded police protection.<\/p>\n<p>This led to accusations of hypocrisy, as he had visited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/ukraine\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> whilst claiming he needed special security in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14614371\/why-Prince-Harry-Ukraine-visit-frustrated-Prince-William.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail<\/a>, the Prince of Wales is said to have voiced his frustration to Kensington Palace staff who urged him against travelling to the war-torn country.<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2029811\/prince-william-estonia-ukraine-russia-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince William, however, visited Estonia to support UK troops<\/a> in what is now the British Army&#8217;s biggest operational deployment overseas &#8211; Estonia being strong supporter of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/ukraine\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">During his two-day trip to Estonia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-william\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince William<\/a> visited some of the 900 British troops in this multinational force, including soldiers of the Mercian regiment of which the prince is colonel-in-chief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An expert has suggested Prince Harry deliberately planned his trip to Ukraine to annoy his brother, Prince William.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[8009,15874,447,12473,2655,16560,16559,532,5105,7710,519,448,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-27431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-harry-and-meghan","9":"tag-harry-meghan","10":"tag-prince-harry","11":"tag-prince-harry-latest","12":"tag-prince-harry-news","13":"tag-prince-harry-veteran","14":"tag-prince-harry-visit-to-ukraine","15":"tag-prince-william","16":"tag-royal","17":"tag-royal-families","18":"tag-royal-family","19":"tag-royals","20":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114353146664695573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}