Prince Harry has said he wants “reconciliation” with the Royal Family – but claims the King “won’t speak to me”.
In an interview with BBC News after losing a legal challenge over his security in the UK, the Duke of Sussex said “there have been so many disagreements between myself and some of my family”.
He added that the security row, “that has now been ongoing for five years with regards to my human life and safety”, is “the sticking point” and “the only thing that’s left”.
Harry said he had now “forgiven” the Royal Family, but added that the King “won’t speak to me because of this security stuff”.
“Life is precious,” he said. “I don’t know how much longer my father has, he won’t speak to me because of this security stuff. It would be nice to reconcile.”
It comes after Harry earlier today lost his legal challenge against the UK government over the level of security he receives when he is in the country.
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After he and Meghan stepped down from full-time royal duties and moved to the US in 2020, the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec) decided to downgrade his high-level police protection for when he was back in the country.
Since then, the duke has argued that his private protection team in the US no longer had access to the UK intelligence information needed to keep his wife and children safe.
At the Royal Courts of Justice on Friday, Judge Sir Geoffrey Vos said that while the duke’s safety concerns were both “powerful and moving”, his “sense of grievance” did not “translate into a legal argument”.
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Harry ‘let down’ by ruling
In the BBC News interview, he said he cannot “see a world in which I would be bringing my wife and children back to the UK at this point” because of the security row.
Harry added he was “let down” and felt the decision was “a good old-fashioned establishment stitch-up,” before adding he worries the decision sets “a new precedent that security can be used to control members of the family”.
He said he believes “what it does is imprison other members of the family from being able to choose a different life”.
The duke also said “this all was initiated under a previous government” and said he would ask Sir Keir Starmer and the home secretary to “step in”.
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