{"id":347108,"date":"2025-08-15T17:48:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T17:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/347108\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T17:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T17:48:18","slug":"prince-harry-dodged-question-surrounding-missing-prince-william-and-king-charles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/347108\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry dodged question surrounding &#8216;missing&#8217; Prince William and King Charles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755280097_94_image\" style=\"display:none\" alt=\"https:\/\/img.particlenews.com\/image.php?url=3z8mlx_13ofouIn00\" width=\"590\" height=\"350\"\/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/express-u-s--316349130\/latest\/prince-harry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prince Harry&#8217;s<\/a> bond with his father and elder brother has remained chilly since before he revealed his choice to move to North America alongside his spouse, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/express-u-s--316349130\/latest\/meghan-markle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meghan Markle.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Duke of Sussex had a fleeting encounter with Prince Charles during a swift trip to the UK in 2022, but the meeting was described as short.<\/p>\n<p>And when questioned about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/180229\/prince-harry-william-royal-feud\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">whether he longed for his father and Prince William<\/a>, Prince Harry conspicuously avoided giving a direct response.<\/p>\n<p>NBC Today presenter Hoda Kotb inquired: &#8220;Do you miss your brother or your dad?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Duke responded: &#8220;For me, at the moment, I&#8217;m here focused on these guys and their families and giving everything that I can, 120 percent to them, to ensure they have the experience of a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755280098_877_image\" alt=\"https:\/\/img.particlenews.com\/image.php?url=3df2vI_13ofouIn00\" width=\"590\" height=\"350\"\/>Prince Harry had previously claimed Charles stopped taking his calls<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s my focus here, and then when I leave here, I get back and my focus is my family, who I miss massively.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The evasion didn&#8217;t go unnoticed by Royal observers, who instantly highlighted that the Duke hadn&#8217;t precisely tackled the host&#8217;s inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>Royal correspondent Chris Ship remarked on Twitter: &#8220;Asked in his @TODAYshow interview if he missed his brother and his dad, Harry completely swerves the question.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DON&#8217;T MISS&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/180140\/cristiano-ronaldo-insane-size-cost-georgina-ring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cristiano Ronaldo fans can&#8217;t get over &#8216;insane&#8217; size and cost of Georgina&#8217;s ring [PICTURES]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/180046\/meghan-markle-miserable-royal-tour-harry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Meghan Markle &#8216;threw cup of tea into the air&#8217; during &#8216;miserable&#8217; tour [INSIGHT]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/180038\/meghan-markle-mocked-prince-william-kate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Meghan Markle&#8217;s brand brutally mocked by Prince William and Kate&#8217;s friends [NEWS]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prince Harry had earlier confessed that his connection with Prince Charles had grown strained after he chose to step back in March 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his conversation with Oprah Winfrey, the Duke of Sussex alleged he had been financially severed following his departure, and Prince Charles had ceased answering his calls.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, the Duke said that before the announcement of his departure was released, he had three conversations with the Queen and two with his father &#8220;before he stopped taking my calls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When questioned about why Prince Charles ceased responding, Prince Harry explained: &#8220;Because at that point, I took matters into my own hands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I needed to do this for my family. This is not a surprise to anybody; it&#8217;s really sad that it got to this point, but I&#8217;ve got to do something for my mental health, for my wife&#8217;s, and for Archie&#8217;s as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Harry reconnected with the Prince of Wales in 2022 during a short visit to the Queen alongside Meghan Markle.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Angela Levin, the Duke&#8217;s biographer, observed that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex showed up &#8220;15 minutes late&#8221; and left the Prince of Wales waiting.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Levin remarked: &#8220;Well, they arrived late for their meeting with Prince Charles, so they had a brief ten minutes together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Duchess of Cornwall was there so that there was no disagreement about who said what.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Charles and she had to go off to the Maundy celebrations, and so they weren&#8217;t there for very long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news, entertainment, sport and lifestyle updates from our dedicated American team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sign up for our newsletters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/newsletter-preference-centre\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry&#8217;s bond with his father and elder brother has remained chilly since before he revealed his choice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[1500,7709,7721,7719,121565,7718,3611,7720,1281,30707,447,123021,7710,519,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-347108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-british-royal-family","10":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","11":"tag-duke-of-sussex","12":"tag-express-u-s","13":"tag-harry","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-meghan","16":"tag-meghan-markle","17":"tag-newsbreak","18":"tag-prince-harry","19":"tag-prince-harry-dodged-question-surrounding-missing-prince-william-and-king-charles","20":"tag-royal-families","21":"tag-royal-family","22":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115034044552172904","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347108","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=347108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}