{"id":367880,"date":"2025-08-23T18:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T18:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/367880\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T18:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T18:40:12","slug":"prince-harrys-private-memorial-gesture-may-ease-royal-rift-says-former-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/367880\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry’s private memorial gesture may ease royal rift, says former butler"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Prince Harry’s private memorial gesture may ease royal rift, says former butler\u00a0<\/p>\n

Prince Harry’s private tribute to his late grandfather during VJ Day commemorations last week could help bridge his ongoing rift with King Charles III, a former royal butler suggested.<\/p>\n

Grant Harrold, who served at the king’s Highgrove estate from 2004 to 2011, praised Harry’s decision to arrange a wreath-laying ceremony at the National Memorial Arboretum hours after his father’s official commemoration ended.<\/p>\n

“I think the King would’ve appreciated that he was not trying to hijack the occasion,” Harrold told The Mirror, calling the gesture “a very clever tactic” that demonstrated diplomatic awareness.<\/p>\n

On August 15, Harry arranged for a tribute honoring military personnel who served in the Far East to be placed at the Burma Star Memorial, specifically acknowledging Prince Philip’s wartime service in the Pacific campaign.<\/p>\n

The duke instructed that the wreath and accompanying letter be laid only after Charles and Queen Camilla had departed their official ceremony in Staffordshire.<\/p>\n

“My late grandfather, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, served in the Pacific campaign,” Harry wrote in his tribute.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He spoke with quiet humility about those years, but I know how deeply he respected all who stood beside him.”<\/p>\n

Harrold suggested the gesture could signal “a behind the scenes truce to move forward” between the estranged father and son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry’s private memorial gesture may ease royal rift, says former butler\u00a0 Prince Harry’s private tribute to his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-367880","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-royal-families","13":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115079546489850977","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367880","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=367880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}