Now he drags William into row over Press leaks

PRINCE William argued with his father and stepmother after accusing them of ‘planting’ stories in the media about himself and his family, Harry claims.

The prince says he took a call in April 201 from his brother ‘seething’ in rage.

‘I gathered that Pa and Camilla’s people had planted a story or stories about him and Kate and the kids, and he wasn’t going to take it any more,’ Harry writes in his memoir, Spare.

‘Give Pa and Camilla an inch, [William] said, and they take a mile. They’ve done this to me for the last time,’ Harry claims.

‘I got it. They’d done the same to me and Meg as well.’

Harry goes on to blame a ‘gung-ho’ woman in his father’s press office for leaking that he had gone on a hunting trip to Germany in 2017 that ‘made me out to be some fat-bottomed seventeenth-century baron who craved blood in trophies’. In fact – he says – he had worked with German farmers to ‘cull wild boar’ and save crops.

Harry describes a showdown that he and William had with their father over this unnamed woman. Charles was said to have angrily denied that his staff would ever leak stories deliberately.

Like many of Harry’s claims, there is much that can be disputed. For example, Charles’ PR team was headed by a man in both 201 and 2017. And Harry’s hunting trip leaked only because Germany’s biggest newspaper was tipped off that Harry had arrived on a private jet. It managed to track down which estate they were on because Harry had attended the wedding of the landowner – nicknamed The Boar Terminator.

Harry said he was grateful, however, that William rang to talk about his problems given the state of their relationship in 201 and took the opportunity to highlight his and Meghan’s concerns with the institution. He said his brother snapped back: ‘I’ve got different issues with you two!’