When it comes to family fall outs the reported rift between Prince Harry, his brother Prince William and his father King Charles is probably the world’s most famous.
But although fuel has been added to the fire in recent days as more details have been revealed about the late Queen’s Elizabeth’s apparent rage at the way the naming Prince Harry and wife Meghan’s daughter Lilibet was handled, a family reunion is not beyond the realms of possibility.
At least that’s the verdict of acclaimed royal author Robert Hardman, whose new book Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story revealed the late Queen was “as angry as I’d ever seen her” after the couple stated she had been “supportive” of the name.
But speaking on Good Morning Britain yesterday, Wednesday, January 17, Mr Hardman said that a reconciliation is possible.
Presenting the show Ed Balls said: “We all hoped that after the death of Her Majesty the Queen the coming together of the brothers in The Mall with Meghan and Kate that maybe there was a chase of reconciliation and then of course we had Harry’s book Spare.
“Standing back on the basis of the hugely well sourced book brilliantly written – what’s your judgement?” Mr Hardman said that “the door is always open.”
He said: “I think certainly The King – it’s a book about The King – he is one of life’s optimists actually. I mean he has a view that hopefully one day this will sort itself out. The door is always open is what I was told very firmly.”
However, Mr Hardman also believes that the publication of Spare makes a reconciliation between Prince Harry and brother Prince William “harder”.
He said: “But inevitably you read something like Spare – it was an extraordinary book – it was this time last year it came out. We’re still talking about it.
“I think that particularly I think hurt William – he guards his privacy very closely.” He added: “Never say never.
Queen Elizabeth II was reportedly very upset over Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s decision to name their daughter Lilibet and reportedly voiced her feelings to royal aides.
Lilibet was a nickname that sweetly stuck from her childhood after she could never pronounce her own name and was fondly used by her father and then Prince Philip.
