Prince Harry latest: Reaction to Duke of Sussex’s interview as he says King Charles won’t speak to him and other royals may ‘never forgive him’

The Duke of Sussex should not be commenting on King Charles’ health, former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond has said.

Bond hit out at Prince Harry’s BBC interview this morning on GB News, suggesting he crossed a line by saying he ‘didn’t know how long his father had left to live’.

‘If he’s not speaking to his father and hasn’t for some time, he’s probably not in a position to know a great deal more than we do,’ she said.

Bond added that Harry shouldn’t ‘be speculating’ and that Charles has ‘told us as much as he wants to’.

Charles and Harry are pictured together at the Natural History Museum in London in April 2019.

Prince Harry has claimed he would love to be reconciled with his family five years after he stepped down as a working royal and his relationship with his family has deteriorated to the point of no communication.

Here is a timeline charting the some of the family’s biggest challenges since Megxit.

• January – Harry and Meghan announce they are to step down as working royals.
• June – The couple moves to Meghan’s native California.

• March – Harry and Meghan are interviewed by Oprah Winfrey on CBS. Meghan says a member of the royal family had made a racist comment and she had been pushed to the point of considering suicide, while Harry reveals King Charles no longer takes his calls.
• The late Queen Elizabeth issues a statement in response. ‘The issues raised, particularly that of race, are concerning. While some recollections may vary, they are taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately,’ the statement says.
• June – the couple’s second child, a daughter, Lilibet, is born. Lilibet is a family nickname for Elizabeth.

• August – Harry files a lawsuit against Britain’s Home Office and the Metropolitan Police over his security arrangements in the UK since he stepped down as a working royal.
• September – While Harry and Meghan were in London on a visit, Queen Elizabeth dies. They stay in Britain for her funeral.

• January – Harry publishes his memoir Spare, detailing his relationship with his family.
• Among the most notable revelations, Harry says his brother William, now heir to the British throne, knocked him to the floor during a 2019 argument at his London home over Meghan. William called Meghan ‘difficult,’ ‘rude’ and ‘abrasive,’ Harry writes.
• He also says he and Prince William had asked their father not to marry Camilla Parker-Bowles, who is now Britain’s queen.
• May – Harry attends his father’s coronation without Meghan. He does not sit with other senior royals.

• February – Buckingham Palace announces King Charles has been diagnosed with a form of cancer and will postpone public engagements to undergo treatment.
• Harry is photographed arriving at his father’s London residence for a brief meeting.
• March – Kate says she is undergoing preventative chemotherapy.

• April – At an appeal over the changes to his police protection, Harry’s lawyer warns his ‘life is at stake.’
• May 2 – Harry loses his legal challenge over his security arrangements.
• Later that same day, he says he wants reconciliation with the British royal family, explaining that his father King Charles no longer speaks to him due to the security row, and adding he does not know how long the monarch has left to live.

Prince Harry said he had ‘uncovered shocking truths’ as he took a blistering swipe against those responsible for downgrading his security status just hours after losing his high-profile court battle to reinstate police protection when in the UK.

Harry appeared to take aim at his father, King Charles III and said his ‘jaw dropped’ when he discovered the Royal Household sat on the ‘secretive’ committee.

He insinuated that more could have been done by the monarch, as well as the King’s private secretary Sir Clive Alderton, who had a position on Ravec.

He bolstered that claim just hours later by issuing a statement again taking aim at Ravec’s decision, which he described as ‘a reckless action’ that ‘knowingly put me and my family in harm’s way.’

Prince Harry chillingly insinuated his downgraded security status could leave him and his family to suffer the same fate as the late Princess Diana, who died in a fatal car crash in Paris in 1997.

Speaking about his fears for himself, wife Meghan and their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, he declared: ‘I don’t want history to repeat itself. Through the [court] process, I have discovered that some people want history to repeat itself.’

Harry yesterday raged that ‘the other side’ in the court case had ‘won in keeping me unsafe’, as England’s second most senior judge slapped down his Appeal Court bid to reinstate his police bodyguards when in the UK.

He added: ‘I’m sure that some people out there, probably most likely the people that wish me harm, consider this a huge win.’

The late Queen Elizabeth would be ‘horrified’ by Prince Harry’s BBC interview, a royal insider has claimed today.

The source told ITV today that the Duke’s ‘beloved grandmother’ would have been ‘truly horrified’, especially about his comments about King Charles’ health.

Another insider added: ‘The remarks about his illness were in particularly poor taste and of course suggest something entirely contrary to the reality.’

