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Prince William, Prince Harry, and Meghan Markle stand together during their marriage in St George’s Chapel.<\/p>\n
April 27 2025, Published 10:59 a.m. ET<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Prince Harry and Meghan Markle tied the knot in a lavish ceremony in 2018. Prince William proudly stood by Harry\u2019s side as his best man, returning the favor after his brother fulfilled the same duty at his wedding.<\/a> In his memoir, Harry, however, recalls \u2018feeling sick\u2019 over his brother’s odd behavior just hours before the royal wedding. <\/p>\n Article continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p>\n In Spare, Harry recounted reminding William of their tradition, which they undertook on the night of William\u2019s wedding. As reported by the Daily Record,<\/a> both brothers had dined together before greeting the public. Before Harry’s big day, however, William allegedly questioned their need to greet the masses. He allegedly said, \u201cWhy are you even saying hello to the crowds, Harold?\u201d leading Harry to confess, \u201cI felt sick about it.\u201d The Duke admitted that even though William was in two minds about greeting the people, he eventually did budge. He added, \u201cMaybe Granny intervened,\u201d speculating that the late Queen helped William change his mind.<\/p>\n Article continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Harry also recalled how he was sipping drinks with pals at the Coworth Park Hotel, where he spent the night before the wedding. He claimed William, who was supposed to join them, cancelled at the \u2018last minute\u2019 citing \u2018Kate and the kids.\u2019 The Prince of Wales also refused to dine with Harry and stay the night, allegedly saying, \u201cSorry, Harold. Can’t. Kids.\u201d Despite William\u2019s odd behavior before the nuptials, all went well the next day.<\/p>\n Article continues below advertisement<\/p>\n While William fulfilled his bestman duties well, he was reportedly not the first choice for it. According to Harper\u2019s Bazaar<\/a>, Harry revealed in his memoir that he had chosen his \u2018old mate Charlie\u2019 as his best man<\/a>. He speculated that this may have had something to do with William\u2019s behavior before his wedding. Harry penned, \u201cWas he feeling bad about not being my best man? Was he upset that I’d asked my old mate Charlie? (The Palace put out the story that Willy was the best man, as they’d done with me when he and Kate married.) Could that be part of it?\u201d Reportedly, the Palace wanted William to be the best man so as not to have the news coverage focus on an outsider.<\/p>\n Article continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p>\n William allegedly took his role as best man too seriously. As reported by The Sunday Times,<\/a> he pulled a prank <\/a>on Harry at the reception and \u2018floored\u2019 some of the guests in the process. Harry, at the time, had fallen off a ladder while changing a lightbulb, so William cheekily tied a ladder to the back of his brother and Markle\u2019s car as a nod to the incident. Sadly, his relationship with Harry has drastically changed after his wedding to Markle. In Spare, Harry mentioned that William once called Markle \u2018difficult,\u2019 \u2018rude,\u2019 and \u2018abrasive\u2019 during a confrontation at his London home. The confrontation escalated to the point that William allegedly grabbed him ‘by the collar’ and ripped his necklace, knocking him ‘to the floor’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Source: Getty Images| Dominic Lipinski – WPA Pool Prince William, Prince Harry, and Meghan Markle stand together during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7721,7719,7718,7716,1501,7720,1281,447,7710,519,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-55030","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-duchess-of-sussex","10":"tag-duke-of-sussex","11":"tag-harry","12":"tag-heirs-spares","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-meghan","15":"tag-meghan-markle","16":"tag-prince-harry","17":"tag-royal-families","18":"tag-royal-family","19":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55030","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=55030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}