Of course he takes after Diana. The Spencer ego doesn't get outbreeded very easily, and don't forget that Diana was a borderline personality. (Borderline personality = emotional terrorist.)
‘He has proved no Sweet William when roused,’ writes Lacey. ‘In the years after her 2005 marriage to Prince Charles, Camilla recounted to members of her own family and close friends her surprise at discovering this unexpected side to Prince Charming – "the boy’s got a temper!" ‘Charles’s wife was horrified at the ranting and raving that William unleashed on occasion against her husband in her presence. ‘The rows were shattering, by Camilla’s account in the early days, with William doing the shouting and Charles submitting meekly on the receiving end. As she described it, William held nothing back.’ It was a wrath, suggests Lacey, commensurate with William’s sense of himself as future King. Today, it is largely hidden, but younger brother Harry has his own views on William’s anger. Writing in his memoir, Spare, Harry claims that in one 2019 row at Nottingham Cottage in the grounds of Kensington Palace, William had ‘grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor.’ A dog bowl was apparently broken in the fracas. (Prince William has never given his version of events.) According to Lacey, the anger had been apparent from early on, notably when his mother, Diana, had appeared in a 1995 Panorama interview with the now disgraced Martin Bashir. To the profound embarrassment of William, then studying at Eton College, his mother had appeared on national television discussing the breakdown of her marriage to his father and her affair with James Hewitt. According to a friend, the ‘healer’ Simone Simmons, Diana soon felt the full force. ‘’’All hell broke loose,” Diana told Simmons. ‘…He started shouting and crying and when she tried to put her arms around him, he shoved her away. ‘Diana was getting a taste of how William’s intensity could lead to his notorious rages. The following day, he apologised to his mother for his temper with a small bunch of flowers.’
Not a much different experience than what the British Army was subjected to recently after having Kate listed as appearing at The Colonel's Review in June since December 2023. Then all hell broke loose because tickets were on sale, and William wasn't interested in having Kate's public appearance announced as taking place two months after Easter.
