@victoriaarbiter@brigantia__ Thank you, thank you very much! Enough to see people minimise William’s pain. So unfair. Just because he doesn’t play the victim nobody cant say he was less sad. Its terrible. What shitty uncle is Charles Spencer.
Charles Spencer waited twenty-nine years, three divorces, and a publishing contract before deciding that a fifteen-year-old boy’s composure on the worst day of his life was a reason to treat him as the secondary concern.
I am seething.
In Swan Song, Spencer writes that William “looked more self-possessed.” Tall. Handsome. Dignified. The image of his mother. And because the child did not collapse in public, because he held himself together while the world watched, his uncle decided Harry was the one who needed the fuss. William’s maturity, in other words, became the justification for ranking him second.
That is not grief talking. That is a man who has spent decades polishing a narrative in which one nephew is the wounded prince and the other is the inconveniently functional one.
Spencer’s own words give him away. He admits he “cared deeply” about what William was going through, then immediately explains why that care was deprioritized. The greater composure made him secondary.
For a relative who claims to care, how completely insensitive.
The uncle who delivered the funeral eulogy about blood family and duty decided, on the train to Althorp, that the boy who most resembled Diana was the one who could wait.
Twenty-nine years later he puts it in a book timed for the 30th anniversary market. Convenient. Financially convenient — it’s sickening.
Spencer now presenting William’s dignity as a reason to look away first is not brotherly concern. It is narrative management. Harry gets the “lack of obvious care” chapter. William gets the “he seemed fine, so I moved on” footnote.
That is not how you protect a sister’s sons. That is how you pick a favorite and call it memory.
William’s composure was not a luxury. It was the only armor a fifteen-year-old had left. Treating it as the reason he came second is one of the colder lines in a book already dripping with score-settling. Some of us still notice when a man waits almost three decades to tell the world that the boy who held it together was, therefore, less urgent.
That boy grew up. He is still holding it together. While the uncle is dining on the tragic death of his sister.
@jammierooroo@pelaez4_pelaez@Ninestiles I thought Harry was concerned about children being shown on social media. Why are they always so willing to show other people's children faces but hide their their own.
Easy for you to say. You weren’t the one publicly dragged through the mud by your own sibling, humiliated, and forced to watch your reputation shredded by lie after lie. And you certainly weren’t the one who had to witness your spouse being targeted with vile accusations and facing death threats fueled by the very lies your sibling shamelessly fed to the world.
And yet somehow, you still expect the next King to simply rise above it all and hand out forgiveness like it costs nothing. No. If reconciliation is truly what’s wanted, it starts with accountability. That means a real apology from the one who lit the match in the first place. And since the character assassination was done publicly, the apology should be just as loud, just as public, and just as uncomfortable.
Until that happens, spare us the sanctimonious lectures about how "forgiveness feels better than grudge bearing." Do everyone a favor and keep your self-righteous opinions to yourself.
They keep saying, “Brothers at War”.
But the war is one-sided, because Harry is the one
- writing books
- throwing jabs
- picking offence
- doing docuseries
- making up stories
- airing dirty laundry
- doing endless interviews
- leaking private information
Meanwhile, William ⬇️
People moaning about The Princess of Wales choosing to release a video. First it was she was "hiding" something now they're moaning she's sharing too much. How about let a woman share her cancer journey however tf she wants?
@BeccaBarry Let me get this straight...
He talks to the press about his fight with the press.
Also, I guess @itvnews has now become "grassroots" reporters???