Amid the ongoing rift between Prince Harry and the royal family, the possibility of reconciliation is being constantly debated, and the topic became seemingly more urgent last year with King Charles’ cancer diagnosis. However, after the Duke of Sussex said he doesn’t know “how much longer” his father has, an insider explained why their relationship has worsened to the point that the king isn’t talking to his younger son and Meghan Markle.
Prince Harry recently gave an interview with the BBC in which he said he can’t imagine bringing Meghan Markle and their two children back to the U.K. without the security detail they were stripped of after deciding to step away from their royal duties. Harry revealed King Charles III "won't speak to me because of this security stuff," and a source for Page Six explained:
I genuinely think nobody trusts him and that’s the bottom line. The royal family has major trust issues with him and that’s what’s at the heart of everything. They don’t trust him and Meghan and that’s why they can’t have a relationship … maybe there’s room to forgive, but they won’t forget. Forgiveness and trust are two different things.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle certainly haven’t held back in describing their issues with the royal lifestyle. They gave a bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey when they moved to the United States, and the past few years have seen the release of their docuseries Harry & Meghan (streaming with a Netflix subscription) and some huge allegations in Harry’s tell-all memoir Spare.
While Prince Harry refused to disclose what was said between him and his father when he visited the U.K. after Charles’ cancer reveal, the Duke of Sussex had plenty to say to the BBC about his family’s security. Hugo Vickers, an author and friend of the royal family, thinks Harry only made things worse by doing that interview, saying:
Charles is, of course, right not to trust him. Harry is hopeless in that respect. He shouldn’t have given that interview — but none of the royal family should ever give interviews, it’s always a car crash.
OK, I’m not loving Mr. Vickers’ choice of phrase there, especially when talking about the Sussexes’ security and knowing how scarred Harry is by what happened to his mother, Princess Diana. One has to wonder if he’s right, though. Does every public statement push Charles further away?
The younger son of Charles and Diana has missed six Christmases with the royal family now. And while Prince Harry straight-up said to the BBC that, "I would love reconciliation with my family,” there is reportedly too much concern that anything said to him or Meghan Markle would just end up in Spare 2.
It is a sad situation, because there does seem to be love on both sides of the royal feud, but there’s a very obvious distrust on both sides as well. Prince Harry doesn’t trust that his family’s safety is a concern for the palace, while the royals don’t know if everything they say will end up in another tell-all exposé or Netflix miniseries.
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