Prince Harry has claimed that his brother Prince William physically attacked him, according to the Guardian, which says it has seen a copy of the duke’s upcoming memoir, Spare.
The newspaper reported that the book sets out an argument between the pair over Prince Harry’s wife Meghan.
“He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor,” the Guardian quotes Prince Harry as writing.
BBC News has not seen a copy of Spare.
The memoir will not be published until next Tuesday, but the Guardian said it obtained a copy amid what it called “stringent pre-launch security”.
Buckingham Palace has yet to respond to a request for comment.
According to the Guardian, the book says the row was sparked by comments Prince William made to Prince Harry at his London home in 2019.
Prince Harry, the paper says, writes that his brother was critical of his marriage to Meghan Markle – and that Prince William described her as “difficult”, “rude” and “abrasive”.
The Duke of Sussex reportedly writes that his brother was “parrot[ing] the press narrative” as the confrontation escalated.
Prince Harry is said to describe what happened next, including an alleged physical altercation.
“He set down [a glass of] water, called me another name, then came at me. It all happened so fast. So very fast.
“He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor.
“I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out.”
Martin Pengelly, a journalist for the Guardian’s US website who wrote its story, said he did not approach Prince William’s communication team.
The reporter said that his article is “a report on Harry’s book, which he’s written, it’s Harry’s account”.
Mr Pengelly told BBC Radio 5 Live: “We carefully, obviously in reporting it, didn’t call it a fight because Harry says he didn’t fight back.”
Prince Harry writes that his brother urged him to hit back and he refused to do so, according to the Guardian, but Prince William later looked “regretful, and apologised”.
Photographs suggest Prince Harry regularly wore a dark necklace at events such as the Invictus Games, and on foreign tours with Meghan, as recently as September 2019.
While publishers at Penguin Random House are yet to confirm whether the leaked excerpts from the book are genuine, Prince Harry has recently spoken of his troubled relationship with his brother.
In the couple’s Harry and Meghan Netflix documentary, Prince Harry describes a meeting he attended with his brother, and father, the now King.
Prince Harry described the conference in early 2020, which was also attended by the late Queen, as “terrifying”.
“It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me and my father say things that just simply weren’t true, and my grandmother quietly sit there and sort of take it all in,” he said.
The Guardian says Prince Harry details a meeting with Charles, then Prince of Wales, and Prince William after the funeral of his grandfather, Prince Phillip, in April 2021.
According to the paper, Prince Harry writes his father stood between him and Prince William, and said “please, boys, don’t make my final years a misery”.
In a trailer for a sit-down interview, which will be broadcast on 8 January ahead of the book release, the prince said: “I would like to get my father back, I would like to have my brother back”.
However, Prince Harry told ITV’s Tom Bradby “they’ve shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile,” although it was not clear who he was referring to.
Buckingham Palace declined to comment on this.
Spare, ghostwritten by memoirist JR Moehringer and part of a multi-million dollar book deal, was previously believed to be subject to the utmost secrecy with few details known about its content.
“For Harry, this is his story at last,” Penguin Random House said in a publicity statement back in October.
“With its raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is a landmark publication full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.”
Reactions have continued to trail the demise of the United Kingdom’s longest-serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth 11.
William Shakespeare once said “When beggars die, there are no comets seen, but heavens themselves blaze the death of princes”
Queen Elizabeth the second of Great Britain was indeed more than a prince. She was a monarch of repute.
Her demise on September 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne marked the end of an era for the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.
Quite interestingly, rainbows appeared at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace after Queen Elizabeth’s demise.
Commenting on the legacy of the British monarch, the Chairman, All Progressives Congress United Kingdom, Mr Bayo Amusat-Gbenla described Queen Elizabeth as a monarch, who was supportive of African countries.
“The Queen has been very supportive; the entire world will definitely feel the impact, Nigeria inclusive. We just hope that the son will be able to pick the reign where Queen stopped”.
Mr Gbenla-Amusat said the Queen was good to Commonwealth countries, especially Nigeria
Similarly, some Nigerian residents in the United Kingdom expressed their feelings about the death of the queen.
Mrs Olayemi Jimon said, “it is going to have an impact on the economy, then Nigerians in the UK will also be affected but I don’t think the death of Queen will affect any UK-Nigerian national”.
Another diasporan, Mr Abayomi Ogunnika opined “I felt through the Queen the UK parliament had welcomed foreigners including me as a Nigerian to this country “.
Mrs Olayinka Amusa on her part said “The death of Queen will not really have any negative impact on Nigerians living in the UK in the sense that she is just a monarch.”
While another Nigerian resident in the UK, Mr Akinlolu Kareem, said “As far back as maybe a couple of years ago, the Queen had already delegated a lot of powers to her son'”
Speaking, a political commentator, Dr Sunday Olawale described Queen Elizabeth as an epitome of beauty and intellect, a leader with love and passion for her country.
“Bearing in mind the great influence that the late Queen had because when we are talking about the colonial power, she over saw a lot of phases of development”.
Dr Olawale enjoined Nigeria political leaders to emulate the selflessness of Queen Elizabeth 11 and how she developed her country.
Meanwhile, all attention is now on the Queen’s successor, King Charles III as he begins his reign.
Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II’s husband, has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace has announced.
Buckingham Palace said: “It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
“His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle.”
Boris Johnson said he “inspired the lives of countless young people”.
The prince married Princess Elizabeth in 1947, five years before she became Queen, and was the longest-serving royal consort in British history.
He underwent a procedure for a pre-existing heart condition at another London hospital – St Bartholomew’s.
Prince Philip and the Queen had four children, eight grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Their first son, the Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, was born in 1948, followed by his sister, the Princess Royal, Princess Anne, in 1950, the Duke of York, Prince Andrew, in 1960 and the Earl of Wessex, Prince Edward, in 1964.
Prince Philip was born on the Greek island of Corfu on 10 June 1921.
His father was Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, a younger son of King George I of the Hellenes.
His mother, Princess Alice, was a daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten and a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
