{"id":162020,"date":"2025-06-06T04:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T04:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/162020\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T04:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T04:29:08","slug":"prince-harry-and-king-charles-at-point-of-no-turning-back-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/162020\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry and King Charles at &#8216;point of no turning back&#8217; | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a> and King Charles are not set to reconcile any time soon as one royal expert believes \u201cthere is no turning back\u201d for the father and son. Since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a> quit royal life in 2020 and moved to America with his <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/meghan-markle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wife Meghan Markle<\/a>, the duke, 40, has not held back from criticising the Firm.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside his wife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/meghan-markle\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan Markle<\/a>, 43, Harry has criticised his royal relatives on a number of occasions, including on their 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/netflix\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netflix<\/a> docuseries Harry and Meghan, and in the duke\u2019s bombshell memoir Spare published in 2023. Despite painting his father as <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2056749\/prince-harry-king-charles-myth-exposed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201ccold\u201d in his memoir,<\/a> it is believed Harry did maintain some form a relationship with the 76-year-old monarch until recently, when Harry\u2019s court appeal against the Home Office reportedly resulted in the King not speaking to his youngest son.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/bbc\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a> interview last month after <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2049386\/prince-harry-uk-security-latest-court-appeal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">losing his court appeal regarding his downgraded UK security rights<\/a>, Harry <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2050029\/prince-harry-reason-king-charles-wont-speak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed his father \u201cwon\u2019t speak\u201d<\/a> to him, with a royal expert now believing that this lack of contact could be the case for a long time to come.<\/p>\n<p>British royal expert Hilary Fordwich has now told <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/special\/20th-anniversary\/fox-news-digital\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News Digital<\/a>: &#8220;There is no turning back. King Charles remains tender towards his son but can\u2019t risk communication.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-william\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince William<\/a> now has absolutely no interest in mending fences. Those close to the king say he [shouldn\u2019t] make peace with Harry in a way that would burden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-william\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince William<\/a>\u2019s future reign. The animosity is so deep that William has shut the door on Harry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharles is not willing to go against his heir\u2019s wishes. Everything comes down to trust and the lack of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the last few years, the King has never addressed any of the claims of rifts between himself and his youngest son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry and King Charles are not set to reconcile any time soon as one royal expert believes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[1760,68202,54799,14426,42436,5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-162020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-king-charles","9":"tag-king-charles-harry-reunion","10":"tag-king-charles-harry-rift","11":"tag-king-charles-prince-harry","12":"tag-king-charles-royal-family","13":"tag-royal","14":"tag-royal-families","15":"tag-royal-family","16":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114634539966415022","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}