Was Prince William's statement digs at Prince Harry?

[MrsNobodyMM]

I really loved Prince William's statement and tribute to the Queen. However it did highlight the difference in his relationships with close family members, and his life going forwards compared to Harry. A friend said to me they thought it seemed like a series of digs at Harry and reading again I'm wondering if anyone would agree?

(I'm paraphrasing slightly but these are the comments that highlight Harry's new life.)

^"The world lost an extraordinary leader who's commitment to the country... was absolute."

"My wife has had twenty years of her guidance."

"My three children have got to spend holidays with her and make memories that will last their whole lives."

"I thank her... for providing an example of service and dignity in public life."

"I will honour her memory.. by supporting my father The King in every way I can."^

This was the majority of his statement and it would be impossible for Harry and Meghan to share similar sentiments now. Does anyone think this was intentional or just the reality of their situation?

Just reality, he is saying what he appreciates and has appreciated about her living to such a ripe age. And it was good for his wife, who will one day be Queen Consort (unlike Meghan, who will not) to have that guidance.

Should he not mention things he has valued just because his brother didn't value them (or if he did, he didn't put his actions in line with his values?).

sounds like he just talked about how he felt about the queen, not everything is about harry.

how many more threads lol

Why should he have to minimise what has happened in his life because his brother’s has not mirrored it? He’s just thanking her for the impact she has had on the lives of him and his family.

None of those words are a dig at Harry, stop buying into the media circus crap about Harry and Meghan! William's statement is heartfelt, both personal, from a grandson mourning his grandmother, and professional, from a prince of wales mourning the late monarch. It will have been prepared by him in collaboration with a press secretary. They have more important things to consider, and are far too busy, than to be so childish as to incorporate digs at someone else.

I wish that when the four of them walked along that Kate put her arm through Meghan's and was friendly towards her and that Will put his arm around Harry. Those two things would end all this speculation about bad feeling.

Why should they? Works both ways.

None of that has anything whatsoever to do with Harry! Why would it? Stop twisting it and reading into it things which just aren't there.

Everything he said was what I would have expected him to say, regardless of what Harry was doing.

It was a well worded statement that sounded heartfelt. I can’t see anything in it that sounds like a dig at Harry.

I’ve seen three threads so far on this and literally no one agrees with these OPs. Surely the DM has better things to focus on.

No, I don't think it's a dig at all.

Some of those statements would always have been impossible for Harry and Meghan to share even if they'd stayed in the UK simply because their children are too young for lifelong memories, and Meghan hasn't known Harry for 20 years.

And what was he meant to do, not mention her public service? Should he only have talked about her as a grandmother, so that Harry could say exactly the same thing?

Everything William said was true. Harry and Meghan chose their path. They (she) wanted to leave the RF.
The rest, as they say, is history

Why should they? Don't be ridiculous.

I wouldn't do that to my own sibling in public and we aren't estranged at all.

It sounds like it was more of a 'look what wonderful guidance my family has had. We have been prepared well for our duties' statement.

You need to be a huge elastic band to make such a ridiculous stretch.

These threads are really tiresome. Not everything is about Harry and Meghan.

Not everything is about Harry much as he'd like it to be

I think Prince William has good reason to be pissed off with how Harry’s choices will affect him and the scale of work he will have to undertake due to the very slimmed down monarchy that now exists so yes maybe he unconsciously has expressed that along the way.

However I don’t think a life of dutiful service in a gilded cage where you are nothing of yourself and everything the world projects on to you is something everyone should aspire to. I think William is utterly trapped by that gilded cage now. I personally think their life is no life for their children either and that is what most people get the chance to focus on, making life better for the generation that follows them. Not to speak I’ll of the dead because there is so much to admire about her, but I don’t think the queen had much opportunity to be a good mother with all of the travelling and boarding school in early childhood.

Is that you Meghan? Not everything is about Harry. The digs you see are a figment of your own messed up imagination.

Also OP, why have you set up two threads on exactly this in the same topic? You seem obsessed!

FFS 🤦‍♀️ - (I'm in full spamming mode now)

Honestly when it comes to H&M people see and hear whatever they want.
There was nothing in PW speech that could be construed as a dig towards PH.

Or rather much as some people reading would like it to be

Gosh I teared up when reading Harry’s statement. So touching and emotional. He did love his granny

Another seriously!