{"id":99201,"date":"2023-09-25T05:47:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T05:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/?p=99201"},"modified":"2023-09-25T05:47:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T05:47:38","slug":"how-kate-middleton-is-healing-prince-williams-pain-at-the-loss-of-his-wingman-harry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/celebrities\/how-kate-middleton-is-healing-prince-williams-pain-at-the-loss-of-his-wingman-harry\/","title":{"rendered":"How Kate Middleton is healing Prince William\u2019s pain at the \u2018loss of his wingman Harry\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hot on the heels of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex at the Invictus Games in Germany, it was the Prince of and Princess of Wales\u2019 turn to shine. <\/p>\n

While Kate stepped out for important engagements in the UK, William jetted across \u2018the pond\u2019 for the Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit in New York, armed with his ambitious goal to save the planet via the ten-year project.<\/p>\n

But there was heartache behind William\u2019s heroism, arriving on Prince Harry\u2019s adopted US \u2018home turf\u2019 amid no sign of a reconciliation between the two brothers. <\/p>\n

Royal expert Duncan Larcombe tells OK!<\/b> that Harry will have been very much in William\u2019s thoughts \u201cduring quieter moments\u201d on his Big Apple trip. <\/p>\n

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\u201cThere are always going to be certain things that will remind William of his younger brother and that will be upsetting for him \u2013 I don\u2019t doubt that for a second. I\u2019d love to know how much of the Invictus Games William saw and whether or not he even dared watch the Netflix documentary about it. Maybe it was just too painful for him. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s such a shame. Things could have been so different if the boys were on speaking terms. They could have lent some clout to each other\u2019s projects. These opportunities are lost.\u201d <\/p>\n

Despite the hurt behind the scenes, Duncan says William and Kate are determined to put all the negativity firmly in the past. \u201cI think William\u2019s way of dealing with it is to focus on the job in hand, and that\u2019s how he\u2019s coped. It\u2019s the same with Kate. They\u2019re rolling their sleeves up and getting on with it and William\u2019s trip to New York is no exception to that.\u201d <\/p>\n

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The rift between the brothers first came to light when Harry confirmed that they were already on \u201cdifferent paths\u201d back in 2019. Kate\u2019s reported attempts to heal the broken bond have failed, much to her disappointment. Former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond tells us, \u201cWhen you come from a happy, united family \u2013 as Catherine does \u2013 it\u2019s incredibly hard to understand how people can become estranged. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think she believed the rift could be fixed and, after Prince Philip\u2019s funeral, we saw her talking with Harry and obviously encouraging William to do the same. But we now know that it didn\u2019t work. In fact, William and Harry had a blazing row right after the funeral. There comes a point when you just have to accept that happy families are not a game that everyone can play. <\/p>\n

\u201cCatherine has been hurt and insulted by things that Harry and Meghan have said, but she and William are a very strong team, and I suspect that, together, they\u2019ve come to the conclusion that the rift with Harry cannot be fixed in the foreseeable future. They\u2019ve closed their minds to that possibility and decided to get on with their lives.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Jennie points out that \u201clike his father, William can be quite hot headed, but Catherine is adept at calming him down\u201d but says \u201cbefore he set off for New York, I think she would have simply given him a farewell kiss and wished him good luck because William is hugely invested in this project and is confident about what he\u2019s doing.\u201d <\/p>\n

Mutual support is one of the keys to their strong relationship. \u201cThere are so few people that members of the royal family can turn to for advice, comfort or just to let off steam with,\u201d Jennie says. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure that William and Catherine are a great support to one another and that Catherine is the most incredible source of encouragement for William. The marriage is founded on an enduring friendship and I\u2019m sure William has called on the strength of that friendship to help him come to terms with the loss of his wingman, his brother.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Interestingly, Jennie believes that the couple\u2019s split – or \u2018divorce\u2019 as she refers to it – in 2007 has helped them cope with the ructions caused by Harry. \u201cI think one of the best things they did was essentially to have a \u2018divorce\u2019 before they got married. <\/p>\n

The short time they spent apart made them see what life would be like without one another. I think it laid the foundation for what appears to be an extremely happy and secure marriage. Being dropped must have hit Catherine\u2019s self confidence at the time but she has since grown as a woman, as a wife, a mother and as a future queen who would have been watching her husband perform on the world\u2019s stage last week with enormous pride.\u201d <\/p>\n

William\u2019s excitement about visiting America – his second trip in less than a year – was evident from a comment posted on the couple\u2019s social media: \u201cIt\u2019s so good to be back in the United States. No one does optimism and ingenuity like the American people…\u201d And it came just days after he was crowned the most popular public figure in the US, beating the likes of Ukraine\u2019s President Zelensky, President Biden and his own father, King Charles. <\/p>\n

