{"id":317132,"date":"2025-08-04T12:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317132\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T12:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:34:10","slug":"prince-harry-denies-having-physical-fight-with-prince-andrew-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317132\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry denies having &#8216;physical fight&#8217; with Prince Andrew | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Harry has denied having a fight with Prince Andrew after it was claimed &#8220;punches were thrown&#8221; between the pair in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations appeared in excerpts from a new book on the Duke of York being serialised in the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>It claims a row started after <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/prince-andrew-8242\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Andrew<\/a><\/strong> said something behind Harry&#8217;s back, with Andrew &#8220;left with a bloody nose&#8221; and the pair needing to be broken up.<\/p>\n<p>It also claimed the Duke of York once warned his nephew about marrying <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/meghan-markle-6633\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan<\/a><\/strong> and suggested it wouldn&#8217;t last long.<\/p>\n<p>However, a spokesperson for the Duke of Sussex strongly denied the claims.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can confirm <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/prince-harry-5826\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a> <\/strong>and Prince Andrew have never had a physical fight, nor did Prince Andrew ever make the comments he is alleged to have made about the Duchess of Sussex to Prince Harry,&#8221; a statement said.<\/p>\n<p>They said a legal letter had been sent to the Daily Mail due to &#8220;gross inaccuracies, damaging and defamatory remarks&#8221; in its reporting.<\/p>\n<p>The book &#8211; Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York &#8211; is billed as the first joint biography of Prince Andrew and ex-wife Sarah Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s said to be based on interviews with &#8220;over a hundred people who have never spoken before&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Harry &#8211; in his own 2023 book Spare &#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/harrys-book-leaked-prince-alleges-he-was-physically-attacked-by-william-12780164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made his own claims<\/a><\/strong> of an altercation with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/prince-william-6209\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince William<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He said his brother once knocked him to the floor amid a confrontation over Meghan&#8217;s &#8220;rude&#8221; and &#8220;abrasive&#8221; behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It all happened so fast. So very fast,&#8221; Harry wrote in the book.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor. I landed on the dog&#8217;s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out,&#8221; the prince added.<\/p>\n<p>Harry claimed his brother wanted him to hit him back &#8220;but I chose not to&#8221;, and that William later returned and apologised.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more from Sky News:<\/strong><br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/search-for-british-woman-who-disappeared-from-greek-beach-13406722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Search for British woman missing in Greece<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/two-year-old-girl-found-alive-in-suitcase-in-new-zealand-as-woman-appears-in-court-charged-with-neglect-13406603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two-year-old girl found alive in suitcase<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/download-app\" target=\"blank\" data-tracking-label=\"ui-app-promo-download-link\" class=\"ui-app-promo sdc-article-widget\" data-type=\"\" data-component-name=\"ui-app-promo\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Duke Of Sussex has described his <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/harrys-broken-relationship-with-royal-family-how-did-we-get-here-13360113\" target=\"_blank\">relationship with his family<\/a><\/strong> as extremely strained after he quit as a working royal and took legal action against the media, and over the removal of his UK police protection.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed earlier this year <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/prince-harry-says-he-wants-reconciliation-with-royal-family-but-says-king-wont-speak-to-me-13360011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the King wouldn&#8217;t speak to him<\/a><\/strong> and there had &#8220;been so many disagreements between myself and some of my family&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry has denied having a fight with Prince Andrew after it was claimed &#8220;punches were thrown&#8221; between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-317132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-royal","9":"tag-royal-families","10":"tag-royal-family","11":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114970523300302224","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317132","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=317132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}