The King may be willing to have more to do with Prince Harry now the embarrassment of his younger son suing his own government is over.
It has been the biggest block to father and son speaking and, unless he applies for permission to appeal to the Supreme Court, it now looks difficult to see where else the Duke of Sussex can take his legal argument over his security arrangements.
Harry described his court defeat as a “good old-fashioned Establishment stitch-up” but told the BBC today that he wanted reconciliation with his family. “There’s no point in continuing to fight any more,” he said.
He complained his father was refusing to speak to him “because of this security stuff” and in a deeply personal message that will not go down well with palace officials who have been busily painting a positive picture of the monarch’s recovery from cancer treatment, said he did not know how long the King had left to live.
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That will be upsetting for the King on all sorts of levels but whether it persuades him to change course remains to be seen. Harry and Meghan’s rift with William and Kate goes even deeper and there still seems little chance of reconciliation there.
Even if father and younger son do start speaking again, the likelihood of Charles III seeing his two grandchildren, Prince Archie, who will be six on 6 May, and three-year-old Princess Lilibet in the UK any time soon are now even slimmer following the Court of Appeal judgment.
Harry, 40, simply does not believe it is safe for his family to return to Britain because it has been shown he is a target for Al Qaeda and other Islamic extremists after fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan and is in the sights of far right groups for marrying a woman of mixed race heritage. “I can’t see a world in which I would bring my wife and children back to the UK at this point,” he said.
King Charles saw Archie fairly regularly when he was young but he has met Lilibet only once, when she and the rest of the Sussexes came over for Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee in June 2022. The family spoke on Harry’s 40th birthday last September but it is not thought there has been any contact since.
In spite of the ruling, Harry is expected to continue to return to Britain to support his charity patronages, accompanied by a US-based protection team that has to operate without weapons here or access to national intelligence.
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It is a sad state of affairs that friends of the family lament. Harry has complained that nobody in the family picks up the phone to him any longer and when his father suffered a bad reaction to his cancer treatment on 27 March, he only found out about it from media reports.
He has undoubtedly upset his family, levelling accusations they believe are untrue, including his claim that the Royal Household leant on the police and government to end his family’s guaranteed protection in an effort to force them to stay in Britain.
Friends point out that RAVEC, the Royal and VIP Executive Committee, which is delegated by the Home Office to decide on levels of police protection, only has three royal appointees on a 10-strong committee and the courts have agreed that it followed the correct procedure in deciding on the Sussexes’ security.
Harry in turn has pointed to the estimated £10 million a year that it costs the taxpayer to protect eight former prime ministers, including Liz Truss, who was only in the job for 50 days. But the Court of Appeal has given him little room to manoeuvre.
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