Leading up to this year’s Trooping the Colour ceremony, sources explained why Prince Harry wasn’t invited to the big day,
and even before that, much was said about why the monarch didn’t attend Harry’s Invictus Games event in London. Now, sources close to the royal family say that King Charles would love to welcome his son, Prince Harry, back into the fold—on one condition.
Royal insider and author Tom Quinn told The Mirror that the king would welcome Harry back with open arms if he promised not to write any more books about the royal family or give “embarrassing” interviews. Quinn even went as far as saying that the king would want a “cast-iron guarantee” on the matter.
“King Charles would love to be closer to Harry and to have a relationship with his son that actually works. But this depends on Harry giving his father cast-iron guarantees that there will be no more books and no more embarrassing interviews,” Quinn said.
However, Quinn also noted that Harry’s attitude could be a major hurdle for him, so even with the offer of a reconciliation coming from the gilded gates of Buckingham Palace, the Duke of Sussex may not be open to taking the olive branch. “Harry still feels that he is the victim and that his family need to make promises to him, not the other way round,” Quinn added.
The royal expert is also drawing parallels between Harry’s attitude toward the Firm and his late mother’s. Quinn noted that Harry is letting “history repeat itself” as he criticized the family just like Princess Diana did when she was alive. In his memoir, Spare, Harry mentioned wanting “peace” with his family, but Quinn shares that he’s not doing much to achieve that goal.
“Harry’s comment in Spare that he ‘wants peace’ with the royal family for the sake of his mother is undoubtedly heartfelt, but in being so focused on Diana, Harry is actually allowing history to repeat itself,” Quinn said.
