Harry and William, dukes and brothers to life to death
Close-knit since childhood, all the more since the death of their mother, Lady Diana, in 1997, the 38 and 36-year-old princes once cultivated a great bond. Back, in pictures, on nearly forty years of a fraternal friendship darkened by the "Megxit".
They have always helped each other. Have always shown that they can sacrifice each other. In May 2018, they even arrived together at the wedding of Prince Harry - who celebrates his 36th birthday this Tuesday, September 15 - and Meghan Markle. Already, in 2011, Henry of Wales was the witness of his brother William of Cambridge during his union with Kate Middleton. If relations between the two dukes have weakened since the "Megxit", it has not always been so.
Brotherly love
When Meghan Markle becomes the target of sexist and racist attacks, in November 2016, Prince William flies to the rescue of his brother's future fiancée in a statement from Kensington Palace: "The Duke of Cambridge fully understands the problem around the privacy of Prince Harry and supports his need to protect his loved ones. " In 2010, it was Prince Harry who was responsible for his brother's greatest wedding gift: Lady Diana's engagement ring, which he inherited in 1997, after their mother died in a car accident. car.
The good sons
Brought together by a love of sport - William is a water polo champion, Harry excels in polo and rugby - and devastating humor, the princes nonetheless cultivate two different personalities. Real hothead, Prince Harry is the one who made the front page of the tabloid press, who insisted on engaging in Afghanistan with British troops in 2006 and threatened to leave to live in Africa if he refused. With Prince William, the sea is calmer. Very early in the reassuring arms of Kate Middleton, met at Saint Andrews University in 2001, prepared for the throne since childhood.
What the two brothers share more than anything, however, is the memory of Diana and a common commitment to humanitarian causes. Both have notably taken over from their mother in AIDS prevention, travel regularly to Africa for the needs of the Sentebale association, which fights against poverty, and together created the Heads Together foundation, dedicated to research. on mental illnesses. A bit of seriousness that doesn't stop the mischievous brothers from taking every opportunity to joke. Back, in pictures, over nearly forty years of an assumed complicity.
