Prince Harry has issued a deeply personal and emotional plea for reconciliation with his family, lamenting that his father, King Charles III, “won’t speak to me” and reflecting on the monarch’s ongoing health battle.
Speaking to the BBC shortly after a legal defeat in his ongoing battle for police protection in the United Kingdom, the Duke of Sussex said, “"Of course some members of my family will never forgive me for writing a book, of course they will never forgive me for lots of things, but I would love reconcilation with my family. There's no point in continuing to fight anymore.Life is precious. I don’t know how much longer my father has.”
Harry, 40, lost his appeal on May 2 against a Home Office decision to strip him of publicly funded security following his and Meghan’s departure from royal duties in 2020. The court upheld that the ruling was “understandable and perhaps predictable,” given the changing nature of the Duke’s visits and the UK’s approach to risk.
Yet Harry remains convinced the matter could be resolved within the family, saying, “There is a lot of control and ability in my father’s hands… Ultimately, this whole thing could be resolved through him. Not necessarily by intervening, but by stepping aside, allowing the experts to do what is necessary.”
The Palace has consistently refuted suggestions that the King has the authority to reinstate Harry’s police protection. Even so, the issue has become a bitter point of contention. According to sources, though father and son had a positive meeting in February 2024 following Charles’s cancer diagnosis, communication has since dried up. “His calls go unanswered,” a friend of Harry's said last year. “He gets ‘unavailable right now’.”
After attending a two-day appeal hearing in London in April, Harry told *People* he felt “exhausted and overwhelmed,” adding that his “worst fears have been confirmed by the whole legal disclosure in this case — and that’s really sad.”
In a formal statement after the court ruling, Harry revealed plans to write to the Home Secretary requesting a review of the RAVEC process, saying, “This legal action has been a last resort, but one that has uncovered shocking truths, starting with the fact that the Royal Household are key decision-makers on RAVEC and my sole representation for matters regarding my safety.”
The Duke also addressed the broader implications for his young family. “I can’t see a world where I would bring Meghan and the kids back to the U.K. given the security concerns,” he said. “I love my country. I always have done — despite what some people in that country have done. I miss the U.K… I think that it’s really quite sad that I won’t be able to show my children my homeland.”
He concluded with a pointed warning: “If anything was to happen to me, my wife, or my father’s grandchildren, look where the responsibility lies.”
The statement, dated 2025, comes on letterhead with a stylized H below a crown.
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