Over the years, the royal family has seen their fair share of heartbreak and drama.
With affairs, break ups and deaths, they’ve really been through the mill – and they’ve been through it all under the watchful eye of the public as well.
The combination of these factors was always bound to lead to some tension and rifts among family members – and rumours of rocky relationships have been swirling for some time.
But according to a royal insider, there may be more truth to the rumours than we previously thought, especially when it comes to Prince Charles and his sons, Harry and William .
According to an anonymous source, the relationship between the two boys and their father is "strained".
"They are very different people and they just don’t get on. It’s as simple as that. They rarely see each other outside of official business," the source told The Daily Beast .
And there’s one thing in particular that the boys do that Charles disapproves of – public emoting.
Apparently the Prince of Wales "hates" that his children have become popular with the public for discussing their feelings about the loss of their mother, Princess Diana .
William and Harry opened up about their mother’s death for a BBC documentary in 2017, marking 20 years since the tragic car accident which claimed her life.
The interview was intended to help reduce stigma around mental illnesses.
Harry, 33, said about his initial reaction to being told, while at Balmoral, that his mother was dead: "Disbelief, refused to accept it."
Prince William, 36, added: "I remember just feeling completely numb, disorientated, dizzy.
"You feel very, very confused.
"And you keep asking yourself ‘why me?’ all the time ‘why, what have I done? why, why has this happened to us?’."
Charles did not feature in the documentary.
The 69-year-old had a difficult relationship with Diana, and is thought to have been having an affair with Camilla Parker Bowles throughout their engagement and marriage – with Diana once finding a bracelet he had commissioned as a secret gift for her.
Diana and Charles divorced in 1996 after receiving a letter from the Queen advising them that was the best decision for everyone.
As well as their "emoting", Charles is also thought to disapprove of the younger royals more laid back approach to royal tradition.
The Daily Beast reports that William, Kate, Harry and Meghan all call staff at the palace by their first name, which he views as a rejection of his communication style.
Writer Christopher Andersen has also suggested that Charles is unhappy with the amount of work William and Kate undertake.
He said: "William is unhappy with Charles’s camp for promulgating the notion that the Cambridges aren’t pulling their weight.
"In fairness, they have three young children and there is no reasonable way they can be expected to match the hundreds of tree-plantings, plaque-unveilings, ribbon-cuttings, hospital visits, and walkabouts Charles and Camilla perform each year."
Despite these reports, Charles recently played a key role at the royal wedding in May, making a touching speech about his "darling" Harry.
The boys have also publicly praised their father’s behaviour after their mother’s death.
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Harry said: "One of the hardest things for a parent to have to do is to tell your children that your other parent has died.
“How you deal with that I don’t know.
“But, you know, he was there for us.
“He was the one out of two left and he tried to do his best and to make sure that we were protected and looked after.
“But, you know, he was going through the same grieving process as well.”
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