Prince William ‘Doesn’t Believe’ Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Will ‘Last’ 6 More Months in the UK

Prince William is taking bets on how long Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will hack it in the U.K. before accepting defeat and skulking back to Montecito, California with their tails between their legs, a source tells Closer.

“William doesn’t believe they’ll even last another six months,” reveals the source. “He’s counting on them giving up and moving back to America as soon as they realize they can’t just bulldoze their way into getting everything they want.”

As Closer previously reported, the Sussex camp has been making a stream of complaints and while King Charles III does not want to send the message that he’s bending to his son’s demands, the 77-year-old monarch is trying to find some sort of compromise.

“It’s very hard for William to watch his father being so soft on them,” the source says of Harry, 42, and Meghan, 45. “He truly cannot understand why Charles is giving them so much latitude after everything that’s happened.”

William, 44, has, however, had to “accept” that “there’s no changing” Charles’ mind, notes the source, “which is incredibly aggravating” for the heir apparent.

Not least because “Harry’s being so blatantly disrespectful by cozying up to Charles Spencer right when he’s putting out this dreadful book,” the source says of Princess Diana‘s brother’s bombshell-filled memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister.

Then, there are the rumors about Harry “going off on his own to do this Diana documentary,” adds the source. “In William’s view, they can’t leave soon enough.”