What 'Diana got wrong about Harry': Late Princess believed 'happy-go-lucky' son would be 'fine' and he even told Prince William 'if you don't want to be King, I will', INGRID SEWARD tells Palace Confidential

Prince Harry once told Prince William 'if you don't want to be King, I will be', according to royal author Ingrid Seward, who claimed Princess Diana was more 'worried' about her 'reticent' older son.While discussing her new book, Catherine & Diana, on the Daily Mail's flagship Palace Confidential show, Ms Seward revealed the late Princess of Wales fretted about William because he 'didn't like the attention' that came with being a future monarch.When host Luke Blackall asked Ms Seward whether there were similarities between Diana and Harry's vulnerabilities about being a public figure, she said: 'It was William she worried about.'While Prince Harry, now 42, stepped away from his role as a working royal alongside his wife, Meghan Markle, in 2020 citing privacy concerns, he apparently loved the 'pageantry and pomp' growing up - and even told William he would happily 'be King' in his place.'Funny thing is, Diana always said to me, "Oh, Harry will be fine!" She got that wrong, didn't she?' Ms Seward said, referring to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's decision to quit the Royal Family six years ago in what is known as 'Megxit'.'She said, "He'll be fine, he's happy-go-lucky, he takes the world as he finds it,"' Ms Seward recalled the late Princess telling her. 'Well, he's completely changed. She was wrong about Harry, but it was William she was worried about. Prince Harry once told Prince William 'if you don't want to be King, I will be', royal author Ingrid Seward has claimed, adding that Princess Diana was more 'worried' about her 'reticent' older sonMs Seward, who has reported on the Firm for 40 years and knew Diana privately, said the princess recognised that William, who was 15 when she tragically died in a car crash in Paris, found the spotlight uncomfortable. 'William didn't like the attention that was focused on him from a very young age, and Harry used to say to him, "If you don't want to be King, I will be," she said. 'Harry loved castles and soldiers and horses, and all the pageantry and the pomp, and William was more reticent and thought things through.' Despite being close while growing up, the brothers - who remain estranged in the wake of Harry and Meghan's return to the UK - could not be more different. Ms Seward added that their former royal protection officer, Ken Wharfe, summed up their personalities succinctly when he said: 'If somebody was knocked over in the road, Harry would run out and deal with it. William would get on the phone to the police.''Harry does things without thinking about them,' Ms Seward concluded, adding that the Duke has done 'some incredibly damaging things to the monarchy' and 'made some very hurtful remarks' in his memoir Spare. In one of the book's most shocking revelations, Harry claimed William injured him by pushing him onto a dog bowl during a heated argument about their relationship, Harry's rows with the press and the Duchess of Sussex. Diana, then-Princess of Wales, holding Prince Harry in her arms as she watched Trooping the Colour with Prince William and Princess Margaret in 1988 Earlier this year, the Daily Mail's Editor-at-Large Richard Kay told Palace Confidential that Diana believed William 'never really wanted the top job' and quietly worked to pave the way for a potential King Harry.Kay became a close personal friend of Diana in the final years of her life, going on to win the coveted title of Royal Reporter of the Year for his coverage of her tragic death.He is widely believed to be one of the last people ever to speak to the Princess, having exchanged a final phone call with her on the evening of 30 August 1997, just hours before the crash that would claim her life.Speaking to Palace Confidential host and former You magazine editor Jo Elvin, Kay revealed that Diana believed William, 'a shy young man' at the time, would grow up not wanting to be King.'The generation I had the most opportunity to study closely is the William and Harry generation. They were babies when I started and it has been very interesting to see them develop.'William has been a bit of a surprise. Certainly when his mother was still alive, he was a shy young man. Diana used to tell me she never really thought that William wanted the top job.'In her mind, Diana was preparing the way for Harry to succeed his father. She had a little nickname for him, good King Harry. A throwback to medieval days.'Of course, things didn't work out like that. I think we're all rather grateful that they haven't worked out like that.'I think the consensus is that we got the right one. We've got the right one in William as Prince of Wales.'Prince William and Harry have not spoken to each other since Queen Elizabeth's funeral in September 2022, and it is believed there has not been any sort of contact for more than two and a half years.But Harry did tell the BBC last year that he wanted to change that, saying 'There's no point in continuing to fight any more.'Friends of the Waleses are said to have claimed the couple are unable to forgive a series of hugely damaging broadsides by the Sussexes after 'Megxit' in 2020, including the suggestion William left him with visible 'scrapes and bruises' after their alleged fight at Nottingham Cottage. Watch the latest episode of Palace Confidential on YouTube.