Prince Harry said he needed “electric shock therapy” to erase a memory of Meghan Markle, after one curious search delivered a steamy eyeful that he desperately wanted to forget.
Six years after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made a dramatic exit from royal life and left Britain behind, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are now reportedly preparing to return to the U.K.
The couple are expected to move into a private residence outside London with Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5, who have reportedly been enrolled in British schools ahead of the new academic year.
It is a striking reversal for Harry, who, citing security concerns over his wife and kids, said in May 2025 that he couldn’t “see a world in which I would bring my wife and children back to the UK.”
And while there have been signs of an improving relationship with King Charles, the return brings Harry considerably closer to another royal relationship that has proved far more difficult to repair.
His brother William.
The heir and the ‘Spare’
Harry and William once appeared almost inseparable in public, bonded by the extraordinary circumstances of their childhood and the devastating loss of their mother, Princess Diana.
But Harry has since painted a very different picture of their relationship behind palace walls, with years of tension eventually spilling into public view following his departure from royal life.
Harry – the spare to the heir – laid out many of those grievances in his explosive 2023 memoir, “Spare” – a title that cuts directly to one of the resentments with William, the heir apparent.
That dynamic resurfaced during one of the most explosive encounters Harry described in the book.
According to the Duke, a 2019 argument at Nottingham Cottage became heated after William allegedly called Meghan “difficult,” “rude” and “abrasive,” descriptions Harry believed were simply “parrot[ing]” stories circulating in the press.
Then, he wrote, it turned physical.
“He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me 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,” Harry wrote, per The Guardian.
But that extraordinary allegation was only one of several personal revelations that Harry put into print.
Harry’s cocaine confession
The prince also revisited his teenage years, including his experience with drugs.
In “Spare,” Harry admitted using cocaine at 17 after being offered the drug during a hunting weekend, explaining that he later used it again.
