Prince Harry can still mend his relationship with Prince William and King Charles, but he must initiate the reconciliation process, a royal expert has suggested.
The Duke of Sussex’s bond with his brother and father became strained following numerous allegations made against his family in his explosive memoir Spare, as well as several critical interviews and a Netflix docuseries that scrutinized his family.
After their departure from the Royal Family in 2020, known as Megxit, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle spoke candidly about their experiences while retaining their titles under the agreement that they would not exploit them for commercial purposes.
A former Royal staff member has now asserted that Harry could potentially sway “William round” by offering a sincere and significant apology to his estranged family members.
Dickie Arbiter, an ex-Buckingham Palace press spokesman, believes that with the appropriate approach, Prince Harry could reconcile with his family, but he must be the one to take the initial step on this challenging path.
Speaking to The Sun, Arbiter emphasized, “You can’t just brush everything under the carpet. The Oprah interview. The six hours of Netflix slagging off the Royal Family. The book Spare. You can’t just sweep that under the carpet.
“There’s got to be an apology. The King is sort of commander in chief of the armed services, and it would be a good fit and a good show for him to appear, but it’s a very difficult one. He’s been placed in a dilemma as to how to cope with this.
“I think we have to wait and see how this moves on as to whether there is an apology. He’s got to clear a lot of bad air to get them there, because William really doesn’t want to have anything to do with him.
“As a parent is slightly different. He loves his son, but he’s very hurt by what his son has done, and there doesn’t seem to be any move of rapprochement. He made that silly comment a few weeks ago that he doesn’t know how long his father has got.
“I mean, you don’t say things like that in public, so he’s got a lot of ground to makeup. The ground is with a capital ‘a’ apology, and you’ve got to mean it.”
This comes in the wake of the Duke’s BBC interview following the Supreme Court decision that denied his request for taxpayer-funded security.
He labeled the ruling a “stitch up” while discussing the King’s health and voicing his wish for reconciliation, saying, “I would love reconciliation with my family. There’s no point continuing to fight any more, life is precious.”