Prince Harry decided royal life wasn't for him after 'realising there was something rotten' at the heart of it, a bombshell new book has claimed.
Robert Lacey's Battle of Brothers lifts the lid on the difficulties in Princes William and Harry's relationship, based on information from trusted insiders at the palace.
The book is critical of many members of the royal family, including Prince William, the Queen and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Ahead of the book's launch, Lacey claims Harry needs to find a "new destiny" after quitting the Firm and moving to LA.
He writes: "He realised there was something rotten at the heart of royalness that is not for him."
He also hits out at the way the royal family dealt with Meghan, saying her joining the Firm was handled "appallingly".
However, Meghan and Harry are also slammed in the book, which portrays them as self-pitying and having an "astonishing level of entitlement", reports the Daily Mail, which is serialising the book this weekend.
Lacey also warns that the rift between William and Harry, which he claims is much worse than people realise, need to be healed otherwise it will become one of the "traumas" that historians look back on and say changed the royal family forever.
He writes that the whole modern royalty was built on the assumption that William and Harry would stick together, but Meghan joining the royal family has changed this.
He writes: "What you’ve got to realise is that the whole strategy of the monarchy was based on them sticking together. Meghan changed all that. She is difficult. She has an incredible and dangerous level of self-belief.
"But the Palace got this very wrong, as it always does with the second-born. They always treat the second-born badly, not to say cruelly. It happened with Princess Margaret.
"It happened with Prince Andrew. It’s the classic heir and the spare thing. They just don’t know what to do with the spare. And they certainly didn’t know what to do with the spare’s wife."
