Prince William Is Reportedly Offended by What Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Call Kate Middleton liennhi

Aside from Prince Harry's memoir, Spare, and his tell-all interviews with Meghan Markle, Prince William has another major bone to pick with the couple. Sources from the Wales household told The Daily Beast that the future king is reportedly offended that Harry and Markle refer to Middleton as "Kate" instead of Catherine publicly, “even when they were sending her get-well-soon messages after her cancer diagnosis.”

While calling Middleton "Kate" doesn't seem like the biggest deal to non-royals, sources close to the Prince of Wales revealed that Harry and Markle failing to call his wife Catherine in their public statement about her cancer made him bristle with anger. (The statement read, “We wish health and healing for Kate and the family, and hope they are able to do so privately and in peace.”)

“The fact that Harry and Meghan were unable to bring themselves to use her chosen name, even when they were sending her get-well-soon messages after her cancer diagnosis, was noted," a friend of William and Middleton told the outlet. "William takes offense at people calling Catherine ‘Kate,’ because she has asked to be known as Catherine. It’s a fairly simple wish to respect. I’m sure Meghan wouldn’t like it if William started publicly calling her ‘Meghan Markle.’"

The source added, “Of course it’s an utterly trivial thing, but those of us who know William know that it is one of the things that pushes his buttons. Pushing his buttons while he was going through his wife’s cancer seemed an entirely unnecessary and deliberate irritation. I wonder if the private card began, ‘Dear Kate…’"

A second friend of William and Middleton's noted that the improper name calling isn't the crux of their issues, either. “No-one’s saying it’s responsible for all the trouble, but deliberately calling someone by a name they don’t like is just bloody rude," the source said. "If Harry and Meghan were serious about healing their issue, a good first step would be to call her Catherine.”