Prince Harry and Prince William are scheduled to stand “shoulder to shoulder” at a memorial commissioned by their mother, Princess Diana, this summer, despite tension between the brothers caused by the scandal of the royal race, it was revealed on Friday.
“I can exclusively reveal that William is still committed, like Harry, to meeting on July 1 to unveil the statue of Princess Diana in Kensington Gardens,” said Russell Myers, an expert on the royal family. British, UK morning show “Loraine” on Friday.
“This could be a monumental time for the brothers,” Myers said, adding that the brothers have barely spoken in months, according to Sun.
The revelation came a day after Prince William contradicted the claims of Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, that Markle suffered racism behind the palace walls.
Asked about the claim, which included that a member of the royal family had concerns about how “dark” the couple’s baby would be, William replied Wednesday that “we are hardly a racist family.”
In an interview with Oprah Winfrey Sunday, Prince Harry said he faced racist comments after he started dating Markle and that his father, Prince Charles, stopped receiving his calls. He also made it clear that he and Prince William are going “different ways.”
But despite the royal family’s spit, Prince Harry has vowed to return to the UK from California this summer for the planned inauguration of a memorial statue he helped commission his mother.
The statue was commissioned by Prince Harry and Prince William in 2017 in honor of the twentieth anniversary of Princess Diana’s death. It will be announced what would have been his 60th birthday.
Princess Diana died with her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, on August 31, 1997, when her car crashed in Paris, France.