PRINCE William has ended his 20-year friendship with Tom Bradby after the ITV news anchor sided with Harry and Meghan, it has been claimed.
The Duke of Cambridge reportedly feels “let down” by the high profile journalist’s relationship with his brother.
Now the two decade long relationship is over, according to a royal insider.
They told Mail Online’s Dan Wooton: ‘The friendship between William and Tom is very much over.
“The Duke feels let down by Bradby and the way he’s acted over the past few months.
“William is a sensitive soul and believes it’s in times of crisis when you find out who your true friends are.
“It would be fair to say Bradby hasn’t been one of them.”
According to reports, senior royal aids are not happy with Bradby and ITV News’ reporting on Harry and Meghan’s split from the royal family.
Bradby, who works on ITV News At Ten, spoke exclusively to The Duke and Duchess of Sussex during their Royal tour of Africa.
In the documentary Meghan made a dig at the royal family saying: “Not many people have asked if I’m okay.
“It’s a very real thing to go through behind the scenes…it has really been a struggle.”
Meanwhile Harry admitted to Bradby that him and William were “on different paths at the moment.”
The royal source said: “Some staff at the Palaces are even angrier about Bradby and the tone of his reporting at ITV News, which they consider to be pro-Harry and Meghan.
“It’s well-known Bradby personally communicates with Harry on a regular basis and that is pretty obvious to royal aides who know how things work.
“But it’s been very difficult to accept given the long history between Bradby and William.”
More recently, Meghan and Harry’s explosive tell-all interview with Oprah was bought for £1million by ITV.
In the past Prince William specially selected Bradby to conduct exclusive interviews with him and his wife.
Bradby was given the opportunity to to interview the couple following their engagement in Novemeber 2010.
A spokesman for William at the time said: “The couple asked to record this interview specifically with Mr Bradby, whom they have both known for some time.”
Earlier this year Bradby admitted he went easier on Meghan and Harry during the royal African tour because they were “vulnerable”.
Bradby revealed he changed his approach after finding the couple “bruised”, while speaking to them for Harry & Meghan: An African Journey.
Mr Bradby told US breakfast show Good Morning America he had planned to do a “more conventional journalistic job”.
But said: “The reality I found was just a couple that seemed a bit bruised and vulnerable – with mental health and all the rest of it you have to be careful what words you use – that was the story I found and it seemed the right journalistic thing to do, to try and tell that story as empathetically as I could.
“We had a couple of private heart-to-hearts before we did the interview and I said ‘let’s just go out and tell the truth as you see it’.
“The thing about Harry is, whether in private or in public, if you ask him an honest question he’ll give you an honest answer, for better or worse.”
