Prince William says Harry is 'poorly' and 'has been feeling under the weather' - but is it his estranged brother he's talking about?

 The Prince of Wales could be heard saying 'Harry has been poorly' as he visited a farm on his Duchy of Cornwall estate yesterday.

However, FEMAIL understands the royal, 42, was not talking about his brother, the Duke of Sussex, as he made the remark while chatting to a man on Tuesday.

William strolled alongside a gentleman, Edward Harley, Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire, and as both entered Lower Blakemere Farm they had a conversation.

'Harry's better now... he's been poorly,' the father-of-three said, in video footage from the outing.

'Harry has?' the other man replied. 

The Prince answered: 'Yes he's been under the weather.'

The pair then wrapped up their chat as they were introduced to farmers during the engagement. 

William and Harry have had publicly frosty relations in recent years, after the Duke and his wife Meghan Markle left for sunny Montecito in 2018. 

In his bombshell memoir Spare, Harry claimed his brother branded the Duchess of Sussex 'difficult', 'rude' and 'abrasive', and even accused him of pushing him into a dog bowl.

In August 2024, the siblings were seen together for the first time in two years after attending the funeral for their uncle Robert Fellowes, despite an ongoing rift.

The last time the duo were in the same room as one another was for the King's Coronation - more than a year ago. However, witnesses said they didn't see the pair speak.

Despite this, just over a year after Spare was released, Harry reportedly visited King Charles for a 'brief meeting' in February 2024, following the revelation of his cancer diagnosis.

Although Charles is understood to have been left wounded by his son's behaviour in recent years, he has always privately insisted he will keep the door open for him to at least speak.

The youngest brother also reached out to William after his wife Kate Middleton's shock cancer diagnosis last year.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were understood to have made contact with the Prince and Princess of Wales 'privately'. 

Yesterday, William appeared in high spirits as he visited a Hereford farm to learn about its journey to becoming net zero.

The Prince of Wales travelled to Lower Blakemere Farm, which is located on his Duchy of Cornwall estate.

The 630-acre farm was founded by couple Adrian and Valli, who began nurturing land that was part of the Guys Hospital Estate in the 1980s.

When the couple retired, married couple Phil and Heather took over the day-to-day running of the farm, which also employs their son Monty.

Today, the Prince of Wales - who is passionate about environmental causes - is learning about the family's regenerative farming practices as part of their journey to net zero. 

For the outing, the Prince cut a casual figure in a green waterproof and tweed baker boy hat.

The royal father-of-three wore a light blue shirt and a pair of practical navy trousers. 

Moments after arriving, William viewed a brand-new grain store and a variety of regenerative farming equipment, including a large seed drill in operation. 

After this, William accompanied the farming family on a tour to see their composting projects.

Today's engagement is part of a greater environmental cause the Prince of Wales is known to feel deeply about.

Prince William founded The Earthshot Prize in 2020 - having been inspired by John F Kennedy's Moonshot initiative that united millions of people around the common goal of putting put a man on the moon. 

Each year, the global campaign selects 15 finalists to take part in a Fellowship Programme and awards five programmes with £1m to scale up their groundbreaking projects. 

Since it was founded in 2020, The Earthshot Prize has given more than £20m away in prize money for environmental causes and been the catalyst for over £86m in direct support for 60 Prize Winners and Finalists.

On top of this, Earthshot alumni from 2021-2023 have reduced, avoided, or captured 420,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions—equivalent to taking around 100,000 cars off the road for one year—and protected and restored 170,000 square kilometres of land and ocean, an area the size of Ireland and Iceland combined.