Prince Harry appears to hint at rift between him and Prince William

Prince Harry sensationally appears to admit to a rift between him and Prince William — as he said the royal brothers are traveling on “different paths.”

Buckingham Palace has strenuously tried for the past year to deny a breakdown in the brothers’ relationship, even as they broke up the Royal Foundation they started together.

In a brutally honest new documentary, filmed as Harry and wife Meghan Markle were on tour in Africa last month with their baby son, Archie, Harry said things had become so bad for the couple in the UK that they were keen to move abroad — as Meghan said they were “existing, not living.”

And asked about his relationship with his older brother, who is said to believe he rushed into marriage too quickly, Harry said: “Part of this role, part of this job and this family being under the pressure it is under, inevitably stuff happens.”

As ITV broadcaster and longtime royal pal Tom Bradby asked how much of the speculation about the brothers was correct, Harry started to laugh before replying: “But look, we are brothers, we will always be brothers. We are certainly on different paths at the moment, but I will always be there for him and, as I know, he will always be there for me.

“We don’t see as much as we used to because we are so busy but I love him dearly and the majority of stuff is created out of nothing.

“As brothers, you have good days, you have bad days.”

Plans to create a “Fab Four” fell apart in the run-up to last year’s royal wedding, with Harry apparently accusing his elder brother of failing to support him and Meghan. William’s wife, Kate, is also believed to have struggled to get along with Meghan.

Harry and Meghan — named Duke and Duchess of Sussex after their marriage — then moved out of Kensington Palace, where they were neighbors with William and Kate, to a property the Queen gifted them on her Windsor estate. They also split their joint household, moving their staff over to Buckingham Palace.

While Kate and William remain the figureheads of the Royal Foundation, Harry and Meghan are launching their own Sussex Royal Foundation, which palace aides had said was a mutual decision.

But Harry also told Bradby he was determined not to let the press bully him and Meghan, and that how the media pursued his mother, the late Princess Diana, still haunts him.

He also spoke of the significant pressure of being a member of the royal family in the spotlight after being asked, “Do you feel at peace in a way yet or is it still a sort of wound that festers?”

Harry replied: “I think probably a wound that festers. I think being part of this family, in this role, in this job, every single time I see a camera, every single time I hear a click, every single time I see a flash, it takes me straight back, so in that respect, it’s the worst reminder of her life as opposed to the best.

“My mum taught me a certain set of values that I will always try to uphold, despite the role and the job that sometimes that entails.

“I will always protect my family and now I have a family to protect.

“So everything that she went through, and what happened to her, is incredibly important every single day, and that is not me being paranoid, that is just me not wanting a repeat of the past.

“If anybody else knew what I knew, be it a father or be it a husband, be it anyone, you would probably be doing exactly what I am doing as well.”

In the documentary, Harry described it as “constant management,” adding: “I thought I was out of the woods and then suddenly it all came back, and this is something that I have to manage.

“Part of this job, and part of any job, like everybody, is putting on a brave face and turning a cheek to a lot of the stuff, but again, for me and again for my wife, of course there is a lot of stuff that hurts, especially when the majority of it is untrue.

“But all we need to do is focus on being real, and focus on being the people that we are, and standing up for what we believe in.

“I will not be bullied into playing a game that killed my mum.”

Meghan also participated in the doc, telling filmmakers she is “existing, not living” and is struggling with the pressures of royal life and media scrutiny.

She said: “It’s hard. I don’t think anybody can understand that. In all fairness, I had no idea, which probably sounds difficult to understand, but when I first met Harry, my friends were so excited, my US friends were happy because I was happy.

“But my British friends, they were sure he was lovely, but they said I shouldn’t do it because ‘the British tabloids will destroy your life.’

“Because I’m American, I very naively didn’t get it. It’s complicated.”

Meghan added: “I never thought that this would be easy, but I thought it would be fair and that’s the part that’s really hard to reconcile.”

In the interview with ITV, screened in the US on ABC on Wednesday, the Duchess of Sussex said she has found the focus on her after her marriage and giving birth a struggle, adding: “Not many people have asked if I’m OK.

“I’ve said for a long time to H — that’s what I call him — it is not enough to just survive something. That’s not the point of life. You’ve got to thrive and feel happy.

“I really tried to adopt this British sensibility of a stiff upper lip. I tried, I really tried.

“But I think what that does internally is probably really damaging.”

Bradby pointed out that her position of privilege, wealth and fame comes with scrutiny, to which she responded: “When people are saying things that are just untrue, and they are being told they are untrue but they are allowed to still say them, I don’t know anybody in the world who would feel that’s OK and that is different from just scrutiny.

“I think the grass is always greener. You have no idea. It is really hard to understand what it’s like.

“The good thing is that I have got my baby and I have got my husband and they are the best.”

When Meghan was asked about the impact the intense public scrutiny has had on her “physical and mental health” and how Harry is being “protective” of her after what happened to his mother, she replied: “Look, any woman, especially when they are pregnant, you’re really vulnerable and so that was made really challenging, and then when you have a newborn — you know …

“And especially as a woman, it’s a lot.

“So you add this on top of just trying to be a new mom or trying to be a newlywed it’s, well …”

She continued: “Also, thank you for asking, because not many people have asked if I’m OK. But it’s a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes.”

Bradby replied: “And the answer is, would it be fair to say, not really OK, as in it’s really been a struggle?” Meghan, visibly upset, then replied: “Yes.”

Meanwhile, Harry voiced his desire to leave the UK and revealed he is considering living in Africa one day.

He said: “I don’t know where we could live in Africa at the moment.

“We’ve just come from Cape Town, that would be an amazing place for us to be able to base ourselves, of course it would.

“But with all the problems that are going on there, I just don’t see how we would be able to really make as much difference as we’d want to.”

Harry also revealed Africa will be the main focus of his and Meghan’s work in the future.

He said: “The rest of our lives, especially our life’s work will be predominantly focused on Africa, on conservation.

“There are 19 commonwealth countries across this continent, there’s a lot of things to be done, there’s a lot of problems here but there’s also huge potential for solutions.”

Speaking about the trip, he added: “We’ve traversed across Africa, we’ve met a hell of a lot of people. There’s a lot of work to do.

“We have to make sure the money spent on this trip is worth it so the public understand what we’re trying to do.

“We’re certainly not trying to lead the way, we’re trying to do what is right.

“We want to be authentic.”