There are no more gossips about it Prince Harry and about the failure to meet his father Charles III: Almost a month after the Duke of Sussex’s last visit to London, the British press is still trying to understand who didn’t want to see the other: Was it Harry who snubbed his father or was it the king who didn’t want to hear about his son?
King Charles did not want to meet Harry because “the reunion with his son, now that he is ill, would have stressed him too much”
According to a royal biographer, the sovereign needs tranquility to defeat the cancer he has been fighting for months. While appointments with the second child are a certain source of “upset and irritation”
The second hypothesis was, immediately, the most logical: convenient to see the king and pretend that his brother William and his stepmother Camilla do not exist, but it would also seem that Charles did not want to see his second son to avoid unnecessary stress in a delicate moment like that of illness. A theory, which, however, holds little water given that the day after the cancer announcement Harry rushed to London and had a more than cordial meeting with his father at Clarence House.
King Charles, who “could easily have found time to meet Harry”
The prince, in London for the tenth anniversary of the Invictus Games, is said to have tried to organize a meeting with the king in the last month, who however seems to have declined due to too many commitments. “You’re never too busy to see your son,” says biographer Hugo Vickers
The British press is now relaunching with a new question, which if you look closely is the oldest ever, the one that it’s about safety. Although Charles III had it invited to stay in a royal residence in the occasion of his last visit to London, Harry declined because no protection would have been provided for him by the British police and – reports the Telegraph – he would find himself in a «visible place with public entry and exit points». It is not clear where, but the most credible hypotheses lead to St. James’s Palace, where several royals have private apartments in which they stay when they are in London. The building, close to Clarence House, would also have allowed father and son to see each other if they wanted. But what is missing here is the will, certainly not the opportunities. Furthermore, all royal palaces are monitored 24 hours a day upon entry and exit, unlike any hotel: it doesn’t take much to unmask Harry’s motives.
Always staying at the Telegraph, the prince would still be “devastated” by the fact that he no longer has the right to protection from the British police, a right that has been revoked since he is no longer a senior royal, but which he has not digested at all, so much so that he has undertaken a legal battle with the Ministry of the Interior. Today he must notify the police 28 days before his arrival in the United Kingdom if he wants to ask for security measures: the granting of what until 2020 was a due privilege is evaluated on a case-by-case basis by Ravec, the Committee that oversees the protection of royals and of public figures. Harry’s claim is unjustified. The police, paid for by taxpayers, cannot protect a person who does not work for the royal family and who, in fact, is a private citizen. A choice, which had consequences and continues to have them.
