King Charles III has reportedly backed off from responding to messages from his estranged son Prince Harry as he tries to keep his “stress levels down” amid his cancer battle.
Daily Mail contributor Robert Hardman, author of The Making of a King: King Charles III and the Modern Monarchy, tells fox news digital That the king has been urged not to reply to messages from his younger son.
“I know people keep saying, ‘Why doesn’t he see Harry when he’s in town? Why can’t they fix things?’,” he said.
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“But right now, it looks like we have to keep the king’s stress levels down.
“We don’t want him to have extra things to worry about. Let’s deal with this…feels like maybe now isn’t the time.
Hardman further said that there was “a lot to uncover” in the things Harry had said publicly about his relationship with his father.
“There’s a lot of things he wants to figure out for the process,” Hardman said.
“Right now, it feels like this is not the time. But I am sure the king would like to normalize things.”
The 75-year-old monarch had revealed in February that he had been diagnosed with cancer following prostate surgery.
The unknown form of the disease has required weekly treatments since then.
King Charles put those treatments on hold for his recent tour of Australia, which royal observers at the time said showed how far the monarch was willing to go. keep the monarchy together,
Prince Harry arrives for Charles’s coronation ceremony in May 2023 Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, opted to stay at home with their two children.
During the ceremony, Harry sat two rows behind his older brother William, who was next in line to the throne.
Since he ceased to be a working member of the royal family, he has been involved in a high-profile legal case after losing a security detail paid for by the UK government.
Harry has offered to personally pay for a police protection detail on his visits to the UK, but this has been rejected by the court.
A source told People magazine that Harry felt it was an issue in which the king “could intervene”.
