A rift that could end when Diana statue is unveiled

THE SUSSEXES delivered their damaging allegations of racism against the Royal family four nights ago, but the Duke of Cambridge’s admission that he has yet to speak to his brother about the interview appears to indicate a divide.

Harry stopped short of attacking his older brother in the twohour sit-down with Oprah Winfrey. “The relationship is space at the moment,” he said.

“And time heals all things, hopefully.”

He added: “I love William to bits, he’s my brother, we’ve been through hell together, we have a shared experience, but we were on different paths.”

According to the Finding Freedom biography of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, the brothers’ rift stretched back to before the wedding when Harry was angered by what he perceived as his brother’s “snobbish” attitude to Meghan, after William questioned whether he should rush into things.

Following the Queen’s Sandringham summit in January, William and Harry reportedly stopped speaking for two months.

When they were younger, William and Harry’s bond appeared unbreakable, and they were united in their experience of a royal childhood and the trauma of losing their mother.

They were each other’s best man on their wedding days, and Harry said when he was 21: “I mean, ever since our mother died, obviously we were close, but he is the one person on this earth who I can actually really ... we can talk about anything.”

On July 1 this year, William and Harry are due to come together to unveil a statue they commissioned of their mother on what would have been her 60th birthday. The announcement last summer raised hopes the project would bring the brothers closer together. But it is unclear if the Oprah interview has affected that.