Is there any hope for reconciliation between the royals and Prince Harry?
05.01.2023 - 20:21 / usmagazine.com
In his upcoming Spare memoir, Prince Harry revealed that King Charles III would joke about how they weren’t actually father and son.
“Pa liked telling stories, and this was one of the best in his repertoire. He’d always end with a burst of philosophizing: If this mental patient could be so thoroughly convinced of his identity, no less than Pa, it raised some very Big Questions indeed,” the Duke of Sussex, 38, wrote in an excerpt. “Who could say which of us was sane? Who could be sure they weren’t the mental patient, hopelessly deluded, humored by friends and family? Who knows if I’m really the Prince of Wales? Who knows if I’m even your real father? Maybe your real father is in Broadmoor, darling boy!”
Harry recalled not getting the humor behind his father’s joke at the time.
“He’d laugh and laugh, though it was a remarkably unfunny joke, given the rumor circulating just then that my actual father was one of Mummy’s former lovers: Major James Hewitt,” he added. “One cause of this rumor was Major Hewitt’s flaming ginger hair, but another cause was sadism. Tabloid readers were delighted by the idea that the younger child of Prince Charles wasn’t the child of Prince Charles.”
Harry continued: “They couldn’t get enough of this ‘joke,’ for some reason. Maybe it made them feel better about their lives that a young prince’s life was laugh-able. Never mind that my mother didn’t meet Major Hewitt until long after I was born.”
The BetterUp CIO’s relationship with his father, 74, took a turn when he announced that he and wife Meghan Markle would be leaving their senior duties behind in January 2020. The pair, who share son Archie, 3, and daughter Lilibet, 19 months, made their departure permanent in February of the following year.
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Is there any hope for reconciliation between the royals and Prince Harry?
opened up about his concern for and ’s children: nine-year-old , seven-year-old , and four-year-old ., Prince Harry discussed the emotional ramifications of the royal line of succession in a new interview , released on January 12. “As I know full well, within my family, if it’s not us,” Harry said while pointing to himself, “it’s going to be someone else.”He continued, “And though William and I have talked about it once or twice, and he has made it very clear to me that his kids are not my responsibility, I still feel a responsibility knowing that out of those three children, at least one will end up like me, the spare.
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