{"id":189492,"date":"2025-06-16T17:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/189492\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T17:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:12:08","slug":"i-knew-harry-as-a-boy-and-he-looks-like-hes-having-second-thoughts-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/189492\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I knew Harry as a boy and he looks like he&#8217;s having second thoughts&#8217; | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Royal photographer Arthur Edwards has said that <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Prince Harry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a> looks to be having &#8220;second thoughts&#8221; after his recent treatment of King Charles. The 40-year-old is currently estranged from his father after admitting during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/bbc\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a> inteview last month that the King, 76, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2068866\/prince-harry-fathers-day-king-charles-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is no longer speaking to him<\/a>. Harry <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2054242\/Prince-harry-royal-family-bbc-interview-three-errors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">carried out the bombshell interview with the BBC<\/a> after his appeal against a decision to downgrade his UK security failed.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/royals\/35395014\/harry-regrets-king-treatment-expert\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Sun<\/a>\u2019s Royal Exclusive show about his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/bbc\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a> interview in May, Mr Edwards said: &#8220;He looked so sad in that, and so really down and not upbeat like he was normally. I feel somehow he&#8217;s having probably second thoughts. Maybe this is not such a great idea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Agreeing with Arthur, News.com.au&#8217;s royal correspondent Bronte Coy shared: \u201cI thought the same. That was only a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For better or worse, Meghan&#8217;s forging ahead with her path. But seeing Harry look exactly as you say, looking so defeated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But from that interview and the things he was saying, it just appears he seems quite stuck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the inteview, released on Princess Charlotte&#8217;s birthday, Harry revealed: &#8220;[King Charles] won&#8217;t speak to me because of this security stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harry is also not on speaking terms with his brother <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-william\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince William<\/a>, with the senior royal said to have been &#8220;blindsided&#8221; by his younger brother&#8217;s decision to step down from royal duties in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Duke of Sussex now resides in California with his wife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/meghan-markle\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan Markle<\/a> and their children, Archie, 6, and Lilibet, 4.<\/p>\n<p>Harry has made various trips to the UK since stepping back from duties, although Meghan has not visited Britain since 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Royal photographer Arthur Edwards has said that Prince Harry looks to be having &#8220;second thoughts&#8221; after his recent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,447,35473,16033,12473,2655,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-189492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-prince-harry","13":"tag-prince-harry-bbc","14":"tag-prince-harry-interview","15":"tag-prince-harry-latest","16":"tag-prince-harry-news","17":"tag-royal-families","18":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114694163205279961","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189492","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=189492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}