{"id":406095,"date":"2025-09-07T20:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/406095\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T20:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:27:10","slug":"prince-harrys-shocking-role-in-prince-william-princess-kates-split-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/406095\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry&#8217;s shocking role in Prince William, Princess Kate&#8217;s split revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1341970_8109_Prince-Harry-Princess-Kate_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Prince Harrys shocking role in Prince William, Princess Kates split revealed by Grant Harrold\" width=\"1200\" height=\"686\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Prince Harry&#8217;s shocking role in Prince William, Princess Kate&#8217;s split revealed by Grant Harrold<\/p>\n<p>Prince Harry may have played a surprising part in Prince William and Kate Middleton\u2019s brief split.<\/p>\n<p>Grant Harrold, King Charles\u2019 former butler and author of The Royal Butler, told Us Weekly in a new report published September 6 that Harry\u2019s bond with Kate was so strong in the mid-2000s that he even imagined the two could have ended up together when William and Kate briefly called it quits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey got on so well,\u201d Harrold recalled. \u201cI remember, when [Prince William] and [Kate] separated \u2026 [Prince Harry] and [Kate] got on so well that I even thought that maybe Harry and her would get together. They were that close. They were best friends \u2026 So it could have been Harry and Catherine easily, I would have thought. But, you know, thankfully [William] got her back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead of stepping in himself, Harrold believes the Harry pushed his brother to reunite with the woman who would become his wife. \u201cHarry definitely would have said to his brother, \u2018You\u2019re crazy.\u2019 I\u2019m sure. I\u2019m convinced of it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>William and Kate rekindled their romance in 2008 before announcing their engagement in 2010. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the Duke of Sussex\u2019s current estrangement from his family, Harrold added that he hopes Harry reached out to Kate privately during her cancer diagnosis, noting, \u201cI\u2019d be horrified if he didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry&#8217;s shocking role in Prince William, Princess Kate&#8217;s split revealed by Grant Harrold Prince Harry may have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,533,2832,532,2831,7710,519,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-406095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-kate-middleton","12":"tag-prince-of-wales","13":"tag-prince-william","14":"tag-princess-of-wales","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-uk-royal-family","18":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115164901823614941","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406095","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=406095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}