A sombre Prince Harry has been pictured walking one of the dogs whose food bowl may have been smashed when Prince William allegedly threw his younger brother to the ground in a row over Meghan.

The Duke of Sussex took Pula for some exercise in California just hours before excerpts of his new book Spare were leaked to The Guardian newspaper.

Harry was wrapped up in a hat, rain coat and wellies as he walked the black Labrador alone in a torrential rainstorm by a quiet public beach at noon yesterday.

Within hours of his walk, a leaked copy of his memoir revealed he has gone nuclear on his brother, with claims William assaulted him in his London kitchen after branding Meghan ‘difficult’, ‘rude’ and ‘abrasive’.

Harry got black Labrador Pula, adopted by the Sussexes in 2018, out of the boot of his luxury 4×4 before striding off down a coastal path to the beach.

The royal looked serious and sombre in the car park, shortly before the accusations – which could end his relationship with his older brother – appeared in the Press. Harry, however, still insists he ‘would like to have my brother back’ despite his memoir and TV attacks.

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The Duke of Sussex has denied breaching the privacy of his brother as he described a stand-up row that ended with the Prince of Wales grabbing him by the collar and throwing him to the floor, shattering a dog bowl with his back. William then allegedly declared: ‘I didn’t attack you, Harold’.

Prince Harry claims he was attacked by his brother who called Meghan ‘rude’ and ‘difficult’

In an extraordinary excerpt from his upcoming book, Harry recalls a ‘physical attack’ which allegedly left him with visible injuries, including ‘scrapes and bruises’.

He claimed the row broke out in the kitchen of his London home, Nottingham Cottage, in the grounds of Kensington Palace in 2019.

William is said to have branded Meghan ‘difficult’, ‘rude’ and ‘abrasive’ and insisted he was trying to ‘help’ his younger brother.

Harry accused his brother of ‘parroting the Press narrative’ about his US wife before a screaming match ensued, the book claims.

Harry claims he gave the Prince of Wales a glass of water and said: ‘Willy, I can’t speak to you when you’re like this’.

Describing what happened next, Harry claims: ‘He set down the water, called me another name, then came at me. It all happened so fast. So very fast. He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor. I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out’.

The boot of his car was protected because of the bad weather. The prince then grabbed a ball to throw to his pet on the sand

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Harry claims that William had then urged him to fight back, saying that is what would happen when they scrapped as children.

But the Duke of Sussex claims he refused, claiming that William left and then returned ‘looking regretful, and apologised’.

William then ‘turned and called back: ‘You don’t need to tell Meg about this’.’

Harry claims he said: ‘You mean that you attacked me?’, to which William replied: ‘I didn’t attack you, Harold’.

The Duke of Sussex says that the first person he spoke to about it was his therapist, on the phone.

But he claims Meghan would see the ‘scrapes and bruises’ on his back from the dog bowl.

He claims his wife ‘wasn’t that surprised, and wasn’t all that angry. She was terribly sad’.

The extract has been published by the Guardian. It is not known how the newspaper obtained an early copy of the book, given that the publisher Penguin Random House has gone to great lengths to prevent leaks.

The Sun reported, meanwhile, that the book accidentally went on sale early in Spain. The Spanish version En La Sombra, which translates as ‘In the Shadow’, shows that Harry has dedicated his memoir ‘Para Meg, Archie y Lili… y, for supuesto, mi madre’ – ‘For Meg, Archie and Lili… and, of course, my mother’.