Prince Harry Says King Charles Won’t Speak To Him
“I don’t know how much longer my father has,” the Duke of Sussex said of Charles, who was diagnosed with cancer last year.
In a vulnerable sit-down interview, Prince Harry told the BBC on Friday that King Charles won’t speak to him, but he’s hopeful for reconciliation while his father is still alive.
“I don’t know how much longer my father has. He won’t speak to me because of this security stuff,” the Duke of Sussex said of the 76-year-old king, who has undergone cancer treatment and was briefly hospitalized in March.
The interview aired the same day Harry lost his appeal challenging the U.K. government’s decision to strip him of his publicly funded security after he stepped back from his royal duties and relocated his family to the United States. Private security guards may not carry guns in the U.K., and Harry previously lost in his bid to pay for police protection himself.
“I can’t see a world in which I would bring my wife and children back to the U.K. at this point,” he said. “The things that they’re going to miss is, well, everything. I love my country … despite what some people in that country have done … and I think that it’s really quite sad that I won’t be able to show my children my homeland.” He added that he’s “devastated” by the court’s decision.
Harry said he believes it’s within his father’s powers to rectify the security situation, which the duke’s lawyers argued in court last month puts his life in danger.
“There is a lot of control and ability in my father’s hands. Ultimately this whole thing could be resolved through him,” Harry stated.
When reached for comment, a palace spokesperson said: “All of these issues have been examined repeatedly and meticulously by the courts, with the same conclusion reached on each occasion.”
In the BBC interview, Harry added he would “love reconciliation with my family” and believes there’s “no point in continuing to fight anymore,” even if some of them will “never forgive” him for his 2023 memoir that aired decades of family drama.
The security issue has “always been the sticking point,” Harry said, adding that he believes the government committee that stripped him of his family’s security detail did so strategically.
“Everybody knew that they were putting us at risk in 2020, and they hoped that me knowing that risk would force us to come back,” he said.
Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, stepped down as senior royals and relocated to California in 2020 with their son, Archie. Their daughter, Lilibet, was born the following year.
