Prince Harry said on Friday he was “certain” his father King Charles III's cancer. will help unite the English royal family, which has been torn apart by tensions and shocking confessions for several years.
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The prince, who has lived in California with his wife Meghan Markle since 2020, flew to London to visit King Charles in early February, less than 24 hours after it was announced that the monarch was suffering from cancer.
“I jumped on a plane and went to see him as quickly as I could,” Harry told ABC television.
When asked about the possibility of family reconciliation thanks to this new situation, the 39-year-old prince replied: “Yes, I'm sure of that.”
“I love my family. I'm grateful that I was able to get on the plane and see him and spend time with him,” he said.
While he is now focusing on his “own family”, he said he has more trips planned which will take him “around the UK”. “I will see my family as often as possible,” he promised.
His return to London had raised questions and speculation about a possible reconciliation or at least a meeting with his older brother William, with whom relations have been severed since Harry's repeated public attacks against him and the royal family. But the meeting didn't take place.
In his autobiography, The Substitute, Harry is particularly critical of his eldest, whom he describes as angry, and recounts his pain at having been his “shadow, (his) understudy, (his) Plan B” all his life . It also implies that William did not marry his wife Kate for love.
As with his whirlwind visit to mark Charles' coronation in May, Prince Harry came alone, without his wife Meghan and their children Archie and Lilibet.