Prince Harry can’t be happy that his own BROTHER is poaching his pals… it proves where loyalties really lie, expert says
PRINCE Harry may be feeling “jealous” of Prince William after his brother poached his pals, a royal expert has claimed.
The Prince of Wales has taken on Harry and Meghan’s “dear friend” Jose Andres, 55, as one of the newest members of William’s Earthshot Prize Council.
The chef and humanitarian has been pals with Meghan and Harry for the past four-and-a-half years receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars of grants from Archewell for his flagship project World Central Kitchen (WCK).
But he is now working with William and leading his £50million global eco-project after being poached from the Sussexes.
The two warring brothers are still embroiled in a bitter years-long feud which shows no signs of ending.
And royal expert Phil Dampier believes that Prince Harry may well be “jealous” after William’s latest move.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun he said: “I’m sure that Harry is probably a little bit jealous that it looks like William’s poached one of his top people.
“I think there will be a little bit of resentment.
“As I say, we don’t know whether they’ve had a falling out, it could well be that Jose has managed to stay friends with with both parties, he’s a great guy doing great work.
“But I wouldn’t be surprised if Harry’s a bit jealous as some other people have already been put in a difficult position between the two.”
Growing up, Wills and Harry shared many of the same friends who were part of their close, tight-knit circle.
But they’ve have limited contact with each other since Megxit, when Harry and wife Meghan quit royal duties for a new life in the States.
The royal brothers have moved in different circles for some time now as relations show no sign of defrosting.
Dampier suggested that people, including celebrities, are slowly edging more towards William and Kate despite being close to Harry in the past.
And he claims that Jose’s actions could be the latest example of this trend.
The royal expert said: “We don’t know whether this means that Jose has fallen out with Harry and Meghan, it’s possible.
“In the normal scheme of things it would be a good thing if he was still friends with both.
“But I think it kind of fits a pattern that we’re starting to see some people who are starting to sort of edge away from from Harry and Meghan, and get back more in contact with with William and Kate, and indeed the King.
“I mean other people who come to mind are the Beckham’s who went to Harry and Meghan’s wedding, but they apparently seem to have fallen out with them.
“We don’t seem to see so much of people like the Clooneys’ and Elton John with Harry and Meghan anymore.
“So it does make you wonder whether or not Jose is one of the latest sort of celebrities who has realised that possibly Harry and Meghan’s star has waned a bit, and they’re better off working with the conventional royals.”
The Sussexes representatives have been contacted for comment.
As Harry’s circle gets smaller, it comes after news that Harry is increasingly dissatisfied with life in California.
Pals claim he feels he has lost his way and dislikes being overshadowed by Meghan in public.
And in shock claims, he is said to be seeking guidance on a return to Britain — and to the Royal Family.
But reconnecting will be easier said then done with relationships with William and Charles especially strained.
FROSTY RELATIONSHIPS
Last week, William and Harry “kept their distance” at their uncle’s funeral as they saw each other for the first time since King Charles’ coronation.
The estranged brothers “discreetly” attended the service on Wednesday for Lord Robert Fellowes, who was their mother Diana’s brother-in-law, but sat separately.
The feuding brothers are understood not to have spoken since the Queen’s funeral two years ago, when they “barely exchanged a word”, Harry wrote in Spare.
And, Harry visited the UK to mark the 10th anniversary of his Invictus Games in May this year – but declined to meet up with either King Charles or his older brother.
Their relationship took another sour turn after the duke lobbed vile allegations against the Prince of Wales in his memoir Spare.
Tensions may be reignited as a paperback version of the explosive book is set to hit shelves in October.
Royal experts claimed its release could “dredge everything up again” and the “timing couldn’t be worse”.
A timeline of Prince Harry and William's 'feud': Brothers 'at war'
In 2018, the Sun told how “simmering tension” began when William questioned the speed of Harry and Meghan’s engagement.
The first hints of friction reportedly came after William was introduced to Meghan when she was staying at Kensington Palace.
Once she’d returned home to Canada, William and Harry sat down for a brother-to-brother chat.
He knew Harry was already head-over-heels for her but it has been claimed he advised him to take it slowly.
The younger prince reportedly didn’t take too kindly to the advice, with one royal source saying he “went mental”.
Then in June 2019 Harry and Meghan officially split off from the charity they shared with William and Kate.
The Royal Foundation will be divided between the Sussexes and Cambridges as the couples focus on their own separate charitable endeavours.
Prince William and Prince Harry first established the Royal Foundation in 2009 before Kate joined two years later shortly after their engagement was announced.
The trio would often appear together at events and the Foundation had huge successes with projects like the Invictus Games for injured veterans and the mental health Heads Together campaign.
The Royal Foundation said the decision was made following the conclusion of a review into its structure – but added both couples will continue to work together in the future.
Harry and Meg were living in close proximity to Kate and Wills within the Kensington Palace estate, but they switched to Frogmore Cottage in Windsor before baby Archie was born.
The move further increased rumours of a fallout.
Harry, 39, also hinted in his ITV documentary “Harry and Meghan, An African Journey” that he and his brother had grown apart.
It came after Prince Philip called Meghan the “D.O.W” after the Duchess of Windsor — the American divorcee who led Edward VIII to abdicate.
And he warned the late Queen to be “cautious” of Harry’s then bride-to-be, a royal author claims.
Ingrid Seward revealed in new book My Mother And I that Prince Philip felt it was “uncanny…how much Meghan reminded him of the Duchess of Windsor“.
In 2021, Harry and Meghan give their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey where Harry accused his dad of cutting him off financially.
Harry then jetted back to UK to join William in unveiling a statue to their mother Princess Diana in the grounds of Kensington Palace.
But sources claimed William didn’t want to attend the memorial amid their ongoing rift.
In 2022, just before their grandmother the Queen died, sources claimed Kate acts as a “peacemaker” between the brothers.
Last year Harry claimed his brother “knocked him to the floor” during an argument about Meghan.
In his book Spare, Harry said William branded Meghan “rude” and “difficult” during a row.
Harry alleged William “grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and … knocked me to the floor”.
He said he was left with a visible injury to his back following the argument in 2019 at Nottingham Cottage on the grounds of Kensington Palace, where he was living at the time.
In January this year, Harry flew in to be with Charles after the monarch’s shock cancer diagnosis.
Harry flew back to the US the following day – without seeing Wills.
Spare was originally published in 2023 and launched vile attacks on the Royal Family.
Harry cruelly alleged Prince William knocked him to the floor and ripped his necklace after heated words about Meghan.
And, during interviews to garner more publicity, the duke unleashed a litany of more digs at his now estranged family.
The bitter feud was ignited with full force when the Sussexes told Oprah, in their 2021 sit down interview, that certain members of the Royal Family had speculated about Prince Archie’s skin colour.
It was later claimed the royals were Princess Kate and King Charles, after Harry and Meghan’s former pal Omid Scobie published his hatchet-job book Endgame.
Prince William and Harry’s bond then worsened after the Sussexes made a number of accusations against the Royal Family in their 2022 Netflix docuseries.