Prince Harry's memoir, Spare, was released on Tuesday, allowing the world to see in full detail his decades of anger at his position in the royal family and how he feels he has been treated by them.
Bereaved boy, troubled teenager, wartime soldier, unhappy royal — many facets of Prince Harry are revealed in his hard-hitting memoir, often in eyebrow-raising detail.
The Associated Press describes his memoir as “The Americanisation of Prince Harry”. Others have called it a "pathetic attempt" to vilify his stepmother, Queen Consort Camilla, and a "sad book" that cannot fail to leave the reader more sympathetic to the prince.
It details his trauma sparked by the death of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, his life in uniform as he embarked on a tour in Afghanistan and his life after meeting Meghan Markle.
Before publication, many of the more lurid claims were pored over after the book was accidentally put on sale early in Spain.
They include:
· Prince Harry was injured after he was physically attacked by Prince William during a row. The Duke of Cambridge had called his brother's wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, "rude, difficult and abrasive"
· His demand that his father should not marry Camilla Parker Bowles and how she waged a PR campaign to "gain the crown"
· His anger that the royal family would plant stories in the press to benefit themselves to the detriment of himself and his wife
· Prince Harry details his dabbling with drugs, including cocaine, marijuana and magic mushrooms
· He reveals he killed 25 Taliban while serving in Afghanistan
· The Fab Four — the brothers and their wives — was an illusion as the Duchess of Cambridge did not hit it off with Meghan from the outset
· His father — now King Charles III — broke the news of his mother’s death in a car crash, but didn’t give his son a hug
Here are some of the new revelations, allegations, titbits and anecdotes he relates throughout the book:
Why Prince Harry wrote Spare
The prince begins the book with a scene shortly after his announcement he was leaving royal life, in which he met his father, then Prince Charles, and brother, Prince William, in Frogmore Gardens in the grounds of the royal estate at Windsor. He tried to set out his feelings and both replied that they did not understand his reasons for turning his back on life as a working royal and leaving his country behind. The book is his explanation.
Meeting Dodi Fayed and his father Mohamed Al Fayed
Prince Harry writes about what it was like to meet Dodi Fayed, the boyfriend who died alongside her in the Paris tunnel in August 1997. He says Dodi had always been described as "Mummy's friend".
"Nice enough bloke, I thought." The brothers were present when Princess Diana first met Dodi in St Tropez and had enjoyed playing on jet-skis. Dodi gave their mother a diamond bracelet "which she wore a lot". "Then he faded from my consciousness," he writes.
He met Dodi's father, Mohamed Al Fayed around the same time. While detailing how he circled London one night in a helicopter, "someone on the ground hit us with a laser pen. I was disoriented. And furious ... I was also perversely grateful for the stray memory it knocked loose. Mohamed Al Fayed, giving Willy and me laser pens from Harrods, which he owned. He was the father of Mummy's boyfriend. so maybe he was trying to win us over. If so, job done. We thought those lasers were genius."
King Charles's health regime
The prince reveals the dangers of entering his father's quarters at Balmoral without knocking. He is likely to be being dressed by his valet or worse still "you might blunder in as he was doing his headstands ... in just a pair of boxers" — exercises prescribed by a physio as a remedy for neck and back pain caused by polo injuries.
Prince Charles made him visit a rabbi after wearing Nazi costume
Prince William and his wife Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, laughed when Prince Harry suggested he would wear a Nazi uniform to a fancy dress party. When the pictures leaked into the press, causing a scandal, he phoned his father, whom he calls Pa. The prince writes: "He didn't gloss over the facts. 'Darling boy, how could you be so foolish'." He says his father described it as "the foolishness of youth" but sent him to visit the Chief rabbi of Britain as atonement. The prince writes that the rabbi "didn't mince words" as he condemned his actions and put his "stupidity" in historical context. "I'd arrived at his house feeling shame. I now felt something else, a bottomless self-loathing."
British military subjected Prince Harry to Muslim taunts to prepare him for possible capture in Afghanistan
He writes about an army exercise in Cornwall, one of “the last hurdles for flight crews and pilots before deployment” in Afghanistan, which simulated a helicopter crash-landing behind enemy lines.
He and his comrades were ambushed by a group of men in “camo jackets and black balaclavas”, who wrapped blacked-out ski goggles over their eyes and zip-tied their hands before interrogating them.
