I’m ready to repair my strained relationships with my dad, King Charles, and my brother, Prince William — Prince Harry
Prince Harry has expressed his desire to reconcile with his father, King Charles III, and brother, Prince William, despite their longstanding disagreements.
Speaking to GQ magazine, he said: “Some people don’t want it to work out. I want it to work out. With everything else that’s going on in the world, the most important thing is to reconcile – that’s the key point.”
He added: “Scars stick around forever. But what your perception is, and what your mindset is to those things that have happened, letting go of the past, that’s something that I would encourage everybody to do.”
Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, stepped down as working royals in 2020. His memoir, Spare, detailed the family rift.
Speaking about family disagreements, Harry said: “Sibling disagreements, broken relationships between kids and their parents, kids and one parent – that continues to come up with me the whole time with people that I speak to.”
On his children, Archie and Lilibet, he said: “Opportunities for the family. Being able to put the kids in a British school has meant a lot to me. I didn’t know how important it was to me.”
“They [Archie and Lilibet] are loving it, and it’s just giving them a whole different experience,” he added.
On King Charles’s health following cancer treatment, Harry said: “He’s getting better.”
Reflecting on his mother, Princess Diana, who d+ed in 1997, he said: “I love the fact that I’m able to now sort of carry the memory of my mother with me, with my work, rather than it hold me down, pull me back, or wallowing in that grief.”
Rejecting public sympathy, he said: “I certainly don’t want any sympathy. That’s where we’re way past that. Why? Because I’m a prince. I’ve got a support network around me, I’ve done different forms of therapy, and I put in the work. I wonder where I would be if I didn’t – it could be a very different situation.”
A spokesman clarified that Harry’s comment about opposition to reconciliation was not directed at William or any other family member.
