Prince Harry has been in touch with his father Prince Charles and his older brother, Prince William, for the first time since his and Meghan’s groundbreaking interview with Oprah Winfrey earlier in the month, “CBS This Morning” co-host Gayle King said Tuesday.
Those conversations were not productive, the couple told King over the weekend.
However, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex said they were glad they had begun a dialogue with the royal family and that they want the family to heal.
King said the family has yet to reach out to Meghan following the two-hour interview.
Harry had told Winfrey that he had a difficult relationship with his father following his and Meghan’s decision to step back from their roles as senior royals early in 2020.
“When we were in Canada, I had three conversations with my grandmother and two conversations with my father,” he said, adding “before he stopped taking my calls.”
While the Duke said he has since resumed speaking to his father, he felt “let down” by him given Charles’ own past experience with Harry’s late mother, Princess Diana, and her relationship with the U.K. tabloids.
The Prince was reportedly “upset” and “cut up” to hear what his younger son said, and ignored a reporter’s question about it the day after the interview aired in Britain.
As for Prince William, who is second in line to the throne, Harry categorized their current relationship as “space.”
Through the interview, Meghan also challenged a previous allegation that William’s wife,…