Role-playing captors were used in the exercise with a woman in a scarf, seeking to exploit the duke's mother’s friendship with Dodi Fayed in the weeks before her death in a Paris car accident in 1997. “She was wearing a shemagh over her face,” he writes. “She went on and on about something I didn’t understand. I couldn’t keep up.
“Then I realised. Mummy. She was talking about my mother. Your mother was pregnant when she died, eh? With your sibling? A Muslim baby!”
He said nothing, but “screamed with his eyes”, before she stormed out and one of the captors spat in his face. Senior officers later defended the exercise, saying “we felt you needed to be tested”, Prince Harry claims. “I didn’t answer,” he says. “But that took it a bit too far.”
Harry 'called in an air strike' on his father's car
During his training to be a Forward Air Controller in Afghanistan, the prince spent time on the Sandringham estate, where one of the royal family's palaces is set. Despite this, his father had never visited. "Giving me space, I guess."
"Then one day he looked up in the sky and saw a Typhoon aircraft doing low passes and he figured it must be me. So he got into his Audi and hurried over."
He writes how his father caught up with him and they had a "quick chat" before he left.
"He drove off. As he went down the track I told the Typhoon: New target. Grey Audi ... The Typhoon tracked Pa, did a low pass straight over him, almost shattering the windows of his Audi. But ultimately spared him. On my orders. It went on to blow a silver barn to smithereens."
Bullet magnet in Iraq
The prince was on the verge of quitting the British Army after the most senior general scrapped his deployment to Iraq following threats from insurgents.
After a happy cadetship and graduation from the Sandhurst Royal Military Academy, he was told he would be part of the UK deployment to Iraq in late 2006.
“Specifically southern Iraq. My unit would be relieving another unit, which had spent months doing advanced reconnaissance,” he writes. “Dangerous work, constantly dodging roadside IEDs and snipers.
“In that same month 10 British soldiers had been killed. In the previous six months, 40.”
He says two months after the announcement the plan was called off. He had become "the mother of all targets" or Iraqi snipers. "I'd become ... a bullet magnet."
Harry used laughing gas to 'enhance his calm' during son Archie's birth
The prince says he used laughing gas and ate Nando’s to “enhance his calm” during the birth of his son, Archie.
Writing about the scene at the private Portland Hospital in London in 2019, he says his wife Meghan was “so calm”.
He was calm too, he says. But he saw two ways of “enhancing” the state.
“One: Nando’s chicken. (Brought by our bodyguards),” he writes. “Two: A canister of laughing gas beside Meg’s bed.
“I took several slow, penetrating hits. Meg, bouncing on a giant purple ball, a proven way of giving nature a push, laughed and rolled her eyes.
“I took several more hits and now I was bouncing too.”
Queen phoned Meghan to order her to resolve troubles with her father
The queen once called Meghan to talk about her father, Thomas Markle, according to Prince Harry’s new book.
“She was responding to a letter Meg had written her, asking for advice and help,” he writes. Meghan told her she did not know how to make the press stop interviewing him, “enticing him to say horrid things”.
“Granny now suggested that Meg forget the press, go and see her father, try to talk some sense into him,” he writes.
However, Meghan explained that he lived in a Mexican border town and she did not know how she would get through the airport without being seen by the press.
“Granny acknowledged the many problems with this plan.
“In that case, perhaps write him a letter? Pa agreed. Splendid idea.”
That letter was later published by The Mail on Sunday and led to a series of legal cases.
Harry shops at TK Maxx
He would shop for “everyday casual clothes” from TK Maxx.
Prince Harry said he received an official clothing allowance from “Pa” each year, but it was strictly for formal wear, such as suits, ties and ceremonial outfits.
For more casual clothes he would shop at the “discount store”, where he could snap up just-out-of-season clothes for bargain prices. He said he was “particularly fond” of its annual sale, when the shop would be flush with items that were just off-season or slightly damaged, from Gap or J.Crew.
The late queen used a lift at Balmoral
He describes spending time at Balmoral Castle, where the late Queen Elizabeth II would spend her summers. Describing the castle, he says: "In the heart of this main chamber was the grand staircase. Sweeping, dramatic, seldom used. Whenever Granny headed up to her bedroom on the second floor, corgis at her heel, she preferred the lift. The corgis preferred it too."
He also describes how he and his brother would bow as they passed a statue of Queen Victoria which was placed at the top of one set of stairs.