Prince Harry said after yesterday’s legal ruling that it is ‘impossible’ to bring his wife and his children back to Britain.

Harry in his bombshell BBC interview said that he still loved the UK ‘despite what some people in that country have done’ and added that it was ‘really quite sad that I won’t be able to show my children my homeland’.

Harry said: ‘The only time I have come back to the UK is sadly for funerals or court cases, and with the odd charitable function where I can in-between that, and I put myself at risk for that, but I will continue on with a life of public service, and I will always support the charities and the people who mean so much to me.

‘I can’t see a world in which I will be bringing my wife and children back to the UK at this point and the things they are going to miss is everything. I love my country and always have done…despite what some people in that country have done.

‘So I miss the UK. I miss parts of the UK. Of course I do. I think it’s really quite sad that I won’t be able to show my children my homeland.’

Ex-BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond writes in the Daily Express that Harry ‘says he can only come back to the UK with his family if he is invited, because then he would get the security he believes he needs’.

She continues: ‘But this bombshell of an interview is unlikely to bring that invitation any closer. And that’s because at the root of the rift is the question of trust.

‘Harry’s father and brother do not trust Harry to keep conversations private. And this loudspeaker of a diatribe against them is not going to make them change their minds.’

The health of the King, who is being treated for cancer, was highlighted by his son in his interview last night, as he said: ‘And I said, life is precious. I don’t know how much longer my father has, he, he won’t speak to me because of this security stuff, but it would be nice to reconcile.’

Harry, who appeared emotional and close to tears through much of the interview, offered an olive branch, saying he could ‘forgive my family’s involvement’, naming Charles, the Prince of Wales and his stepmother, the Queen, in events since he began dating his wife Meghan in 2016.

He added: ‘But you know, I would love reconciliation with my family,’ and said there was ‘no point in continuing to fight anymore.’

After the legal result yesterday, Buckingham Palace took the unusal step of putting out a public statement.

It’s very rare for the Palace to comment on matters such as these – so it was a significant moment, coinciding with Prince Harry revealing he would like to make ameds with his family.

A Palace spokesperson said last night: ‘All of these issues have been examined repeatedly and meticulously by the courts, with the same conclusion reached on each occasion.’

Prince Harry has called on the Home Secretary to step in and review the body which authorises protection for senior royals – as he issued a fresh statement on his failed bid for security in the UK.

After the court’s decision on Friday, the 40-year-old said he would ask Yvette Cooper to ‘look at this very, very carefully’, and warned that the royal family’s power over security means it ‘can be used to control’ family members.

When asked whether Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer should ‘step in’, Harry told the BBC: ‘I think that based on the judgment that the court has put out today, it clearly states that Ravec are not constrained by law.

‘Again, I wish somebody had said that from the beginning.’

He continued: ‘Yes, I would ask the Prime Minister to step in.’

Prince Harry’s bombshell interview where he dished out the details of his strained relationship with his father is a ‘sad and sorry saga’, a royal expert has said.

The Duke of Sussex last night launched a blistering attack on King Charles, saying he ‘won’t speak to me’ and that he ‘doesn’t know how much longer he has left’.

He also revealed he will not bring his wife or children back to the UK – and said he had had ‘so many disagreements’ with his family, some of whom ‘may never forgive’ him for writing a book.

It comes as a royal insider claimed that while Harry may want to repair the relationship with his family, Charles is still frustrated and upset with his son.

A friend of the King said it would have been ‘constitutionally improper’ for him to intervene in the court case.

Harry’s level of security changed in 2020 when he and Meghan stepped down as working royals and moved to California for financial and personal freedom.

He has since argued the royal family and officials hoped his realisation of the increased safety risk ‘would force us to come back’.

The duke lost a Court of Appeal challenge over his security arrangements while in the UK and said in the TV interview he ‘can’t see a world in which I would be bringing my wife and children back to the UK’.

He failed in his appeal against the dismissal of his High Court claim against the Home Office, over the decision of the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec) that he should receive a different degree of protection when in the UK.

He has been fighting the ruling ever since, but suffered another loss on Friday.

Good morning and welcome to MailOnline’s live blog following all the latest reaction after Prince Harry’s interiew with the BBC.

Yesterday he lost the latest leg of a legal battle concerning the security he and his family are offered in the UK at the High Court.

He then spoke to the BBC and said he is keen for rapprochement with his family – but that his father ‘won’t speak ton him’ and he fears other relativws will ‘never forgive him’.

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