Prince Harry Returns but Won’t Reunite with Charles | Lorraine

now Prince Harry's arrival in the UK he is here making most of the front pages this morning as you would expect he's revealed that he won't be seeing his father during the visit blaming the king's fool program of events well Sarah Houston joins me now um It's just sad this isn't it there's his dad he's going through cancer treatment obviously Kate his sister-in-law the same and they're not going to meet even though they're not that far apart yeah I I think sad is exactly the word for this Lorraine because I think we all hoped that the news of the king cancer diagnosis terrible news like that can bring families back together and could this be the moment of reconciliation but it appears not and so Prince Harry flew in on his own yesterday from California landed in London just as the King was heading back to London from Windsor they're both finding themselves in the same city you know normally we've got 5,000 miles in an Atlantic Ocean dividing them that's not the case now but there's still no time for a meeting uh today uh yesterday in fact they were less than three miles apart Harry attending uh an event at The Honorable artillery company in London the king uh there at Buckingham Palace hosting the Fijian prime minister and yet no time in the diary because we're told by Harris spokesman of his his Majesty's full program a diary of commitments and various other priorities I mean that's the bit other priorities that really stand that's a stinger isn't it it really is it's again you know it is very sad is there a sense though that the family the royal family of just kind of closed ranks because you know it's difficult isn't it because with the best will in the world the trust is gone the trust is gone that's absolutely right and I think that's certainly the case between the brothers William and Harry there will be no kind of reunion between them right now particularly while Kate is undergoing her cancer treatment and to highlight just how big that divide is Harry and Megan found out about Kate's cancer at the same time as the rest of us did they didn't know until that statement was put out in the media I thought and believed that there were signs of a Reconciliation certainly the foundations were being laid for it over recent months in November the King's birthday there was a phone call between Archie and lilibet singing happy birthday to their grandfather Harry flew over in February and had that very brief visit with his father the king he'd said every time he's back in the UK he'd like to be able to see his family and you would imagine if the king really wanted to and yes he's got lots on sure he could find time but there's there's a it's clear that they they don't want to and it's it's such a shame but there is that thing of well if we do have a conversation with them is it going to end up on Netflix is it going to end up in another book this is the thing isn't it and it's so blinking sad because Invictus is brilliant and that is why Harry's here it's the best thing he's ever done it's the most incredible thing he's ever done there's a ceremony today at St Paul's C Cathedral to Mark 10 years of the Invictus games we will hear their accounts from people who say that what he has done through the Invictus has saved their lives he has given them a purpose again in their lives he's very much a part of the Invictus family now we saw it yesterday he was then out for dinner with a city financia he's on the Invictus Board of Trustees but not part of his own family and that is what is so tragic here the gulf that really is between and his family and those wounds because of the things that were said in spare and on the Netflix documentary are taking a very long time to he very much so and it's a shame because the two of them him and Megan We Believe are off to Nigeria that's still going ahead um although he does say that he doesn't feel safe in the UK him and his family but they're they're going there presumably he will get proper security when he's there of course you would you would expect that but yeah it's just that you sort of look at that and think that's kind of thing they could be doing they could doing inside the family they would have been made such a difference and it's interesting that Harry's here on his own without Megan um because Megan has been a huge supporter of what he's been doing for the invictor game so why has she not come here she's going directly to Nigeria well okay you can easily fly one of the routes to Nigeria is via London but she's not here perhaps uh because of that argument he has over security that it's not safe for him to bring his family here it might undermine his case against the home office if he brings them back here I never thought about that yeah right but also I don't think Megan wants to come back I don't think she feels welcome in this country last time they were at some pools for the Platinum Jubilee service there were booze outside of the cathedral for them so we end up with Harry cutting a pretty lonely figure actually and that's really really sad to see it is absolutely s thank you very much always good to talk to you thank you very much indeed

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Published: Wed May 08 2024