Prince Harry was given Diana's hair as proof she was dead
He explains in great detail how the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, has haunted and traumatised him. He refused to believe she was dead for years, and even demanded his driver take him through the tunnel in Paris where she was killed so he could relive it.
He also says that in the immediate aftermath of her death, he had a "pivotal encounter" with his aunt Sarah. She had two tiny blue boxes for the boys containing their mother's hair.
"Aunt Sarah explained that, while in Paris, she'd clipped two locks from Mummy's head. So there it was. Proof. She's really gone."
Told to write a 'final letter' to his mother
He sets out his often unhappy times at school, where he did not excel, and stood out because of his royal status.
"I've been told the matrons asked me to write a 'final' letter to Mummy. I have a vague memory of wanting to protest that she was still alive, and yet not doing so, for fear they would think I was mad".
Queen never hugged her grandchildren
Prince Harry leaves readers in no doubt that his grandmother, the queen, was always on duty. Emotion and physical contact were never an option. To the extent that after a six-month tour away from the UK she gave her then six-year-old son Charles a stiff handshake on her return. Prince Harry reveals that he was never able to give her a hug. Indeed, while she was enjoying the celebrations for her golden jubilee, including Brian May playing God Save the Queen from the roof of Buckingham Palace, she appeared to relish the occasion and the music. “Sitting directly behind her, I couldn’t help thinking the same thing. To see her tapping her foot, and swaying in time, I wanted to hug her, though of course I didn’t. Out of the question. I never had done and couldn’t imagine any circumstance under which such an act might be sanctioned."
Harry's troubles with being 'a ginger'
At Eton he once let a friend shave off his hair. "When the cutter was done I looked down, saw a dozen pyramids of ginger on the floor, like red volcanoes from a plane and knew I'd made a legendary mistake."
Firework fights
He sets out how he, his brother and friends would have pretend battles which turned into play fights before escalating. "Over time the scraps became more pitched. Small-arms fire was introduced. We'd hurl roman candles at each other, make rocket launchers from golf-ball tubes, stage night battles. I can still smell the smoke and hear the hiss as a projectile rocketed towards a victim."
Wished he'd asked the Queen Mother more questions
He describes an evening at Balmoral when as a teenager he sipped a gin and tonic with his "Gan-gan", as he called the Queen Mother. "I wish I could recall specifically what we talked about. I wish I'd asked more questions. She'd been the War Queen ... famous for saying that, no matter how bad things got, she'd never, ever leave England, and people loved her for it. I loved her for it. I loved my country and the idea of declaring you'd never leave struck me as wonderful."
His dislike of Diana's butler Paul Burrell
He describes how he would receive office paperwork from his father stamped "ATT HRH PRINCE HENRY OF WALES", his official name.
"One day the package contained a series of memos from the Palace comms team about a delicate matter. Mummy's former butler had penned a tell-all, which actually told nothing. It was merely one man's self-justifying, self-centring version of events. My mother once called this butler a dear friend, trusted him implicitly. We did too. Now this. He was milking her disappearance for money. It made my blood boil."
Outranking the heir
After "passing out", or graduating from army training at Sandhurst, he became Second Lieutenant Wales of the Blues and Royals, part of the Household Cavalry, bodyguards to the monarch. His grandmother.
He describes how the queen attended the parade for the first time in decades, so her appearance "was a dazzling honour".
"And Willy saluted. He was at Sandhurst too now. A fellow cadet. He couldn't resort to his typical attitude when sharing an institution, couldn't pretend not to know me — or he'd be insubordinate. For one brief moment, Spare outranked Heir. Granny inspected the troops. When she came to me, she said: 'Oh ... hello'."
Scary Princess Margaret
Prince Harry writes how his great aunt, Margaret, once gave him a “cold-blooded” present for Christmas, a biro pen.
“Standing before my pile I chose to open the smallest present first, from Aunt Margo. 'I do hope you like it, Harry.' I tore off the paper. It was …a biro? 'I said Oh. A biro. Wow.' She said: 'Yes. A biro.' I said: 'Thank you so much.' But it wasn’t just any biro, she pointed out. It had a tiny rubber fish wrapped around it. I said: 'Oh. A fish biro!' OK. I told myself: 'That is cold-blooded.'"
He should have been friends with her. “We had so much in common. Two spares. Her relationship with Granny wasn’t an exact analogue of mine with Willy, but pretty close." His early memories of her were that he felt “nothing” for her, “except a bit of pity and a lot of jumpiness”. “She could kill a houseplant with one scowl,” he writes.
