More than one year into King Charles III’s cancer treatment, royal insiders are speculating what could come next for the British monarch.
In a new report, The Telegraph said that due to Charles’s declining health, “it appears unlikely he will ever move from Clarence House to Buckingham Palace after the restoration is completed in three years’ time.”
Clarence House has been Charles and wife Queen Camilla’s home sine 2003, but Charles not moving to the palace would make him the first monarch since Queen Victoria to not use it as his main residence. Still, Buckingham Palace remains the king’s main office.
The outlet reported that the king’s aides have been keeping his health in mind when it comes to his living situation. Plus, sources have previously claimed that Charles never liked the “big house,” as he calls the palace. “He doesn’t see it as a viable future home or a house that’s fit for purpose in the modern world,” an insider told the U.K. Times in 2022.
Elsewhere in its report, The Telegraph stated that there have been some “exploratory” discussions around the royal residence in regards to Charles’s lack of relationship with son Prince Harry, especially as the monarch grows older. These talks have been about “if or when father and son could ever be reunited,” and one occasion that is being considered is at the Invictus Games in Birmingham—two years from now, in 2027.
As Harper’s Bazaar readers know, Harry has made it clear that he wants to reconcile with his royal family, from whom he’s been estranged since 2020, when he stepped back from his role as a senior royal alongside wife Duchess Meghan.