Prince Charles hasn’t seen his younger son, Prince Harry, in nearly eight months, but they’re back on good terms, according to multiple sources.
The pair last saw each other in person at Prince Philip’s funeral in April, and Charles has yet to meet his granddaughter Lilibet, who was born in July and has spent several days this week in Barbados as it becomes a republic.
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“Charles was hugely hurt when Harry and Meghan just dumped it on the family they were giving up their roles and moving abroad,” a royal insider said, referring to Harry and Meghan Markle’s decision to “quit” the family.
“I don’t think [Harry and Charles] talked for a good while, but now the channels of communication are open. I don’t think it’s all roses. It’s not like they are sitting down for a heart-to-heart on the phone once a week.”
According to the new book “Brothers and Wives” by Christoper Andersen, Charles inadvertently sparked a rift with Harry and Meghan who is biracial by asking his wife, Camilla, “What do you think their children’s complexion might be?”
A rep for Charles described the account as “fiction,” while Harry and Meghan have not commented on it, but a highly placed source told The Post this week, “I think people, on both sides of the Atlantic, in the family are united in agreeing they don’t want to give this book any more oxygen.”
During his and Meghan’s shocking interview with Oprah Winfrey in March, Harry was brutally honest about his feelings about his father. He claimed that his brother, William, and father were both trapped by their roles and that Charles had left him financially destitute.
The heir to the throne continued to financially support Harry and Meghan after they stepped down as senior members of the royal family, according to financial accounts released this summer, spending $6.3 million on his sons over the past year.
In May, Harry claimed that Charles expected him to “suffer” in the same way that he had, and that he had been handed down a “cycle” of “genetic pain and suffering.”
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“Just because you suffered doesn’t mean your children have to suffer… “That doesn’t make sense,” Harry said in an episode of his Apple+ docuseries “The Me You Can’t See.”
The Mail on Sunday reported that when Harry returned to Britain in June for the unveiling of a statue of his late mother, Princess Diana, he and his father planned to have a one-on-one dinner, but it is not believed that this dinner took place.
