Prince William publicly mentioning his estranged brother Prince Harry in his upcoming ITV documentary has certainly raised eyebrows.

The warring brothers are not believed to have spoken for more than two years since the death of their grandmother, the late Queen, with their rift widening after the release of Harry’s controversial tell-all memoir Spare, where he railed against William. In a new teaser for his ITV documentary on homelessness, William talks about his brother when recounting how their late mother, Princess Diana, took them to a homeless shelter in London to open their eyes to life without royal comforts.

He says: “My mother took me to the Passage, she took Harry and I both there… I must have been about 11, I think probably at the time, maybe 10. I’d never been to anything like that before, and I was a bit anxious as to what to expect.”

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And even though it was the first time in many years that William has publicly acknowledged his brother, it seems he has talked about him in the past, even when their feud was raging. Back in early 2022, when William and wife Kate headed off on a tour of the Caribbean, the Prince of Wales talked about his brother then.

It came when the couple showed off their dance moves with nine local schoolchildren from the Garifuna Cultural Centre in Belize. During the engagement, William was reportedly asked about Harry’s previous trip to Belize in 2012 – when he also showed off his dance moves.

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Cynthia Ellis-Topsy, ambassador at large for the Garifuna nation, told PEOPLE magazine : “I said to William that when [his brother] Prince Harry came to Belize he was dancing and didn’t need encouragement. He is a wild card. William laughed and said, ‘Harry’s not self-conscious’.”

Then, several months later, in September 2022, in the days after the late Queen’s death, Harry celebrated his 38th birthday on the same day William and Kate met wellwishers and mourners at the Sandringham estate. During the walkabout, one wellwisher asked William if he had forgotten it was his brother’s birthday. But he replied: “It is his birthday today – you’re absolutely right, it is.” When he was asked if he’d forgotten, he laughed: “No, I’ve not forgotten.”

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ITV)William’s latest mention of Harry comes in his new ITV documentary called Prince William : We Can End Homelessness. The prince was followed for the programme during the first year of his Homewards initiative.

The campaign is a major long-term focus for William, who has told how visiting shelters with his late mother when he was a child left a deep and lasting impression and inspired his work. Homewards aims to develop a blueprint for eradicating homelessness in all its forms, “making it rare, brief and unrepeated”. Previously unseen pictures, used in the documentary, which show the prince on his first visits to The Passage with his mother in 1993, have also been released.

In one image, William wears a red polo shirt and is playing chess during a visit on June 14 1993 and in the others he is in a suit and tie with Diana on December 14 of the same year seen holding presents in one image, in the kitchen in another and sitting down in the last.

During the past year, the Homewards teams in six UK locations – Newport, Lambeth, Belfast, Aberdeen, Sheffield and three neighbouring Dorset towns, Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch – have been building collaborations between the public, private and third sectors.