The identical can’t be stated, nonetheless, of the King and his youthful son. The day after the Palace revealed Charles’ cancer prognosis, Prince Harry flew to London to see his father. He stayed for simply over 24 hours, reportedly spending solely round 30 to 45 minutes at Clarence House, earlier than Charles departed for Buckingham Palace to take a helicopter to Sandringham. Soon afterwards, Harry advised reporters a couple of weeks later that he was grateful for the go to and advised that the information may serve to reunite the fractured household: ‘The fact that I was able to get on a plane and go to see him, and spend any time with him, I’m grateful for that… Any illness, any sickness, brings families together.’
This has not, nonetheless, been altogether the case for Harry and Charles. ‘I don’t thing there is any rapprochement,’ a supply shut to the Palace advised People magazine. ‘Nothing has changed’. Last 12 months, their relationship got here beneath explicit pressure thanks to an ongoing battle round Harry’s safety wants. The UK authorities noticed match to withdraw the Sussexes’ round the clock Metropolitan Police safety whereas on British soil when the couple moved to Montecito, a transfer that Harry has contested. The Prince did battle in courtroom with RAVEC, the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures and, in February final 12 months, he challenged the choice to downgrade his safety standing, arguing that he had been handled unfairly and nonetheless confronted important threats.
