Prince Harry claims brother attacked him over wife Meghan

The Duke of Sussex says Prince William labelled his wife Meghan ‘rude’ and ‘difficult’, leading to a physical altercation between the two brothers which left Harry with injuries to his back.

Prince Harry has escalated the war of words with his family, claiming he was injured by the Prince of Wales during a fight over his marriage.

The Duke of Sussex says William physically attacked him in his London home after his brother labelled wife Meghan ‘rude’ and ‘difficult’.

In excerpts obtained by The Guardian from his new autobiography Spare, Harry claims he was confronted by an incensed William over his marriage to ‘abrasive’ American, Meghan Markle.

Harry, keen to hash out the ‘whole rolling catastrophe’, welcomed his brother into Nottingham Cottage in the grounds of Kensington Palace in 2019, revealing his older sibling was already ‘piping hot’.

The Prince of Wales complained about the behaviour of Meghan, Harry writes, replying he was ‘parrot[ing] the press narrative’, which saw the argument escalate.

The two started shouting over the top of each other, before Harry accused William of acting like an heir.

In his autobiography to be released next week, the Duke of Sussex claims brother William attacked him in his London home after an argument over wife Meghan.

The book is titled Spare as it is an aristocratic reference to the order of the Royals, with the first son in line to receive all titles and power, while the second son is a ‘spare’ should anything happen to the first.

The Duke explained to his brother he didn’t understand the difficulty of fulfilling that role. William then claimed he was trying to help, before Harry replied: “Are you serious? Is that what you call this? Helping me?”

Harry then left the room, before the Prince followed him into his kitchen. He writes that he was scared as he attempted to hand a glass of water to his angry older sibling.

“Willy, I can’t speak to you when you’re like this,” he writes, before the future king “came at me”.

“He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor,” the Duke says in his autobiography. “I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out.”

Harry claims the physical altercation broke out after a furious William confronted him over Meghan.

Harry claims his brother was attempting to provoke him to hit him back, referring to fights they had as children. He says William left shortly after, before returning to apologise and leaving again.

He also claims William asked him not to tell Meghan about the incident.

The scuffle led to Harry suffering injuries to his back, he claims, with Meghan noticing the marks. He writes that she ‘wasn’t surprised’ by the melee, but was ‘terribly sad’.

It represents the first explosive story released from the highly-anticipated book to go on sale next week.

The New York Post also reports an excerpt from the autobiography where Harry claims the Prince of Wales convinced him to wear a Nazi costume at a party.

The Duke was infamously pictured by The Sun when he was 20 wearing a Swastika armband at the ‘Native and Colonial’ themed shindig, revealing in the upcoming book he was encouraged by his older brother.

He had been deciding between the SS uniform and a pilot outfit.

“I phoned Willy and Kate, asked what they thought. Nazi uniform, they said,” Harry writes, revealing he tried the suit on for them.

“They both howled. Worse than Willy’s leotard outfit! Way more ridiculous! Which, again, was the point.”

It is sure to further enrage the Royal Family, who were reportedly shocked by the recent Netflix special featuring the Sussexes which saw the pair claim they were blocked from seeing the Queen and their relatives ‘lied’ to protect William.