Mesmerised by the Koh-i-Noor diamond
At the funeral of the Queen Mother, which was a difficult reminder of his mother's funeral, he said his eyes kept going to the top of "Gan-Gan's coffin, where they'd set the crown. Its three diamonds and jewelled cross winked in the spring sunlight. At the centre of the cross was a diamond the size of a cricket ball. Not just a diamond, the Great Diamond of the World, a 105-carat monster called the Koh-i-Noor. Largest diamond ever seen by human eyes. 'Acquired' by the British empire at its zenith. Stolen, some thought. I'd heard it was mesmerising, and I'd heard it was cursed. Men fought for it, died for it, and thus the curse was said to be masculine. Only women were permitted to wear it."
Harry the hero friend
The prince writes how he was at Clarence House on the phone to a friend called Thomas recalling old times, when his friend began screaming. "Angry voices, a scuffle, a struggle. I put the phone on speaker, shot down the corridor, burst into the police room. I shouted that my mate was in trouble ... It was obvious Thomas was being mugged." He then goes on to describe how he and several bodyguards raced to his location in Chelsea. "Beaten. shaken. We took him to the nearest police station, where he signed a statement. Then we drove him home. Along the way he kept thanking me for coming to his rescue. I hugged him tightly. What are friends for."
His romance with Chelsy Davy hits the buffers
Prince Harry talks about his various relationships, but particularly his fondness for Chelsy Davy, his first public girlfriend. He was concerned that she would not be able to cope with royal life if their courtship went further. "She phoned me and said people were tailing her everywhere and it was driving her crazy. She couldn't imagine how they always knew where she was and where she'd be. She was freaking out." He discovered that a tracking device had been placed under her car. "Chels said again that she just wasn't sure if she was up for this. A lifetime of being stalked? What could I say? I'd miss her, so much. But I completely understood her desire for freedom. If I had a choice, I wouldn't want this life either."
Prince Harry's post-traumatic stress issues
He reveals how he suffered panic attacks in 2013, toggled with bouts of debilitating lethargy. Hours before a speech he would begin to sweat then his mind would buzz "with ear and fantasies of running away". He feared the day would come when he would run offstage or burst out of a room. Getting dressed in a suit was enough to trigger an attack.
He searched online for an answer and realised his problems stemmed from his mother's death.
"I kept trying to self-diagnose, to put a name to what was wrong with me ... when the answer was right under my nose. I'd met so many soldiers, so many young men and women suffering from post-traumatic stress, and I'd heard them describe how hard it was to leave the house.
"Despite all my work with wounded soldiers, all my efforts on their behalf, all my struggles ... it never dawned on me that I was a wounded soldier. And my war didn't begin in Afghanistan. It began in August 1997."
Meghan ordered him to address his problems
Early in their relationship, Meghan made it clear to him he needed therapy. After drinking too much wine "the conversation took an unexpected turn, I became touchy. Then angry. Disproportionately, sloppily angry. Meg said something I took the wrong way ... I snapped at her, spoke to her harshly — cruelly. As the words left my mouth I could feel everything in the room come to a stop ... Meg walked out of the room, disappearing for a full fifteen minutes. I went and found her upstairs. She was calm, but said in a quiet level tone that she would never stand for being spoken to like that."
Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, through the years - in pictures
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Doria Ragland, Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, attend the Ms Foundation Women of Vision Awards in New York City. Getty -
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan attend a basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Memphis Grizzlies in Los Angeles in April. Getty -
The royal couple speak onstage at the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Gala in New York in December 2022. Getty -
Prince Harry and Meghan watch as the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II is placed into the hearse following the state funeral service at Westminster Abbey in central London in September 2022. AP -
Prince Harry and Meghan pay their respects at the Palace of Westminster. Getty -
Prince Harry, Meghan and Kate, Princess of Wales, attend a service for the reception of Queen Elizabeth's coffin at Westminster Hall. AFP -
The Princess of Wales, Prince William, Prince Harry and Meghan meet members of the public outside Windsor Castle. Getty -
Prince Harry and Meghan leave after a service of thanksgiving for the queen. Getty -
Prince Harry and Meghan at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York in September 2021. AP -
Prince Harry and Meghan on the cover of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world edition, in September 2021. Reuters -
Prince Harry and Meghan are interviewed by Oprah Winfrey in March 2021. Reuters -
Prince Harry and Meghan shared this image on social media in February 2021 to announce they were expecting their second child. AFP -
Prince Harry and Meghan visit Canada House, London, in January 2020. Getty -
Prince Harry and Meghan visit Auwal Mosque on Heritage Day during their royal tour of South Africa in September 2019. Getty -
Prince Harry, Meghan and their son Archie Mountbatten-Windsor in South Africa in September 2019. Getty -
Prince Harry and Meghan meet Beyonce Knowles-Carter and Jay-Z at the European Premiere of Disney's The Lion King at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, London, in July 2019. Getty -
Prince Harry and Meghan pose for a photo with the New York Yankees before their baseball game against the Boston Red Sox at London Stadium in June 2019. Getty -
Prince Harry and Meghan pose with their newborn son Archie in St George's Hall at Windsor Castle in May 2019. Getty -
Meghan, joined by her mother Ms Ragland, shows her new son to Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip at Windsor Castle in May 2019. AP -
Prince Harry and Meghan officially open Number 7, a Feeding Birkenhead citizen’s supermarket and community cafe in Merseyside in January 2019. Getty -
Prince William, the Princess of Wales, Meghan and Prince Harry attend a Christmas Day church service at the Church of St Mary Magdalene on the Sandringham estate in December 2018. Getty -
Prince William, Prince Harry, Meghan and the Duchess of Cambridge attend a service marking the centenary of the First World War armistice at Westminster Abbey in November 2018. Getty -
Prince Harry and Meghan visit Redwoods Tree Walk in October 2018 in Rotorua, New Zealand. Getty -
Prince Harry and Meghan visit an exhibition of Tongan handicrafts at the Fa'onelua Convention Centre in October 2018 in Nuku'alofa, Tonga. Getty -
Prince Harry and Meghan visit the University of the South Pacific in October 2018 in Suva, Fiji. Getty -
Prince Harry and Meghan address the public during a Community Event at Victoria Park in October 2018 in Dubbo, Australia. Getty -
Prince Harry and Meghan meet a koala during a visit to Taronga Zoo in October 2018 in Sydney, Australia. Getty -
Prince Harry and Meghan arrive at the University of Chichester's Engineering and Digital Technology Park during an official visit to West Sussex in October 2018. Getty -
The queen, Meghan, Prince Harry, Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge watch the RAF 100th anniversary fly-past from the balcony of Buckingham Palace in July 2018. Getty -
Prince Harry and Meghan on their wedding day in May 2018. Getty -
Prince Harry places a wedding ring on his new wife's finger. Getty -
Meghan and Prince Harry head to their evening wedding reception at Frogmore House. Getty -
Prince Harry and Meghan walk through the corridors of the Palace of Holyroodhouse on their way to a reception for young people at the Palace in February 2018 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Getty -
Prince Harry and his then-fiancee Meghan visit Nottingham for their first official public engagement together in December 2017. Getty
She asked him where it had come from, if he'd ever heard adults speak that way while he was growing up.
"I cleared my throat, looked away. Yes.
"She wasn't going to tolerate that kind of partner. That kind of life. She laid it all out, super-clear. We both knew my anger hadn't been caused by anything to do with our conversation ...
"I've tried therapy, I told her. Willy told me to go. Never found the right person. Didn't work.
"No, she said softly. Try again."
Royals compete to appear the busiest
Prince Harry says certain members of the royal family were “obsessed” with the annual record of official engagements called the Court Circular. He says they "feverishly" strived to notch up the most public duties, which would be tallied up each year and compared in the press. He says the daily list of royal engagements is a joke because it was self-reported and "rigged".
He did not name anyone but said that although the Court Circular was not discussed directly by the Windsors it caused tension under the surface as the end of the year approached.
“The Court Circular was an ancient document, but it had lately morphed into a circular firing squad,” Harry writes of his experience at Christmas 2013. “It didn’t create the feelings of competitiveness that ran in my family, but it amplified them, weaponised them.
"Certain members had become obsessed, feverishly striving to have the highest number of official engagements in the Circular each year, no matter what, and they’d succeeded largely by including things that weren’t, strictly speaking, engagements, recording public interactions that were mere blips, the kinds of things Willy and I wouldn’t dream of including.
“Which was essentially why the Court Circular was a joke.” He said it was "grossly unfair" to be "publicly flogged for how much Pa" permitted us to do.
The Princess Royal is often labelled the hardest-working royal after regularly having the most official duties in the Court Circular each year, followed by King Charles.
