Prince William bewildered by Harry’s request for an apology, as pro-Russian hackers claim cyber-attack on Royal Family

According to a royal expert, Prince William doesn’t know why younger brother Prince Harry expects an apology from the royal family.

Earlier this year, during his promotional ventures for his tell-all memoir, Harry said that he wants his family to sit down with him and have a “proper conversation” about the ongoing feud between Harry and wife Meghan and the rest of the royals.

Speaking to GB News, royal historian Gareth Russell said: “In Spare, he spent so much time complaining about who got the better room at Balmoral. Plus, for it to be released in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis was an interesting move,” said Russell.

“It does emerge as quite personal and maybe longstanding, and maybe it is jealousy. As the title of the memoir suggests, Prince Harry has always felt like a spare, so basically it’s just the luck of the family tree there.

“He makes quite cryptic comments like ‘They know what they did’.”

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Pro-Russian hackers claim responsibility

On Sunday morning the official website of the Britain’s Royal Family went down, with pro-Russian hackers claiming responsibility for the cyber blackout.

The website, royal.uk, went down for over an hour on Sunday morning due to a denial-of-service attack, a tactic for overwhelming a machine or network to make it unavailable, a royal source told ABC News.

The source said the website was not hacked because no access was gained to systems or content. It was unclear who was responsible fort the denial-of-service attack, according to the source.

The cyberattack seems to be linked to Prince Andrew, was accused of sexually abusing an American woman when she was 17, claims the prince has denied.

Pro-Russia hacktivist group that calls itself Killnet claimed to be behind what it described as an “attack on paedophiles.”

Killnet has been active since at least 2022, around the time that Russia launched an invasion of neighbouring Ukraine.

The group has become known for its distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against countries supporting Ukraine in the ongoing war, especially NATO members, according to an analyst note released earlier this year by the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

“While KillNet’s DDoS attacks usually do not cause major damage, they can cause service outages lasting several hours or even days,” the note states.

Sunday’s attack comes days after Britain’s King Charles voiced support for Ukraine during a speech at the French Senate in Paris.

He referred to Russia’s “military aggression” as “horrifying.” “Together, we are unwavering in our determination that Ukraine will triumph and our cherished freedoms will prevail,” Charles said in his remarks two weeks ago. But this wasn’t the first time the British monarch speaks out against Russia’s war in Ukraine; he has done so several times in the past.

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