Prince William has been pictured for the first time since Prince Harry revealed their rift continues and claimed the future king is "trapped" in the Royal Family.
During an explosive interview alongside wife Meghan Markle, Harry told Oprah Winfrey there is "space" between him and William, and the brothers are on "different paths" in life.
The Duke of Sussex, 36, said he feels compassion for William and their dad, Prince Charles, who was also seen in public for the first time on Tuesday, because they are "trapped within the system".
But Harry said he feels "really let down" by his father, who "stopped taking my calls" after the Sussexes left the UK for Canada.
The Queen, Charles and William are facing mounting pressure to respond to Meghan and Harry's bombshell tell-all, including a damning claim that a member of the the Firm made a racist comment about their son Archie before his birth in May 2019.
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Wearing a face mask, the Duke of Cambridge, 38, was seen driving a car in west London on Tuesday, less than 48 hours after the interview watched by 11 million people on ITV in the UK and 17 million on CBS in the US.
William, wife Kate Middleton and their children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, have returned to the capital after spending time at their country estate in Norfolk during England's third Covid-19 lockdown.
George and Charlotte returned to Thomas's Battersea in London as the shutdown was eased and schools reopened on Monday.
Charles, meanwhile, toured an NHS pop-up coronavirus vaccination centre at the Jesus House church in Brent, north-west London.
The 72-year-old heir walked by with a "nervous chuckle" and didn't respond when a reporter asked him to comment on the Oprah interview.
He wore a face mask as he spoke to NHS and church staff, and people receiving jabs.
It was his first public appearance since the tell-all in which Harry claimed Charles had stopped taking his calls after the Sussexes left the UK for Canada more than a year ago.
Harry also accused his family of failing to give enough support to him and Meghan, 39, and failing to understand their situation.
The duke told Oprah he hopes his relationships with Charles and William improve in the future.
Harry said of his older brother: "You know, as I've said before, I love William to bits. He's my brother.
"We've been through hell together. I mean, we have a shared experience. But, you know, we're on different paths."
As Oprah pressed him on the rift, Harry said: "The relationship is space, at the moment. Time heals all things, hopefully."
Harry also told the chat show queen that he feels "really let down" by his father.
While the Sussexes were in Canada, where they decided to quit their royal duties, Harry said he had three conversation with his grandmother, the Queen, and two with Charles before his father "stopped taking my calls".
Harry said Charles stopped speaking to him for a time because "by that point I'd took matters into my own hands".
The pair are back on speaking terms.
Harry said of his dad: "I feel really let down because he's been through something similar, he knows what pain feels like, (and) Archie's his grandson.
"But at the same time - I will always love him - but there's a lot of hurt that's happened and I will continue to make it one of my priorities to try and heal that relationship.
"But they only know what they know, or what they're told."
The duke, who also felt "trapped" in the monarchy, added of Charles and William: “My father and my brother, they are trapped. They don’t get to leave. And I have huge compassion for that.”
Pressure is mounting on Buckingham Palace to respond to accusations of racism in the royal family following an explosive interview by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Amid crisis talks, Palace officials reportedly had a prepared statement highlighting the family's love and concern for the couple, but it was not signed off by the monarch.
Meghan, who is pregnant with a girl, and Harry laid bare their brief lives as a working royal couple, alleging that a member of the family - not the Queen or Duke of Edinburgh - made a racist comment about their unborn son.
Oprah was left open-mouthed when the duchess - the first mixed-race member of the modern monarchy - said a fellow royal was worried about how dark their son Archie's skin tone might be before he was born.
During the candid conversation, Meghan suggested her son was not made a prince because of his race - although rules set by George V meant he was not entitled to be one.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the allegations made by the duchess must be taken seriously.
He said: "Nobody, but nobody, should be prejudiced (against) because of the colour of their skin or because of their mental health issues."
Harry also said it "hurts" that none of his relatives spoke out in support of Meghan following the racism he said she faced in the media.
Meanwhile in the US, where race is recognised to be a big issue, former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton backed Meghan.
In a clip shown on BBC Breakfast, she said: "This young woman was not about to keep her head down, you know, this is 2021."
The duchess also spoke about having suicidal thoughts but said her approaches to the monarchy for help were turned down.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki praised Harry and Meghan's courage when asked if US President Joe Biden had watched the interview.
Ms Psaki told journalists on Monday: "For anyone to come forward and speak about their own struggles with mental health and tell their own personal story, that takes courage.
"That's certainly something the president believes."
Meanwhile, Meghan's estranged father, Thomas Markle, has spoken of his "great respect" for the royals, adding: "I don't think the British royal family are racist at all."
Mr Markle told ITV's Good Morning Britain that "yes, a racist comment should be investigated" but said he hoped the comment on skin tone was "just a dumb question".
He said: "It could just be that simple, it could be somebody asked a stupid question, rather than being a total racist."
Winfrey asked Meghan of Archie's lack of title: "Do you think it's because of his race? I know that's a loaded question."
Meghan replied: "I can give you an honest answer. In those months when I was pregnant, all around this same time, so we (had) the conversation of he won't be given security, he's not going to be given a title.
"And also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born."
The chat show host was told it had been raised by a member of the royal family with Harry, but the couple did not reveal who.
Royal biographer Andrew Morton said the fallout from the interview will "shudder down through the generations in the same way that Diana's did".
In her now infamous Panorama interview in 1995, Harry's mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, called royal officials "the enemy" and questioned Charles's suitability to be king.
Life behind palace doors has not been exposed to this degree since the days of the "War of the Waleses", when the turmoil of Charles and Diana's disintegrating marriage was laid bare in the 1990s.
The interview was watched by more than 11 million people on ITV, according to the head of home news at the broadcaster.
Commenting on a tweet from Variety, Matt Williams wrote: "Over 11 million people watched the Oprah iv with Meghan and Harry on @ITV last night. There was a peak of over 12 million."
It is a year on Tuesday since Meghan and Harry carried out their final official public engagement as senior working royals, attending the Commonwealth Day service in Westminster Abbey.
Other revelations included Harry's admission that he has become estranged from his father, saying: "I feel really let down", but added that he would make it one of his priorities "to try and heal that relationship".
Meghan said the Duchess of Cambridge had made her cry ahead of her wedding - the opposite of reports circulating ahead of the Sussexes' nuptials that Meghan left Kate in tears at Princess Charlotte's bridesmaid dress fitting.
In a lighter moment, the couple, who announced in February that they are expecting their second child, said they are due to have a baby girl in the summer.
Commenting on her mental health crisis, when she felt she did not "want to be alive anymore", the duchess said: "I went to the institution, and I said that I needed to go somewhere to get help. I said that I've never felt this way before, and I need to go somewhere.
"And I was told that I couldn't, that it wouldn't be good for the institution."
Meghan described how nothing was done when she contacted other unnamed individuals and she "had to find a solution".
When Winfrey suggested if the answer was "I don't want to be alive anymore," Meghan replied: "Well, I thought it would have solved everything for everyone, right?"
Harry was equally cutting about the financial support he received from his family, saying they "literally cut me off financially" in the first quarter of 2020, and he went for the Netflix and Spotify deals to pay for his security.
He said he had what Diana left him and "without that we would not have been able to do this".
In the wake of the interview, a touching family photograph of the Sussexes and their young son Archie was released.
The black and white image taken and shared by photographer Misan Harriman captures a smiling, pregnant Meghan standing by a tree, cuddling her son, as Harry stands behind her, embracing his wife.
