The ice is thawing between the quarrelsome royal brothers, Prince William and Prince Harry – thanks to the family’s chief mediator, Kate Middleton.
The Duchess of Cambridge, the wife of William – whom he called the ‘family peacemaker’ – was the first to enter the isolated Harry’s conversation after Saturday’s peaceful funeral for his grandfather Prince Philip, reports the Sunday Times of London.
She was launching an animated conversation with her brother-in-law as the royals emerged in the bright spring sunshine.
The prince seems to visibly relax as she speaks – and then William joins them and makes them tete-a-tete a trio.
While most of the royals hurled the cars that were waiting for them outside the chapel and walked back to Windsor Castle together, Kate discreetly sank backwards and let William and Harry walk side by side and talk kindly along the road.
Royal assistants were reportedly “on eggshells” when they planned the funeral around the brothers’ strained relationship.
An angry William was reportedly set in motion in the wake of his brother’s riotous Oprah Winfrey interview last month, when Harry and his wife Meghan Markle raised charges of racism against unnamed family members, saying his brother ‘ trapped ‘feel by his royal duties.
The brothers were separated from each other by their cousin Peter Phillips when they marched in the procession behind their grandfather’s coffin, and sat far apart during the funeral service.
While Markle, pregnant with the couple’s second child, could not travel to Britain for the ceremonies, Harry could possibly stay in his homeland for a few more days, the Times reported on Wednesday on the 95th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II with to celebrate the family.