During his seven years serving King Charles III, former royal butler Grant Harrold built a close relationship with Princes William and Harry, describing them as playful and mischievous boys.

Looking back now, however, he admits he is saddened by their very public falling out.

Harrold says he has even felt compelled to address Harry’s most explosive claims — including allegations of violence between the brothers.

Harry’s Allegations in Spare

In his memoir Spare, Prince Harry wrote candidly about a long-running rivalry, calling William both his “beloved brother and arch-nemesis.”

“There’s always been this competition between us, weirdly. I think it really plays into the heir/spare dynamic,” he said, also accusing William of disliking Meghan Markle.

Perhaps the most shocking claim was that William once physically attacked him at Nottingham Cottage.

“He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and… knocked me to the floor,” Harry wrote. “I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out.”

Harrold’s Refutation

Harrold, who worked at Highgrove for nearly a decade, strongly disputes Harry’s version of events.

“I never witnessed them have a fight,” he told Tyla, adding that while William occasionally scolded Harry as an older brother, he never saw violence between them.

“That isn’t to say William didn’t give Harry a telling off sometimes as children – he was the big brother,” he explained. “You see the same dynamic nowadays between Prince George and Prince Louis.”