Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, 38, claims he was not the best man, despite the fact that he stood up alongside his brother the Prince of Wales at his wedding in 2011.
Writing in his autobiography ‘Spare’, Harry sensationally claimed: “Willy didn’t want me giving a best man’s speech” and said he was forced to go along with the “bare-faced lie” that he was the best man.
James Meade and Thomas Van Straubenzee, according to Harry, are acquaintances of William who allegedly gave the customary speech at the wedding celebration.
William allegedly received well-wishers hours before his wedding while “tipsy on the remnants of last night’s rum,” according to Harry.
Despite their animosity toward one another, William, 40, served as Harry’s best man at his wedding to Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, in 2018.
Harry has also branded William his “arch-nemesis”, saying there has “always been” a sense of “competition” between himself and the Prince of Wales and he thinks they have naturally fallen into the dynamic of the heir and the spare, an old saying referring to the fact the eldest child will inherit titles and power and a second sibling is purely there in case anything happens to the first-born.
In a preview clip for Harry’s upcoming interview on ‘Good Morning America’, Michael Strahan asked: “There’s a quote in the book where you refer to your brother as your ‘beloved brother and arch-nemesis.’ Strong words. What did you mean by that?”
Harry replied: “There has always been this competition between us, weirdly. I think it really plays into or always played by the ‘heir/spare.'”
