Prince Harry said his brother Prince William and sister-in-law Kate Middleton urged him to wear the Nazi uniform he wore to a fancy dress party in 2005 and “laughed out loud” when they saw him don- a.
The allegation is detailed in Harry’s upcoming memoir, “Spare,” according to Page Six. Harry wrote that he couldn’t decide between a regular pilot’s uniform and that of a Nazi, the media reported, prompting the young prince to call his brother for help.
“I called Willy and Kate and asked them what they thought. The Nazi uniform, they said,” Harry wrote.
When she tried on their uniform, she wrote: “They both screamed. Worse than Willy’s shirt! Much more ridiculous! Which, again, was the point.”
Harry was 20 when he attended the ‘Native and Colonial’ themed costume party. Tabloid photos showed him with a red swastika band across his bicep. His brother was dressed like a lion.
“I felt so embarrassed afterwards,” Harry said in the Netflix documentary series Harry & Meghan, which premiered in December.
All I wanted to do was get it right,” she continued. “I sat down and talked with the chief rabbi in London, which had a profound impact on me. I went to Berlin and spoke to a Holocaust survivor.”
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Royal historian Robert Lacey, in his 2020 book Battle of Brothers, said the trial incident marked the beginning of the rift between Harry and William.
“Harry chose his suit with his older brother – the 22-year-old future King William V, who had laughed his way up to Highgrove (Charles’ country home) with his younger brother on who allegedly mentored him — and then went partying together,” Lacey wrote on Page Six.
“For the first time, their relationship suffered and they barely spoke,” a former aide told Lacey. “Harry resented William going down so easily.”
Harry, now 38, has since stepped back from the royal family. He told Oprah Winfrey in March that he felt “caught in the system” as his wife Meghan Markle contemplated suicide and endured concerns about their son’s skin color.
Harry joins ITV’s Anderson Cooper and Tom Bradby for interviews to be broadcast on January 8, the third anniversary of Harry and Meghan announcing their exit from the royal family.
Harry’s memoirs will be officially released on January 10.
