Prince Harry 'made it DIFFICULT' to meet King Charles: 'Made DEMANDS about who could be in the room'

[Music] well Prince Harry touchdown in London today for the ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the Invictus games that's tomorrow but the runaway Royal won't be able to find any time for his cancer stricken father despite speaking at an event only three miles away from clarence's house where Charles is staying now Harry spokesman appeared to put the blame on the king though saying in response to the many inquiries and continued speculation on whether or not the Duke will meet his father while in the UK this week it unfortunately will not be possible due to his Majesty's full program the Duke of course is understanding of his father's diary commitments and I think this is the important bit various other priorities and hopes to see him soon well I'm joined out by the editor at large that M on Sunday Charlotte griffi Charlotte if if Harry really wanted to see his own cancer stricken father surely he'd make it happen he would he would but you know equally King Charles is the king of England he could see Harry at any point and clear his schedule if he if he wants to so I think on the surface Harry's right to portray this as a snub and it is a bit of a snub but I think what you're rightly alluding to is how easy did Harry make it uh you know for his father so you know we know that he he didn't come over with the kids I mean that would be an easy win it would be almost impossible for Charles to resist the temptation to see his grandchildren and you know there is there's some talk that behind the scenes as got a lot of negotiating going on I know that the palace um for us in the newspaper Biz um were painting a very confused picture and I think there's a lot of two and Thro going on and I think the reason for that was because Harry made certain demands about who could be in the room and who couldn't be in the room that's a speculation anyway so although on the surface it looks like a snub I think Harry made it very difficult for his father would you mind just elaborating slightly on that for us please so so some of Harry's demands here cu cu King Charles has said that uh you know sorry har is saying that King Charles is saying that he's he's got other priorities you know but you you you are of the view that Harry was making it difficult yeah I think I think you're right I think when Harry said various other priorities it's so passag that whole statement to be honest but various other priorities alludes to maybe other forces that were driving Charles's um position on this so maybe I don't know whether William had a thought about how and where this meeting should be conducted or or if it should be conducted at all and we know that Charles likes to Meet Harry with Camila in the room um which isn't always a popular decision and uh you know the other thing is Harry was without his wife as well so uh you know the whole thing was fought with difficulty I think I think it's a shame that Harry had to also come over on his own without his wife it would have made it a lot easier for him if he had someone by his side he maybe felt a little bit alone having a meeting um you know if Charles say had Camila there with with him but um all of this none of this was confirmed last week but what did happen happened last week was the P it was clear really that the palace had been going through some kind of negotiation behind the scenes because they was they were under the impression basically that Harry and Charles would be able to pull off this meeting and then at some point along the line that changed and the the inference is that there were negotiations about who and where and how how this this meeting would take place well the headlines until today were that they were going to meet and from what you're saying really here it it does seem as though the panelists was probably working on that assumtion as well then Harry releases that statement so it could it could conceivably come down to Harry demanding that Camila can't be in the room it could be and I think I think we might find out later this week as this week progresses exactly what went down um but at the moment you know the palace aren't aren't saying anything uh and again this is the whole thing as well the palace can't release a statement like Harry can this is it comes down to the number their entire for relationship is that Harry can release these statements loaded with inuendo and sort of you know various other priorities uh whereas the palace can't they just have to say you know they can steer off the Record or say no comment yeah and he knows that and he knows that his dad's ill and he knows that Kate's ill as well and yet he still comes out with a statement like that saying his dad's various other priorities I mean really emphasizing that notion of being the spare I think there I think so and actually Charles does have another priority so I happen to know that when he's in London he's he he he takes treatment he undergoes cancer treatment pretty much every time and then he does actually genuinely try to clear his schedule um other than the odd meeting today he met the uh the prime minister of Fiji which by the way side note Prince Harry had a very difficult tour to Fiji I don't know if there was some sort of deliberate provocative measures going on there or whether that had anything to do with it but famously um Harry and Megan went to Fiji and Megan had to leave an event after just8 minutes because she became overwhelmed and they they don't look back on that part of their Royal life with a lot of affection they had a difficult time in Fiji but um but the other thing is is that you know when Charles is in London he's having cancer treatment so he isn't socializing a lot and I don't know whether Harry took that into consideration or really understood that or whether he was able to work around it but if I was going through cancer treatment in London I wouldn't want to have a difficult and for stressful meeting because you know C treatment is difficult and fr in it in itself yeah no indeed and as to mean marle not coming if it's because she didn't feel safe then find it hard to believe that she will feel safer in Nigeria which is where we're going to be next seeing her popping up but Charlotte thank you very very much great stuff that Charlotte Griffith there who's the editor at large at the mail on Sunday now

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Length: 5min 42sec (342 seconds)

Published: Tue May 07 2024