Prince Harry and Prince William plan to stand shoulder to shoulder this summer at a memorial they commissioned for their mother, Princess Diana – despite the tension between the brothers sparked by the royal race scandal, it was revealed on Friday.
“I can exclusively reveal that William is still determined, as is Harry, to get together on July 1 for the unveiling of the statue of Princess Diana in Kensington Gardens,” said Russell Myers, an expert on the British royal. family, in the morning in the UK. show “Loraine” Friday.
“This could be a monumental period for the brothers,” Myers said, adding that the siblings have barely spoken for months, according to the Sun.
The revelation came a day after Prince William contradicted claims made by Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, that Markle was suffering from racism behind the palace walls.
Asked about the allegation – which implied that a member of the royal family was concerned about how “dark” the couple’s baby would be – William replied on Wednesday that “we are not a racist family.”
In a bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey on Sunday, Prince Harry said he got racist comments after he started dating Markle and that his father, Prince Charles, stopped taking his calls. He also made it clear that he and Prince William are walking “different paths”.
But despite the royal family’s feud, Prince Harry has vowed to return to the UK from California this summer for the planned unveiling of a memorial statue he helped commission for his mother.
The statue was commissioned in 2017 by Prince Harry and Prince William in honor of the 20th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death. It will be unveiled on what would have been her 60th birthday.
Princess Diana died with her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, on August 31, 1997, when their car crashed in Paris, France.