Prince Harry Reveals Prince William Wasn’t Actually His Best Man—the Palace Lied
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Soooooo, up until now the general assumption has been that Prince Harry was Prince William’s best man at his royal wedding to Kate Middleton and that Prince William was Prince Harry’s best man at his royal wedding to Meghan Markle. But apparently, not so much.
In his new book Spare, Harry revealed that he actually picked his “old friend” Charlie to be best man and that the royals straight-up lied about it. He also claimed that William didn’t show up to drinks the night before his wedding due to “sulking.”
“I asked what was really happening," Harry writes, via The Mirror. “Was he sulking because he wasn’t my best man? Was he annoyed because I had asked my old friend Charlie instead? (‘The royal family announced Willy was the best man as they had done with me when he and Kate got married. Did that have something to do with it?’).”
On top of this, Harry revealed that the Palace issued a “bare-faced lie” at William’s 2011 wedding by saying he was the best man. Harry explained, “Willy didn’t want me giving a best man’s speech” but that he was made to act the part so that William’s closest friends and actual best men, James Meade and Thomas Van Straubenzee, didn’t have their private lives dug into.
In fact, James and Thomas were the ones who gave speeches at William’s wedding, and Harry was simply in charge of introducing them.
I mean...it’s pretty wild of the Palace to lie about this and definitely indicates that Harry and William (or Harold and Willy, as we’ll henceforth be calling them) weren’t as close as we thought—even back in 2011.
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