Prince Harry’s former best pal has fuelled rumours of a bitter feud after teaming up with Meghan Markle ’s sworn enemy, Jeremy Clarkson.

The former Top Gear host hit the headlines in 2022 after he wrote an article in The Sun newspaper, in which Jeremy cruelly described how much he hated the Duchess of Sussex.

In the column, Clarkson shared his hopes of the Duchess of Sussex being paraded naked in the street – which was later ruled as sexist by the press regulator.

Harry and Meghan blasted the article, which was removed by The Sun, and said it spread “hate rhetoric” as well as “dangerous conspiracy theories and misogyny”.

However, it seems that one of the Duke of Sussex ’s closest friends has now switched sides, as he was spotted in an episode of Jeremy’s hit Amazon Prime show, Clarkson’s Farm. Hugh van Cutsem,

who has known both Harry and Prince William since they were children, was seen stalking deer in episode seven of the show alongside Jeremy,

suggesting the 49-year-old was yet another friend who has had a falling out with the prince.

Hugh’s father, also called Hugh, was one of King Charles’ oldest friends, and the men went to the University of Cambridge together in the 1960s. They remained firm pals, and their children all became close, with William serving as senior usher at Hugh’s wedding to Rose Astor in 2005, as well as being godfather to the couple’s daughter Grace. She was also a bridesmaid at William and Catherine’s wedding in 2011, and the van Cutsems reached out to Harry and Meghan when the former actress relocated to the UK in 2017. The couple also attended the Sussexes’ wedding in 2018, but cracks in their friendship began to show just two years later.

When Harry and Meghan announced they were stepping down from their roles as senior royals, Rose landed herself in hot water as she publicly mocked the couple in a cheeky post on social media. “I am standing back as a senior member of my tax return because I’d rather drink coffee, see my friends, love my family and do yoga,” she wrote. However, she later apologised, and cryptically added: “I can’t say anything. I’m sure you understand. I’m going to be in so much trouble.”

The father-of-two confirmed his rift with former childhood friend Hugh in his memoir Spare, as she revealed his wife Emilie had contacted him following the couple’s bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021. “Several close mates and beloved figures in my life, including one of Hugh and Emilie’s sons, Emilie herself, and even Tiggy [Pettifer, his former nanny], had chastised me for Oprah. How could you reveal such things? About your family?” he recalled.

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Source: Tampa Bay Times