Social media users have joked about Prince Harry’s reported claims he had a fight with his brother – with some saying Wills ‘isn’t the most athletic’ and asking ‘who hasn’t had a tear up with their sibling?’
The Duke of Sussex is said to have described a stand-up row that ended with the Prince of Wales grabbing him by the collar and throwing him to the floor, shattering a dog bowl with his back.
Harry, 38, noted that during an argument in the kitchen of his London home, William called his wife Meghan ‘difficult, rude and abrasive,’ before the duo got into a physical scuffle and William tackled him to the ground.
‘He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor. I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me,’ the Guardian quoted Harry’s book.
William then allegedly told a ‘scared’ Harry: ‘I didn’t attack you, Harold’.
Twitter users quipped that the scene was reminiscent of a ‘royal rumble’, with most appearing to back Harry as the most likely to win.
‘Out of the two of them in a tear up, I think my money would be on Harry,’ one wrote.
‘I find it hard to believe William would have the measure of him.’ Another, Susan Godber, added: ‘We all know William isn’t the most athletic.’
Harry was deployed to Afghanistan in 2007 for ten weeks and worked as a forward air controller, coordinating airstrikes on Taliban positions.
In the extraordinary excerpt from Harry’s upcoming autobiography Spare, reported by the Guardian newspaper, Harry recalls what he describes as a physical attack by his sibling, which he claims left him with visible injuries, including ‘scrapes and bruises’.
The furious row allegedly broke out in the kitchen of his London home, Nottingham Cottage, in the grounds of Kensington Palace in 2019.
In the report of the book extract, Harry claims that William had then urged him to fight back, saying that is what would happen when they scrapped as children.
But the Duke of Sussex claims he refused, claiming that William left and then apologised.
