Talking about Royals. Harry is going to take a beating as he has to pay court costs, plus his lawyers. Now he wants to reconcile, but his father King William won't talk to him and his brother William hates even more since the book and the Oprah Winfrey interview.
LONDON — After losing a legal battle over his lack of publicly funded security, Prince Harry on Friday expressed a desire to rebuild his strained relationship with the Royal Family.
“I would love reconciliation with my family. ... There’s no point in continuing to fight people,” Harry told the BBC. “It would be nice to have that reconciliation part now. If they don’t want that, that’s entirely up to them.”
Harry's interview with the BBC came after he lost his appeal against the U.K. government’s decision to axe his publicly funded security detail, an issue that he says has driven a wedge between him and his father.
“He won’t speak to me because of this security stuff,” Harry said, adding that he didn’t know how long his father had left to live. King Charles III, from whom Harry says he is currently cut off, was diagnosed with cancer last year.
And without security, Harry said, “I can’t see a world in which I would bring my wife and children back to the U.K. at this point.”
Charles' second son’s protection was downgraded in February 2020 when he stepped down as a full-time member of the royal family and moved to the United States with his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex. That meant the British state provided security on a case-by-case basis.
Harry, who is the fifth in line to the throne, had argued that the body responsible for protecting the Royal Family was not following its own rules, that all high-profile members of the Royal Family, like the king and his brother Prince William, have around-the-clock protection.
The Royal and VIP Executive Committee, known as Ravec, made the decision on his security arrangements after he and Meghan stepped down from being a working member of the Royal Family in 2020. Currently, his security in the U.K. is decided on a case-by-case basis, the same way as the country’s other high-profile visitors.
After the ruling Friday, a spokesperson from Buckingham Palace said “All of these issues have been examined repeatedly and meticulously by the courts, with the same conclusion reached on each occasion.”
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LONDON — After losing a legal battle over his lack of publicly funded security, Prince Harry on Friday expressed a desire to rebuild his strained relationship with the Royal Family.
“I would love reconciliation with my family. ... There’s no point in continuing to fight people,” Harry told the BBC. “It would be nice to have that reconciliation part now. If they don’t want that, that’s entirely up to them.”
Harry's interview with the BBC came after he lost his appeal against the U.K. government’s decision to axe his publicly funded security detail, an issue that he says has driven a wedge between him and his father.
“He won’t speak to me because of this security stuff,” Harry said, adding that he didn’t know how long his father had left to live. King Charles III, from whom Harry says he is currently cut off, was diagnosed with cancer last year.
And without security, Harry said, “I can’t see a world in which I would bring my wife and children back to the U.K. at this point.”
Charles' second son’s protection was downgraded in February 2020 when he stepped down as a full-time member of the royal family and moved to the United States with his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex. That meant the British state provided security on a case-by-case basis.
Harry, who is the fifth in line to the throne, had argued that the body responsible for protecting the Royal Family was not following its own rules, that all high-profile members of the Royal Family, like the king and his brother Prince William, have around-the-clock protection.
The Royal and VIP Executive Committee, known as Ravec, made the decision on his security arrangements after he and Meghan stepped down from being a working member of the Royal Family in 2020. Currently, his security in the U.K. is decided on a case-by-case basis, the same way as the country’s other high-profile visitors.
After the ruling Friday, a spokesperson from Buckingham Palace said “All of these issues have been examined repeatedly and meticulously by the courts, with the same conclusion reached on each occasion.”
Prince Harry says he's ready to reconnect with family, but King Charles 'won't speak to me'
His comments about reconciling with the Royal Family came after a court rejected his attempt to have his publicly funded security restored.
