- You know, the family motto is "never complain, never explain,"
but it's just a motto, and it doesn't really hold --
-There's a lot of complaining and a lot of explaining.
- And, yes. - Being done in through leaks.
- Through leaks.
I thought that, you know, the four of us would, you know,
bring me and William closer together.
We could go out and do work together before it was Meghan,
whomever it was going to be.
I always hoped that the four of us would get on,
but very quickly, it became Meghan versus Kate.
- How would your mom feel
about your relationship with your brother now?
- I think she would be sad.
I think she'd be looking at it long term to know
that there are certain things that we need to go through
to be able to heal the relationship.
I think she would be heartbroken
that it's ended up where it's ended up.
I think she'd be heartbroken about the fact
that William, his office, were part of these stories.
And William and I made a pact.
We made a deal that, no matter what,
we would never let our offices fight against each other.
The saddest part of it was this wedge
created between myself and my brother
so that he's now on the institution side.
And part of that, I get. I understand, right?
That's -- That's his inheritance.
- Do you speak to William now?
Do you text? - Uh, currently, no.
But I look forward to --
I look forward to us being able to find peace.
- How long has it been since you spoke?
- Um, a while.
- Do you speak to your dad?
- We aren't -- We haven't spoken for quite a while.
Um, not recently.
There has always been this competition between us weirdly.
And he had a few issues, which were based not on reality,
and I was defending my wife and he was coming for my wife.
She wasn't there at the time.
But through the things that he was saying.
I was defending myself and we moved from one room
into the kitchen and his frustrations
were growing and growing and growing.
He was shouting at me. I was shouting back at him.
It wasn't nice.
It wasn't pleasant at all,
and he snapped and he pushed me to the floor.
He apologized afterwards.
It was a pretty nasty experience, but --
-He asked you not to tell anybody, not to tell Meghan.
- Yeah, and I wouldn't have done.
I didn't until she saw on my back.
She goes, "What's that?" I was like, "Uh."
He wanted me to hit him back, but I chose not to.
But, again, so much of the relationship
between me and William and the way it played out
was because of the narrative or the distorted narrative
that was being pushed through the British press
and some people within his office
that were feeding him utter nonsense.
- You think you have any responsibility
in the breakdown of the relationship?
- Without question, I'm sure.
But what people don't know is the efforts that I've gone to
to resolve this privately,
both with my brother and with my father.
I don't think my father or brother will read the book.
But what they have to say to me and what I have to say
to them will be in private, and I hope it can stay that way.
The ball is very much in their court,
but Meghan and I have continued to say
that we will openly apologize for anything that we did wrong.
At the heart of it, there is a family, without question.
And I really look forward to having that family element back.
I look forward to having a relationship with my brother.
I look forward to having a relationship with my father
and other members of my family.
- You want that?
- That's all I've ever asked for.