'He grabbed me by the collar, knocked me to the floor.’ Prince Harry narrates physical assault by William in his memoir 'Spare'

In his highly-anticipated, explosive tell-all memoir ‘Spare’, Prince Harry is expected to drop one shocking revelation about the British Royal family after another. In an exclusive excerpt posted by The Guardian, Harry shared details of an ugly showdown between himself and his estranged elder brother William.

When Two Brothers Came To Blows

In his book, Harry claimed that William physically attacked him during an argument. The two had a spat over Harry’s wife American actress Meghan Markle. William initiated the fight by calling Meghan "difficult", "rude" and "abrasive". Harry countered that he was mistaken and was “parroting the press narrative” about the ‘Suits’ star.


The spat took an uglier turn when the siblings came to blows. According to Harry, the elder prince grabbed him by the collar and knocked him to the floor. “ 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," he stated.

The brawl had reportedly left the younger prince with a visible back injury.

Although the siblings were close once, cracks appeared in their relationship when Harry renounced his royal title in 2020 and moved to California, USA with his wife. The rift intensified when the couple dropped several bombshells about the royal family during an interview with Oprah Winfrey.

The couple, who are on a tell-all roll, recently recounted the cause of their rift with the royal family in a Netflix docuseries titled 'Harry & Meghan'. They claimed that Markle has been a victim of vicious online trolling and racist tabloid attacks, some of which may have been orchestrated by the royal family.

The no-holds-barred biography will be released on January 10. The book highlights the younger prince's frustrations at being considered a perpetual after-thought. In the eyes of Harry, the royal family is guilty of showing favouritism to Prince William and ignoring him as he was the second born.