William competed for publicity
After leaving the army, Prince Harry set about establishing the International Warrior Games. He believed that as his brother was essentially on paternity leave, it wouldn't clash with any of his work.
"I reached out to Willy, expecting him to be thrilled. He was sorely irritated. He wished I'd run all this by him first. He complained that I'd be using up all the funds in the Royal Foundation. 'That's absurd,' I spluttered...
"What was going on here? I wondered.
"Then I realised: My God, sibling rivalry. I put a hand over my eyes. Had we not got past this yet? The whole Heir versus Spare thing."
Prince William and Prince Harry through the years - in pictures
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Prince William and Prince Harry join Queen Elizabeth II's funeral procession towards St George's Chapel in September 2022 in Windsor. Getty Images -
The royal brothers attend a vigil in honour of the queen at Westminster Hall, central London. Getty Images -
Prince William, his wife Catherine, Princess of Wales, Prince Harry, and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, at Westminster Hall as the queen's coffin is carried in. Getty Images -
The princes and their wives on the Long Walk at Windsor Castle, heading to meet mourners who had gathered and left tributes to Queen Elizabeth. Getty Images -
Prince William and Prince Harry unveil a statue they commissioned of their mother Princess Diana in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace, in July 2021. Getty Images -
The princes at the ceremonial procession during the funeral of Prince Philip at Windsor Castle in April 2021. Getty Images -
The princes are joined by their wives for a Commonwealth Day service in March 2020 in London. Getty Images -
(L-R) Prince William, Sir David Attenborough, Prince Charles — now king — and Prince Harry attend the world premiere of Our Planet at London's Natural History Museum in April 2019. Getty Images -
The princes and their wives leave a Christmas Day service at the Church of St Mary Magdalene, Sandringham, in December 2018. Getty Images -
Prince William and Prince Harry attend the opening of the Greenhouse Sports Centre in 2018 in London. Getty Images -
Prince William and Prince Harry watch the RAF 100th anniversary flypast from the balcony of Buckingham Palace alongside the queen, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. Getty Images -
Prince William, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and Prince Harry attend an Anzac Day service at Westminster Abbey in 2018. Getty Images -
Prince Harry with his best man, Prince William, as they wait for the start of his wedding ceremony to Meghan in 2018. Getty Images -
The princes race against each other at a London Marathon training day at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in 2017. Getty Images -
The princes try out light sabres during a tour of the Star Wars sets at Pinewood studio, London, in 2016. Getty Images -
Prince Harry, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince William raise their wands on the set used to depict Diagon Alley in the Harry Potter films. Getty Images -
The princes take part in the late queen's diamond jubilee celebrations at Buckingham Palace in 2012. Getty Images -
Prince Harry, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince William wave from the royal barge Spirit of Chartwell in 2012. Getty Images -
Prince William takes the hand of his bride Kate, followed by Prince Harry and Pippa Middleton as they walk down the aisle of Westminster Abbey in 2011. Getty Images -
The princes chat before the wedding in 2011. Getty Images -
The princes pose with David Beckham at an FA reception in Johannesburg, South Africa. Getty Images -
The princes on a visit to a classroom lit by oil lamps in Semongkong, Lesotho, in 2010. Getty Images -
The princes celebrate a try during the 2007 Rugby World Cup final between England and South Africa in 2007. Getty Images -
The princes pose for an official photograph for the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla in 2005. Getty Images -
The princes follow the coffin of their grandmother and Princess Diana's mother, Frances Shand Kydd, in 2004. Getty Images -
Queen Elizabeth waves to the crowd from the balcony of Buckingham Palace as Prince Harry and Prince William look on after attending the Trooping of the Colour ceremony in 2003. Getty Images -
Prince Charles and his sons William and Harry appear at a photo call in the Swiss village of Klosters at the start of his annual skiing holiday in 2002. Getty Images -
Princes William and Harry appear with the Queen Mother during celebrations to mark her 101st birthday in 2001. Getty Images -
Prince Philip, Prince William, Earl Spencer, Prince Harry and Prince Charles follow the coffin of Princess Diana in September 1997. Getty Images -
Prince William and Prince Harry pose with Princess Diana and Prince Charles on Prince William's first day at Eton College in 1995. Getty Images -
Princess Diana with the young princes at the piano in Kensington Palace in 1985. Getty Images -
Prince Charles and Princess Diana with their sons aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia in Venice in 1985. Getty Images
