Royal Family Wants Prince Harry To 'Stop Speaking' After Recent Comments, Expert Suggests

Prince Harry airing his grievances against the royal family in the media has only worsened their already tense relationship, according to a royal expert.

Since their March interview with Oprah Winfrey, Prince Harry has gone on to talk about his and wife Meghan Markle's mental health struggles and his family's lack of support when their relationship was targeted by tabloids during his appearance on Dax Shepard's "Armchair Expert" and in new docuseries "The Me You Can't See."

Royal expert Nick Bullen told Us Weekly Prince William "is very shocked by the amount of things that his brother has said over the last few weeks," referring to Prince Harry's podcast interview earlier this month where he compared being a member of the royal family to "living in a zoo."

Bullen noted that while Prince William likely also wants to fix his relationship with Prince Harry, this would not be easy as the brothers' dynamic is "different" from that of a parent and child wanting to reconcile. However, the royal expert said he remains hopeful that Prince William and Prince Harry will eventually put their feud behind them, though "it’s going to take some time."

For now, Bullen joked that the royal family as a whole likely wants the Duke of Sussex to "please stop speaking" about their private matters.

"I’m sure the royal family and the various royal households just want a moment of calm and [are saying], ‘Let’s not have any more headlines. Let’s just have a period when no one’s speaking,’" the True Royalty TV co-founder told the outlet.

Queen Elizabeth II was "unimpressed" with Prince Harry's podcast interview with Shepard and actually found it "hurtful," an unnamed insider previously told Us Weekly. The source also said that it "hasn’t done their relationship any favors."

"It definitely hasn’t helped with healing the rift," the source added. "They feel it was thoughtless and irresponsible of Harry to once again shade The Firm so soon after Prince Philip’s death, while the queen is still mourning the death of her husband."

Meanwhile, in the Apple TV+ docuseries he co-produced with Winfrey, Prince Harry also claimed that his wife was the victim of the firm and U.K. media's coordinated smear campaign in the days leading up to their bombshell CBS interview.

"Because of the headlines and that combined effort of the firm and the media to smear her, I was woken in the middle of the night to [Meghan] crying in her pillow because she doesn't want to wake me up — because I'm already carrying too much," Prince Harry said. "That's heartbreaking. I held her. We talked. She cried, and she cried, and she cried."

Days before the March 7 interview aired, the U.K.'s The Times published a report that claimed the Duchess of Sussex allegedly bullied her staff. Buckingham Palace then released a statement saying they were "very concerned about allegations" and that they will investigate "the circumstances outlined in the article."