The couples apparently clashed over an Easter issue in 2018
Prince William and Kate, Princess of Wales, arrive to attend the annual Commonwealth Day service.(Image: Frank Augstein/AP/REX/Shutterstock)
Prince Harry once lifted the lid on an Easter fall-out with Prince William and Kate Middleton.
In his explosive memoir Spare, the Duke of Sussex revealed how the members of the Royal Family appeared to clash in 2018.
He recalled how he and wife Meghan Markle had been invited by William and Kate for tea in Nottingham Cottage.
This was to establish why Kate and Meghan had ‘got off on the wrong foot’.
Harry wrote: “For 10 minutes we did the classic small talk. How are the kids? How was your honeymoon?
“Meg then acknowledged the tension among the four of us and ventured that it might go back to those early days when she’d first joined the family – a misunderstanding that had almost passed without notice.
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“Kate thought Meg had wanted her fashion contacts. But Meg had her own.”
Harry continued: “They’d got off on the wrong foot perhaps?
“And then, Meg added, everything got magnified by the wedding, and those infernal bridesmaids’ dresses.”
But it transpired that there was another issue bothering Prince William and Princess Kate, Mirror reports.
According to Harry, a lack of Easter gifts that year had struck a sour note with the couple.
He said: “But it turned out there were other things… about which we’d been unaware.
“Willy and Kate were apparently upset that we hadn’t given them Easter presents.
“Easter presents? Was that a thing? Willy and I had never exchanged Easter presents.
“Pa always made a big deal about Easter, sure, but that was Pa.
“Still, if Willy and Kate were upset, we apologised.
“For our part, we chipped in that we weren’t too pleased when Willy and Kate switched place cards and changed seats at our wedding.
“We’d followed the American tradition, placing couples next to each other, but Willy and Kate didn’t like that tradition, so their table was the only one where spouses were apart.”