Prince William gave 'barrier gesture' towards Harry that proved rift, says expert
dailyrecord.co.ukPrince William displayed a 'barrier gesture' towards Prince Harry at a royal event last year, one royal biographer claims. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended their first royal event after stepping down as senior royals for a service of thanksgiving for the late Queen at St Paul's Cathedral during her Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
During the event, Prince William and Kate Middleton were also in attendance as fans watched on to see if the couples would interact with one another.
At the event, William and Kate had to walk past where Harry and Meghan were sitting on the way to their seat and did not acknowledge the couple at all.
Body language expert Judi James says William adopted a "barrier gesture" as he ignored his brother. Judi told The Mirror: "Harry looked firmly resigned to the back row here and was not sitting behind his brother as he was for the last service of remembrance."Harry’s expression did suggest some relief as he joked with Zara as he searched for his car on the way out and he threw a wide, open-mouthed grin in her direction from the pews, but otherwise he fell into a haunted eye expression with some rapid blinking to suggest inner anxiety, leaning in and down to Meghan when she spoke as though keen to get some support."There was the opposite to an acknowledgement from William as he walked past Harry’s row during the parade out of the service.She added: "Sucking in his lips and with his chin pulled up in a gesture of resolve he appeared to turn his head in the other direction for a moment, raising his order of service high in a barrier gesture."After the Jubilee last summer, the feuding brothers were forced together just months later after the death of their late grandmother the Queen.
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