Everything Prince William Has Said About Navigating the U.K. Media: ‘I Wouldn’t Believe Everything You Read in the Paper’
alking the line. Prince William has always had a complicated relationship with the U.K. media after growing up in the limelight — but he very rarely discusses it. The Prince of Wales knows that being in the public eye comes with his royal duty. But, unlike his brother, Prince Harry , who has claimed on numerous occasions that the U.K. press hounded his family and wife Meghan Markle , William has been much more tight-lipped about his experiences . “To see this institutional gaslighting … They were happy to lie to protect my brother,” Harry alleged of The Firm and the press in a December 2022 first look at volume 2 of Netflix’s Harry & Meghan . “They were never willing to tell the truth to protect us.” The former military pilot — who stepped back from his senior royal duties in 2020 — has pointed fingers at his family and the media for allowing Meghan to be berated and attacked from the moment the pair be...