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The thing about The Crown\u2019s final season is that we\u2019ve crept into territory covered by Prince Harry in Spare, a memoir which Peter Morgan claims he didn\u2019t read (although the other writers and supervisors do admit to reading). Why would you want a fictionalized account of Harry and William\u2019s relationship when Harry has written it out in his own voice? I guess Morgan\u2019s belief – and the belief of most royal biographers – is that we should never allow a royal\u2019s own words get in the way of the story they<\/em> want to tell. Now, Season 6 of The Crown is very Sussex-coded, from QEII telling Tony Blair that royalty is a binary choice, you\u2019re either in or you\u2019re out. Diana and Dodi\u2019s conversations about running off to California were also Sussex-coded. And now, with the final episodes, we\u2019re seeing seeds of how Harry and William\u2019s \u201cfeud\u201d began:<\/p>\n Peter Morgan may have brought the curtain down on The Crown decades before Prince William and Harry\u2019s real-life feud, but it has not stopped him from imagining the early signs of discontent between the brothers. The Crown\u2019s final episode, now streaming on Netflix, foreshadows the cracks in their relationship as the two royals wrestle with adulthood and their royal duties.<\/p>\n The princes, played by Ed McVey (William) and Luther Ford (Harry), have a frosty exchange after being told by Imelda Staunton\u2019s Queen Elizabeth II that their father Prince Charles (Dominic West) intends to marry Camilla Parker Bowles (Olivia Williams). Prince William is grudgingly accepting of the idea, recognizing that it is important for his father\u2019s happiness as he prepares to ascend to the throne. Prince Harry is less keen and says nothing as his brother offers the Queen their blessing.<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t believe you caved like that,\u201d Harry snipes. \u201cI didn\u2019t cave, I\u2019m just being a realist,\u201d William replies as they look on at the Queen informing Prince Charles that he is free to wed. \u201cSuch a f***ing company man,\u201d Harry remarks.<\/p>\n William and Harry are later imagined bickering over the dinner table on the eve of their father\u2019s wedding. Harry accuses his sibling of \u201cstabbing me in the back\u201d following an incident in which he was pictured wearing a Nazi uniform at a fancy dress party. \u201cLadies and gentlemen of the jury, how many faces does this man have?\u201d he asks.<\/p>\n In recent years, allies of the Duke of Sussex have accused Prince William of briefing against his younger brother in the press. This version of events was repeated recently by Omid Scobie, who is seen as close to Harry and Meghan, while promoting his book Endgame. \u201cHe\u2019s sharing private information about his brother that ended up on the front page of a newspaper not long later,\u201d Scobie said.<\/p>\n Back in The Crown\u2019s finale, the Queen offers William some wisdom about his brother \u2014 and makes an apparent reference to Harry\u2019s eventual exile. \u201cBe kind to him,\u201d she says. \u201cIn many ways, it\u2019s harder being number two than number one. The system protects number one. Number two tends to \u2026 need extra care and attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n [From Deadline]<\/p>\n One thing this will hopefully give viewers and casual royal-watchers is the sense that William and Harry\u2019s paths diverged long before Harry met Meghan. I mean, they would know that if they read Spare, but at least The Crown is showing it too, that they fought and disagreed and that there was always going to be a falling out at some point. Through Spare, we heard his perspective: that William was always jealous and competitive, and William never really looked out for him, then all of the Meghan stuff came much later. Perhaps this shows that QEII was mindful of the sibling dynamic and she wanted Harry to become \u201cMargaret\u201d to William\u2019s QEII. Or something.<\/p>\n Photos courtesy of Netflix.<\/small><\/p>\n\n
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