It has been 18 months since Prince Harry published Preventive, a memoir of his father King Charles III, Older brother Prince William, and stepmother Queen Camilla in a negative way. Although the relationship between Harry and the king was not very good after the book was released, there were still signs this early year that the ice between the two had begun to melt. In FebruaryHarry rushed to his father’s side in London after the king announced his cancer diagnosisbut in my time Can visit the countryNeither Charles nor William met Harry in person.
On Wednesday, Everybody It was reported that father and son have been cut off from communication due to Harry’s ongoing battle over his security arrangements in the UK. “He’s ‘not available at the moment,'” a friend of Harry’s told the magazine. “His calls are not being answered. He’s been trying to reach out about the King’s health, but those calls are also not being answered.”
Since 2022, Harry has been challenging the British government in court over its 2020 decision to strip the prince and his family of publicly funded armed security in the country, after a previous legal effort centred on Harry’s offer to pay for his own armed security failed. in May 2023The prince and his legal team have shifted tactics to focus on the Royal and Public Figures Protection Executive Committee, known by its acronym RAVEC, the body that sets out security measures for the royal family and others in the UK deemed to need closer protection. In June 2024Judgment David Dau The London High Court has ruled that Harry will be allowed to appeal on the grounds that RAVEC failed to adhere to its stated policies when it revoked his automatic protection in February 2020.
In a recent interview for The tabloids are on trial, An ITV documentary about attempts to sue British media companies over their past conduct, Harry speak that he still fears for his wife’s safety, Meghan Markle, and the children Archie And Lilibet, in the UK due to previous threats of violence. “That is one of the reasons why I will not bring my wife back to this country,” he added.
A royal said Everybody that the current tension between Harry and his father is due to a dispute over the monarch’s perceived influence over the process. “Harry is scared and feels the only person who can do something about it is his father,” the source said. Buckingham Palace declined to comment when contacted by Everybody, But a palace insider told the magazine that Harry’s idea that his father could influence his safety was “completely inaccurate”.
Although the monarch is not a member of RAVEC, some of his staff are. The committee includes representatives from the Metropolitan Police, senior government officials and members of the royal family, who meet to make recommendations to the UK Home Secretary. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, her private secretary was Sir Young Edward, is a member of the committee, and in a letter january 2020 for the then cabinet secretary Mark Sedwill, Young noted that the Queen wanted Meghan and Harry to be given security because of “their reputation as born into the Royal Family, their military service, the Duchess’s independent record and the well-documented history of the Sussexes being targeted by extremists”.
The person you talked to Everybody Harry, the friend stressed, welcomed the reconciliation with his father. “At the end of the day,” the friend said, “you can’t reverse the blood. He wasn’t asking his father for a nicer house or nicer cars. He was asking for the reality of the situation. He was taking a risk.”
