Prince William and Harry’s ‘reunion’: Duke of Sussex joined his brother at uncle’s funeral after secret dash to the UK from LA… but did they speak?H
Princes William and Harry both attended the funeral for their uncle Robert Fellowes, it has been revealed, amid an ongoing rift between the estranged brothers.
Locals in Snettisham, Nortfolk say the pair were both in attendance yesterday at a service for Lord Fellowes, who died last month.
This is the first time the royal siblings have been seen together in two years, since the Queen’s funeral in 2022.
The last time the warring brothers were in the same room as one another was for the King’s Coronation – more than a year ago.
Earlier reports suggested the Duke of Sussex would not fly to the UK for his uncle’s funeral because of security concerns after losing a legal fight to retain his royal protection after leaving the UK.
Despite this, new reports say Harry, 39, did in fact make a discreet dash to Britain to attend the service for the 82-year-old who was their mother Diana’s brother-in-law.
The Duke is believed to have flown from Los Angeles International Airport on August 27.
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Prince William and Harry are reported to have both attended the funeral for their uncle, Robert Fellowes (file photo)
This is the first time the royal siblings have been seen together in two years, since the Queen’s funeral in 2022. Kate, William, Harry and Meghan are pictured together at Windsor Castle in the days following the Queen’s death at Balmoral Castle
The Queen’s Funeral Procession passes Buckingham Palace, with William, Prince of Wales and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex in 2022
Prince William and his brother Harry are pictured in 2017 for a Grenfell Tower memorial
Prince Harry and Prince William on a walkabout ahead of the royal wedding of Harry and Meghan Markle on May 18, 2018
The two brothers have barely spoken to each other since the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (pictured in 2018) left the UK for the US and abandoned royal duties
Locals in Snettisham, Nortfolk say the pair were both in attendance at a service for Lord Fellowes, who died last month, on Wednesday
Pictured: Lord Fellowes who died last month at the age of 82
Lord Fellowes (top left) with Princess Diana and her family in 1995. Sitting (from left): Diana, Lady Sarah McCorquodale (sister), Frances Shand Kydd (mother), and Jane Fellowes (sister). Standing (from left): Lord Fellowes, Charles, Earl Spencer (brother) and Neil McCorquodale
The rift was exacerbated by the publication of Harry’s memoir Spare in January last year that levelled accusations against his family
However, witnesses said they didn’t see the warring brothers speak.
A local in the area told The Sun: ‘I didn’t know they were there. They arrived very discreetly.’
Another said: ‘William and Harry were both there but we never saw them speak to each other and they were keeping their distance.’
They reportedly sat apart at the back of St Mary’s Church in Snettisham where the service for Eton-educated Lord Fellowes took place.
Sources spoke of how the pair arrived ‘very discreetly’ and that you wouldn’t have known they were there.
The two brothers have barely spoken to each other since the Duke and Duchess of Sussex left the UK for the US and abandoned royal duties.
The rift was exacerbated by the publication of Harry’s memoir Spare in January last year that levelled accusations against his family.
Harry claimed that William, 42, branded Meghan ‘difficult’, ‘rude’ and ‘abrasive’, and even accused him of pushing him into a dog bowl.
The Duke last visited the UK in May to attend a service at St Paul’s Cathedral marking ten years of the Invictus Games, the sports event he helped to launch for injured soldiers.
He previously returned to the UK in February to see his father, King Charles III, after he revealed his ongoing battle with an unspecified form of cancer.
However, he did not visit his father while back in London – despite being a stone’s throw from the royal residences in the capital.
Since then, Harry and his wife Meghan Markle have embarked on a pair of pseudo-royal tours, visiting Nigeria in May and Colombia earlier this month.
The youngest brother also reached out to William after his wife Kate Middleton’s shock cancer diagnosis earlier in the year.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were understood to have made contact with the Prince and Princess of Wales ‘privately’.
It was also claimed in the United States that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex only learnt about Kate’s condition at the same time the world heard the news.
Sources told the New York Post that the couple had ‘no idea’ about Kate’s illness.
Hours after the news, the couple released a short statement wishing the Princess of Wales and her family ‘health and healing’.
The couple said they hoped Kate and her family would be ‘able to do so privately and in peace’.
