Less than two years after their wedding, Harry and Meghan made the announcement that they would no longer serve as royals. And a knowledgeable expert claims that a picture of their nephew prompted their decision.
After having their first face-to-face meeting in months, many hope Prince Harry and King Charles can get their fragile relationship back on track.
It comes after Harry claimed his father previously wasn’t speaking to him after a family fall out. Issues between the Sussexes and the royals can be traced back to the time they decided to quit royal life. And it according to one royal author, was a photo fo the Firm featuring Prince George that proved to be a ‘wake up call’ for Harry and his wife Meghan, and cemented their decision to quit life in the UK.
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The image in question showed the late Queen with her three heirs, the then-Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince George, who was six at the time, in the throne room at Buckingham Palace to mark the dawn of a new decade in 2020.
Just a few days prior to Harry and Meghan’s initial announcement that they would step down as working royals, the announcement was made. On first glance, the image merely reflected the monarchy’s future and mirrored many of its historical portraits. However, it is claimed that behind the scenes things got sour.
Andrew Morton wrote in Meghan: A Hollywood Princess that the royal couple believed the institution was conspiring against them as a whole. The evidence was everywhere for them as they saw it. With or without Meghan and Harry, the unwritten code provided for the monarchy’s future.
Morton further explained that Harry and Meghan had begun considering leaving The Firm sooner than the general consensus, and that negotiations started six months after their wedding, according to Morton in his podcast Pod Save The King. He claimed that Harry and Oprah Winfrey were engaged in a conversation in a hotel in London in November 2018. They therefore considered a different mode of transportation very early on.
A source earlier this week claimed that Harry’s latest move, in part due to his security arrangements in the UK, does run the risk of being reconciled with his father.
An insider close to the Duke of Sussex said that he wrote to the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood shortly after her appointment to the role and submitted a formal request for a risk assessment to the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec), overseen by the Home Office.
It comes after Harry lost an appeal in May challenging the Home Office’s decision to grant him a different level of taxpayer-funded protection while he is in the country.
Since he left his royal role, he is no longer automatically entitled to police protection, and he is currently receiving “bespoke” protection on a case-by-case basis.
But now a source has told The Sunday Times that his letter to Ms Mahmood, will make the King ‘wary’ of speaking to his younger son, saying: “It’s not going to help matters. We’re back to where we were.”
Harry’s family had previously suggested the King might have intervened, but palace sources have refrained from doing so.
According to The Sunday Times, the King and his advisers hoped that the Court of Appeal decision would sever a gap in the conflict and aid in Harry’s recovery.
Source: Mirror
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