Jonathan Sacerdoti told US
Weekly that tensions were obviously very high as Prince
Harry and Prince William unveiled Princess Diana’s statue at
Kensington Palace. The royal commentator also discussed the fact both brothers
did not give speeches as was originally planned and highlighted reports that
the Duke of Sussex would not provide a copy of his speech before the Royal
Family event.
Mr. Sacerdotti said:
“Well, it’s certainly hard for any of us to know what goes on behind
closed doors.
“And they really
exercised extreme control over the media at that event.
“They didn’t give live
pictures to anybody, the pictures were recorded and then released a little bit
later, within I think an hour of the actual event taking place.
“There was virtually
nobody there they said of course it was because of the coronavirus restrictions
and so it was a very low-key event really. There was absolutely no chance of
anything being shown or seen or recorded that they didn’t want to be released
to the world.
“So on that basis, you can
tell that obviously tensions were very high and there was perhaps some fear of
not knowing what would happen.”
He continued: “And there
had also been some rumors in the press that Harry had refused to give this text
of the speech he was going to give to anybody to check and in the end, there
were no speeches.
“So again it’s hard to
know if that was just a baseless rumor or if perhaps that’s why there were no
speeches nobody really knows. The two did look relaxed when they were in
Kensington Palace in the gardens at the unveiling of the statue and so one
might assume that they had some discussions in private and again.
“It would have been a
very good time to do that.”
It is currently unclear why
both Prince Harry and Prince William did not end up giving speeches at the unveiling
of the statue.
