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Prince William publicly mentions Prince Harry for the first time in recent memory while talking about his childhood.

Prince William publicly mentions Prince Harry for the first time in recent memory while talking about his childhood.

Despite its continued tensions, Prince William recalled a pivotal memory he shared with his brother, Prince Harry, from their childhood recently in a new documentary about homelessness.

“My mother took me to The Passage; she took Harry and I there. I must have been 11 at the time, maybe 10. I’d never been to anything like it before, and I was a little anxious about what to expect.”, the Prince of Wales said in a preview clip of his new ITV documentary called “Prince William: We Can End Homelessness.”

A photo from the documentary showed the two boys dressed casually at the homeless charity, smiling at the camera as Harry sits on his mother Princess Diana’s lap.

William said Princess Diana made everyone present “feel relaxed and laughed and joked with everyone” in her usual way when they arrived at the center.

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William and Harry in 2018

Despite the current tensions, Prince William recalled a pivotal memory he shared with his brother, Prince Harry, recently in a new documentary about homelessness. (Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

“I remember at that moment thinking, ‘Well, whoever doesn’t have a house, everyone is going to be very sad,’ but it was incredible how happy the atmosphere was,” he added in the clip.

Despite an official 40th birthday wish from Kensington Palace’s X account, William and Harry have had a strained relationship since the Duke of Sussex’s marriage to Meghan Markle, and William’s comments in the documentary are believed to be the first public mention of his brother in years. .

Tension became even greater after Harry and Meghan left England in 2020 to move to California.

He and Meghan met with Oprah Winfrey in 2021 from California to tell all and they leveled off. accusations of racism to an unnamed member of the royal family and attacked the institution in the Netflix documentary series “Harry & Meghan” in 2022.

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Last year he published the memoir “Spare”, in which, among other accusations, he accused William of physically attack him in an argument about Meghan at his London home in 2019, after he and Meghan married.

More recently, William and Harry also they seemed to avoid each other at the funeral of his mother’s brother-in-law, Lord Robert Fellowes, in August.

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Princess Diana and William at a homeless charity in 1995

Prince William with his mother, Princess Diana, at the Passage homeless charity in 1993. (Passage/Brochure via Reuters)

The brothers “kept their distance” at the memorial, the Sun reported.

In June, Harry turned down an invitation to the wedding of Hugh Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster in northern England, because William was attending, a royal expert told Fox News Digital at the time.

William and Harry with Princess Diana in 1995

Princes William and Harry with Princess Diana in 1995. (Anwar Hussein/Getty Images)

“Even if Harry showed up and snuck into the back row, there would be enough press coverage and general hysteria over the two brothers being in the same room to overshadow the wedding entirely,” explained Christopher Andersen, author of ” The King.”

William, Harry, Kate and Meghan together after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 2022

Prince Harry and Prince William are believed to have spoken for the last time after the death of their grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, in 2022. (Kirsty O’Connor – WPA Group/Getty Images)

Harry flew back to London for a brief visit to his father in February after King Charles’ cancer diagnosis, but did not meet William at the time.

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The two brothers are believed to have last spoken in 2022, after the death of Queen Elizabeth.

Fox News’ Stephanie Giang-Paunon contributed to this report.

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