Last week, Prince Harry spent two days in a London courtroom as a continuation of his long-running battle for enhanced safety when he visits the UK. Though Harry visited his start nation for the listening to, he didn’t see his father, King Charles III, who was on a royal tour of Italy along with his spouse, Queen Camilla. According to sources who spoke to People, the connection between Harry and the king remains to be strained, and the pair haven’t seen each other since Harry’s fast journey to the UK in February 2024, quickly after the king introduced his most cancers analysis. “They are distant,” one supply informed the journal.
Though the connection between Harry and his father has been strained because the prince and his spouse, Meghan Markle, left their royal roles in early 2020, the connection has been on ice since January 2023, when Harry revealed his memoir Spare, which was full of intimate particulars about his household. A supply near the palace informed People that there hasn’t been a lot contact between Harry and the King since. “I don’t think there is any rapprochement,” the supply mentioned. “Nothing has changed.”
Right now, Harry’s ongoing authorized battle about safety is among the sticking factors of their relationship. Harry has fought the British authorities about their 2020 determination to strip him of elevated safety for years, and final yr Harry argued that the king’s aides, who’ve roles on the safety committee RAVEC, might need performed a task in that call.
Harry has returned to the UK a number of instances within the final yr, however Meghan and their two youngsters, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet of Sussex, haven’t visited since 2022. After the hearings final week, Harry informed People’s Simon Perry that his household’s security “has always mattered the most.” Harry added that was stunned to be taught of the non-public info that was mentioned within the courtroom final week.
“People would be shocked by what’s being held back,” the prince mentioned, including that his determination to battle again on the matter of his safety was “driven by exposing injustice” and a want to “get under the bonnet and fix” issues.
In his dialog with People, Harry additionally talked about his spouse’s current enterprise successes with the launch of her model As Ever and her new podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder. “I am so happy for my wife and fully support absolutely everything she’s done and continues to do,” the prince mentioned. “I’m incredibly proud.”