Although the tabloids made it seem as though Harry and Prince William began drifting apart when the younger brother began dating Meghan Markle, Harry said that's not the case. While Harry maintained he loves his older brother "deeply," he also acknowledged "there has been a lot of pain between the two of us, especially the last six years." He went on to say that he didn't write "Spare" to hurt his family, but rather to "give a full picture of the situation as we were growing up" and to squash the "idea that somehow my wife was the one that destroyed the relationship between these two brothers."
Harry said the boys basically lived separate lives after Princess Diana died and had a sibling rivalry, recounting the time when William told Harry to pretend they didn't know each other when they began attending the same school. "At the time, it hurt. I couldn't make sense of it. I was like, 'What do you mean? We're now at the same school. Like, I haven't seen you for ages, now we get to hang out together.' He's like, 'No, no, no, when we're at school, we don't know each other.' And I took that personally."
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