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Sure enough he was met by huge crowds wherever he went. His scheduled engagements included checking out an enormous pile of oyster shells at the Billion Oyster Project on Grosvenor Island, which aims to restore oyster reefs to New York Harbour, meeting the UN Secretary General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres and hanging out with FDNY firefighters near Ground Zero. And yet he still managed to squeeze in a jog through Central Park, joining \u201cthe hordes of New Yorkers doing their morning routine\u201d seemingly unnoticed. <\/p>\n

Appearing onstage at the Summit to reveal this year\u2019s fifteen Earthshot Prize finalists later that day, he told previous winner Vaitea Cowantold: \u201cIt was wonderful waking up in New York on a sunny morning, rather than the rain we had yesterday. It was beautiful getting some fresh air this morning.\u201d <\/p>\n

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William, who launched Earthshot in 2020, is due to travel to Singapore in November where he\u2019ll announce the five winners for the third annual awards. But having told wellwishers that he\u2019s keen to return to New York with Kate and the children in the near future, he added, \u201cI think 2014 was the last time I was here in New York, I\u2019ve been trying to come back but with Covid and my grandmother passing away last year has meant I\u2019ve not been able to come.\u201d <\/p>\n

One very eager fan who was waiting in the crowds to meet the prince gifted him three \u2018I [heart] New York\u2019 t-shirts for the children and two mini New York license plates that read \u201cWilliam\u201d and \u201cCatherine\u201d. <\/p>\n

Commenting on the warm reception he received, Jennie notes, \u201cAmericans love our royal family, and William is becoming the shining star of the monarchy, particularly with Catherine at his side. <\/p>\n

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"He has his mother\u2019s easy charm, as well as her good looks and he\u2019s both confident and fully immersed in the destiny he once viewed with some dread. He looks as if he is enjoying his role, and as the Earthshot Prize shows, he\u2019s determined to use his platform to engineer real change.\u201d <\/p>\n

Leading royal author Katie Nicholl agrees and tells OK!<\/b> \u201cIt must have been a very happy coincidence\u201d that his visit coincided with him being voted the most popular influential global figure in America. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think that must have been a real boost for William as he touched down in New York, not least because he\u2019s been on the receiving end of so much public criticism from Harry. He\u2019s definitely felt the harsh repercussions of Harry airing his dirty laundry in public.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Of course three of William\u2019s greatest cheerleaders were back home in the UK – Princes George and Louis and Princess Charlotte. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure William would have done his utmost to FaceTime Kate and the children to keep them in touch with what was going on and, in particular, to show the children that they remain his priority, wherever his work takes him,\u201d Jennie explains. <\/p>\n

And praising the couple\u2019s approach to tag-teaming amidst their busy schedules, she adds, \u201cThey certainly try to arrange their work schedules so that one of them can do the school run. William likes cooking but isn\u2019t very good. I\u2019m sure he can rustle up supper for the children when necessary though.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s a modern dad, quite different to his own father and while they have a nanny and help in the house, they give the impression that they like to do things for themselves like any normal family. It\u2019s a great example for the children, who are being brought up in a safe bubble of love, laughter and something approaching normality.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Kate\u2019s work last week saw her visiting the Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Yeovilton in Somerset \u2013 one of the busiest military airfields in the UK. As Commodore-in-Chief of the Fleet Air Arm, she tried her hand at flying a Wildcat Mk2 in a simulator and was applauded by staff for being \u201creally engaged, really excited and asking loads of questions\u201d. Some royal fans were more impressed by her skill at disembarking from a helicopter gracefully in high heels! <\/p>\n

She also paid a visit to Streets of Growth, a not-for-profit youth intervention charity in East London where there were claims she broke royal protocol by posing for a selfie with one of the staff. \u2018I love the fact you\u2019re going out into communities,\u201d she told frontline workers. <\/p>\n

\u201cKids are so isolated, they\u2019re at home with these huge struggles.\u201d While there, she also met mothers and daughters who\u2019ve been helped by the service and who showed her some of the shoes and jewellery they\u2019d made in creative workshops. <\/p>\n

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In recent months she and William have increasingly been striking out on solo engagements to promote their own passion projects. It suggests that their relationship is so stable, they\u2019re just as influential apart. <\/p>\n

Katie Nicholl points out, \u201cIt became a problem that Diana would eclipse Charles when with public engagements. You don\u2019t see any of that with William and Kate. Did the photo opportunity with Kate in fits of giggles wearing a life jacket overshadow the good work William was doing? No, the Earthshot Summit has had just as much press attention. <\/p>\n

"It\u2019s a testament to them as a team that they can be in different countries, doing different things and yet both generating very positive press. Neither Kate nor William see each other as a threat, they see one another as their greatest supporter.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n