Prince Harry and King Charles will not be reconciling anytime soon after the monarch was urged not to answer his son’s messages or calls to keep his “stress levels down”, according to a royal author.
Father and son have seen their relationship deteriorate after the Duke of Sussex’s departure from the Royal Family in 2020 and subsequent attacks against the Firm since then.
But the duke’s dash back home last February, after Charles’s cancer diagnosis announcement, and the brief meeting at Clarence House, sparked hope the two could be on a fresh path to a possible reconciliation.
Following his meeting with his father, Harry declared on ABC that he “loves his family”, adding: “The fact that I was able to get on a plane and go and see him and spend any time with him, I’m grateful for that.”
But by the summer, reports suggesting the King would not answer his son’s calls emerged, which diminished any hopes that things were getting better between the two.
Now royal author Robert Hardman, claimed there is one particular reason that the King is being advised not to respond to his son’s calls and letters.
He claimed to Fox News: “I know people keep saying, ‘Why doesn’t he see Harry when he is in town? Why can’t they patch things up?’
“But right now, there is a sense that we’ve just got to keep the king’s stress levels down. We don’t want him to have extra things to worry about. Let’s get through this…”
He added that this is “probably not the time” for father and son to reconcile”.
Mr Hardman explained: “There is a sense that now is probably not the time.
“If you listen to what Harry has said in his TV series, in his book, in interviews — there’s a lot to unpack. There are a lot of things he wants to get sorted out to go through to process…
“Right now, there’s a sense that it’s not the time. But I’m sure the king would like to normalise things.”
Buckingham Palace and the Duke of Sussex declined to comment.
