As per Radar Online, the meeting came after the initial period of turbulence relating to Harry and Meghan’s decision to step back from their roles as working royals, and just one month on from their aforementioned interview with Oprah.
Harry had traveled back to the UK for the funeral of his grandfather, Prince Philip, and was perhaps hoping to nip things in the bud concerning the growing unrest initiated by what he and Meghan had told the world via Oprah.
The Duke of Sussex revealed in his memoir, Spare, that he had waited anxiously for his brother and father after arranging the secret meeting, while also admitting that he feared they might cancel the meeting altogether.
In his book, the duke wrote of seeing his father and brother: “I rose from the wooden bench, made a tentative step towards them, gave a weak smile. They didn’t smile back. Now my heart really started thrashing in my chest. Deep breaths, I told myself. Apart from fear, I was feeling a kind of hyper-awareness, and a hugely intense vulnerability, which I’d experienced at other key moments of my life. Walking behind my mother’s coffin. Going into battle for the first time. Giving a speech in the middle of a panic attack.”
He added. “There was that same sense of embarking on a quest, and not knowing if I was up to it, while also fully knowing that there was no turning back. That Fate was in the saddle. ‘OK, Mummy,’ I thought, picking up the pace, here goes. ‘Wish me luck.’ We met in the middle of the path. Willy? Pa? Hello. Harold. Painfully tepid.”
At the time of writing, relations between Harry, Charles and William aren’t showing much sign of improvement. This in spite of the respective cancer blows suffered by Charles and Kate Middleton.
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