Prince Harry didn’t meet along with his brother, Prince William, throughout a roughly 24-hour journey to Britain after Buckingham Palace introduced that their father had cancer, a sign that relations between the siblings stay tense.
Harry, 39, flew to London on Tuesday and visited his father, King Charles III, for a short while, however didn’t meet with William, 41, the inheritor to the throne, in keeping with an individual aware of their schedules.
The youthful prince was seen at Heathrow Airport on Wednesday and was anticipated to return to the US quickly, the BBC reported. The king’s eldest son resumed his duties because the Prince of Wales, finishing up an honors ceremony at Windsor Citadel and attending a charity fund-raiser.
It was unknown what Harry and King Charles, 75, mentioned throughout a go to that lasted between 30 and 45 minutes at Clarence Home, the king’s residence in London.
Ashley Hansen, the worldwide press secretary for Prince Harry and his spouse, Meghan, declined to remark in regards to the brothers’ relationship or Harry’s journey to London.
The brothers’ relationship has lengthy been intently watched by the British press, going again to their shared grief over the demise of their mom, Princess Diana, and that scrutiny has heightened since Harry and Meghan moved to California in 2020. The brothers didn’t sit in the identical row at their father’s coronation in Might, a number of months after Harry printed a memoir that aired anecdotes in regards to the intensely personal household’s life.
Harry was direct about his relationship along with his brother in a 2022 Netflix documentary, “Harry & Meghan,” which particulars the couple’s life from after they started relationship to their withdrawal from their royal duties.
Within the documentary, Harry prompt that William’s press workplace planted damaging tales about Meghan, furthering a rift between the siblings.
“The saddest a part of it,” Harry stated, “was this wedge created between myself and my brother in order that he’s now on the establishment facet.”
Mark Landler contributed reporting from London.
