{"id":947587,"date":"2026-05-09T04:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/947587\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T04:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:50:18","slug":"prince-harrys-brutal-take-on-the-middleton-country-bumpkin-life-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/947587\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry’s brutal take on the Middleton ‘country bumpkin’ life | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is believed that while the brothers had been close, Prince William<\/a> began spending more and more time with his wife Princess Catherine\u2019s family, especially once the couple had children, which reportedly was not something Harry was too happy about<\/a>. It is believed this is because Harry was spending less and less time with his brother, and therefore felt \u201cdisplaced\u201d.<\/p>\n

These are the claims put forward by royal author Tina Brown in her book The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor, the Truth and the Turmoil.<\/p>\n

Brown, who was reportedly given this insight by a former aide, wrote: \u201cHarry felt displaced by their bougie family unit, and couldn\u2019t understand his brother\u2019s obsession with his Middleton in-laws, whose Bucklebury world bored Harry to tears.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe [Waleses] had become a tight unit, and William a full-on Windsor country bumpkin.<\/p>\n

“On weekends when he wasn\u2019t chez Middleton, he was tramping the grounds of Anmer Hall, the red-brick Georgian mansion on the Sandringham Estate that the Queen gave the couple as a wedding present, wearing a flat cap and tweed jacket like his \u2018turnip toff\u2019 Norfolk farmer friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown wrote: \u201cFor his part, William felt that Harry\u2019s unabated Jack the Lad behaviour was getting tiresome.<\/p>\n

“He was less amused than the British public by either the strip billiards debacle in Las Vegas or Harry\u2019s ceaseless boozy nightclub forays with his rowdy friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis younger brother\u2019s recklessness exasperated him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harry and William are no longer on talking terms anymore<\/a>, and haven\u2019t been for some time. Their relationship began to display evident cracks after Harry married Meghan in 2018, and quit royal life in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is believed that while the brothers had been close, Prince William began spending more and more time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[447,15676,264404,264403,5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-947587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-prince-harry","9":"tag-prince-harry-prince-william","10":"tag-prince-harry-william-middleton-family","11":"tag-prince-harry-william-princess-catherine","12":"tag-royal","13":"tag-royal-families","14":"tag-royal-family","15":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947587","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=947587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}