Prince Harry Says Prince William Got Super Competitive Over His Wedding Beard
You know how Prince Harry had a beard on his wedding day? Well apparently this was (weirdly) a huge issue for Prince William, who had some beard-related jealousy over the incident.
Harry had to ask the Queen's permission to keep the beard for his wedding day—and he and Prince William had an argument over it which ended in Wills ordering him to shave it off. Which is...bizarre to say the least.
Harry spoke about the incident (which he details in his memoir) to ITV's Tom Bradby, saying "I mean I refer to it as heir/spare but also older brother/younger brother, right, there's a—there's a level of competition there. And again, writing this, I remembered that William had a beard himself and that granny and other people, the ones to tell—told him that he had to shave it off.
Harry continued that, "The difference for me, if there was a difference, but the difference for me was, as I explained to my grandmother, that this beard I'm still—that I'm still wearing, felt to me at the time like the new Harry. Right? As almost like a shield to my anxiety. That was the time of my life when I grew my beard. I think William found it hard that other people told him to shave it off, and yet here I was on my wedding day wearing military uniform, no longer in the military, but thinking as though I—believing as though I should shave it off before my wedding day. And I said 'Well I don't believe that Meghan's gonna recognize me if she comes up the aisle and sees me beardless."
Here's Wills with a beard, FYI!
Harry finished off the convo saying, "I would feel very, very different without my beard, and that's hard for people to understand who've never grown a beard, but hopefully those beard people out there will go 'Yeah, no, I fully get that, I can understand.'"
....Huh!
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