Prince Harry, breaking with the royal family since 2020, assured Friday wanting to “reconcile” with it, and said he was “killed” by a court decision which, according to him, prevents him from returning with his wife and their two children in the United Kingdom for security reasons.
“I do not know how long it stays at my father (…), but it would be good that we reconcile,” said the youngest son of Charles III, Harry, in a long interview with the BBC where he appeared affected.
The Duke of Sussex, 40, also declared that he no longer had contact with the King, suffering from cancer whose nature has never been revealed, because of the legal proceedings which he has been conducting since 2021 against a government decision on his security. He lost appeal in this procedure on Friday.
Reacting to the court decision, which dismissed Harry, the Buckingham Palace considered that “all these questions have been examined several times and meticulously by the courts, which have come to the same conclusion each time”.
After leaving the United Kingdom in 2020, Harry and his wife Meghan, who live in California, lost the systematic protection provided for active members of the royal family, paid by the British taxpayer.
Now, the Ministry of the Interior assesses on a case -by -case basis the need for protection of the prince when it comes to the country, a decision that Harry disputes.
In his decision on Friday, judge Geoffrey your considered that the government’s decision had been “logical” because “the Duke of Sussex withdrew from royal functions and left the United Kingdom to live mainly abroad”.
However, he added that he was tired of judicial battles and did not plan to seize the Supreme Court. “There is no point in continuing to fight. Life is precious,” he said.
But in this context, he said he did not “imagine a world in which I would bring (his) woman and (his) children to the United Kingdom”.
He called on the government to intervene.
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“I like my country”
Harry only rarely comes to the United Kingdom, and Meghan did not go there since the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022.
This wish to reconnect with his family, with which he is even more cold since the publication of his “substitute” memories in early 2023, the Duke of Sussex had already formulated it on American TV in 2023.
“I like my country, I have always loved it, despite what some people in this country have done. I miss the United Kingdom, some regions of the United Kingdom are missing,” he added, saying “really sad that he could not show (his) homeland to (his) children”.
The links between the Duke of Sussex and “the firm” – the nickname attributed to the royal family – distended in 2020 when his wife Meghan and gave him up their royal obligations and moved to California.
An explosive interview with the American couple Oprah Winfrey in which they revealed that a member of the royal family questioned, when Meghan was pregnant, on the skin color that their son Archie would have, and a very critical Netflix mini-series at the end of 2022, added to tensions.
The blow of grace came in early 2023 with the publication of the “substitute”, a huge bookstore success. Harry targets his brother William, the Crown Prince, Queen Camilla, her sister-in-law Kate, adored by the British, or her father, King Charles III.
Harry also engaged in a legal crusade against tabloids in the United Kingdom, with more or less success. He judges that they are responsible for the death of his mother Diana, chased by paparazzi in Paris in 1997, and also accused them of harassment towards his wife Meghan.
More recently, he made the headlines after having resigned from his function as a sponsor of an association working in Africa, which he had created in memory of his mother Princess Diana, due to a conflict with her president.
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