Does the Fight Between Princes William and Harry Mirror the One Between Charles and Diana?

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If there's one key takeaway from Spare, Prince Harry's memoir, it's that the relationship between Prince William and Prince Harry has deteriorated dramatically in the past few years—to the point of the brothers no longer being on speaking terms.

Tina Brown, the author of The Palace Papers, opened up to Bustle about what she thinks of the revelations within Harry's memoir. Mainly: Brown thinks that William's attitude towards Harry mirrors Charles's jealousy of Diana years ago.

"There's no doubt that Harry and Meghan jostled the Cambridges and were very unsettling to them," Brown says. "I don't know if there is room for both of them. If you are the number one, and you're going to be the king, you don't want the more charismatic brother and his more charismatic wife to be out there eclipsing you. In a strange way, what William went through was sort of what his father went through with Diana. He's like, 'I don't want to be upstaged.' I don't think that it's such a surprising thing."

Charles, infamously, was jealous of Diana on their tour of Australia in 1983.

As Diana told Martin Bashir in the controversial 1995 Panorama interview, "The pressure on us both as a couple with the media was phenomenal, and misunderstood by a great many people. We'd be going round Australia, for instance, and all you could hear was, 'Oh, she's on the other side.'" She continued, "Now, if you're a man like my husband, a proud man, you mind about that if you hear it every day for four weeks. And you feel low about it, instead of feeling happy and sharing it."

When Bashir asked Diana if she was "flattered" by the attention, the Princess replied, "No, not particularly, because with the media attention came a lot of jealousy—a great deal of complicated situations arose because of that."

Prince Harry talks about this, too, in his memoir, with regards to Meghan, saying Charles wasn't ready for someone to steal the spotlight. "Pa might have dreaded the rising cost of maintaining us, but what he really couldn’t stomach was someone new dominating the monarchy, grabbing the limelight, someone shiny and new coming in and overshadowing him. And Camilla. He’d lived through that before, and had no interest in living through it again," Harry writes.

Brown, however, is saying it was William (and Kate) who were anxious about Harry and Meghan's popularity—mirroring Charles's jealousy of Diana's popularity decades ago.

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