Prince Harry makes rare remarks about his father and his hopes for reconciliation
In a rare new interview with BBC News, Prince Harry is speaking candidly about his father, King Charles.
In the Friday, May 2, conversation, Harry told BBC News the he “would love reconciliation with my family. There’s no point in continuing to fight anymore.”
This comes five years after Harry and Meghan Markle, his wife of nearly 7 years, stepped down as senior members of the royal family in 2020, moving from England to Canada and then Markle’s home state of California.
“Life is precious,” Harry continued in his talk with BBC News. “I don’t know how much longer my father has,” Harry said seemingly referring to Charles’ ongoing health issues and cancer diagnosis.
“He won’t speak to me because of this security stuff, but it would be nice to reconcile.”
That “security stuff” includes Harry’s legal fight to restore his U.K. security. Also on May 2, Harry lost his appeal to reinstate his state-funded U.K. security.
While delivering the verdict, Judge Sir Geoffrey Vos said, “The Duke was, in effect, stepping in and out of the cohort of protection provided by RAVEC [the government’s Royal and VIP Executive Committee]. Outside the U.K., he was outside the cohort, but when in the U.K., his security would be considered as appropriate. It was impossible to say that this reasoning was illogical or inappropriate. Indeed, it seemed sensible,” per ABC News.
“Even if there had been a risk analysis from the Risk Management Board, it would very likely have only confirmed the threat, vulnerability and impact levels which the Duke of Sussex had faced when earlier risk analyses were undertaken. But it would have had nothing to say on the critical features of the changed situation, namely the need for protective security on future uncertain visits and the government’s appetite for risk,” the judge said, according to People.
He went on to call the decision “understandable and perhaps predictable.”
In a letter shared on the royal family’s website, Charles talked openly about his cancer, writing, ”Each diagnosis, each new case, will be a daunting and at times frightening experience for those individuals and their loved ones. But as one among those statistics myself, I can vouch for the fact that it can also be an experience that brings into sharp focus the very best of humanity.”
The king was first diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer in February 2024. As NBC News reported, Charles was hospitalized due to side effects from his treatments this March.