Harry, Charles and William. peace against disease.

After years of tearing each other apart, will Prince Harry and William finally reconnect? The Duke of Sussex’s visit to London this Tuesday, February 6, to Charles III, who is suffering from cancer, in any case revives the hope of reconciliation within the royal family. It must be said that the youngest son of the King of England left Los Angeles without wasting time, immediately after the shocking announcement of his father’s cancer, which was discovered during prostate surgery about ten days ago. He was spotted at London’s Heathrow Airport on Tuesday afternoon.

As with his lightning visit to the coronation of Charles in May 2023, Prince Harry, unlike his father and especially his brother William, appears to have come alone from California, without his wife Meghan Markle and their two children, Archie and Lilibeth. “Is it time for Harry to come home?” asks the tabloid A mirror which, like most British newspapers, devoted long articles to a possible reconciliation between the Windsors, at a troubled time for the British monarchy.

The end of the fratricidal war.

The burning question is whether Harry will also meet William, whose wife Kate is also recovering from unspecified abdominal surgery, the source of much speculation. “While Charles is torn by the conflict between his sons and hopes for a rapprochement, William is convinced that trust (…) is completely broken,” says royal commentator Richard Kay. Daily Mail:AFP quotes.

While the monarch continued to express his love for his younger son, such as declaring his “love” to him the day after Elizabeth II’s death, his brother apparently did not digest it, as he was brutally crushed by Harry’s memories. Spare (The substitute, French). The Duke of Sussex is particularly critical of his senior, whom he describes as angry, and talks about his pain at having been his “shadow, (his) study, (his) plan B all his life. In these pages, he also implies that William did not marry his wife Kate for love.

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The last time the princes appeared together was in September 2022 at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, and according to Richard Kay, William and Harry did not exchange “a single word” for months. before the publication of SpareThe relationship between Lady Dee’s two sons, previously very close, had already deteriorated deeply, with tensions and conflicts amid constant pressure from the British tabloid press.

Harry and Meghan eventually slammed the door on the royal family and abandoned their commitment to exile in the United States in 2020, scathingly criticizing the British monarchy in interviews and a Netflix documentary series. During an interview with the influential American presenter Oprah Winfrey, they specifically claimed that members of the royal family were interested in the color of their son Archie’s skin. Without revealing the identity of the mentioned persons. But in early December, the names of King Charles and Princess Kate were mentioned in the Dutch version End of the reignJournalist Omid Scobi (a close friend of Meghan and Harry)’s latest book about the Windsors was quickly pulled by the publisher citing a “translation error”.

“The Royal Family Must Stay Together”

Meanwhile, it’s been almost four years since Prince Harry ran away from his family, in virtual exile. He returned to the UK only twice last year, for his father’s coronation and one of the many trials in June that pitted him against the British tabloids, which he is fighting against an unnamed judicial officer.

Despite the established distance between the brothers, “the royal family, like any other family, must stick together” in the face of the cancer ordeal, and a rapprochement, even a tentative one, could happen in the coming weeks, the royal family said. expert Richard Fitzwilliams, interviewed by AFP. “The only thing they still have is the love for their ‘dear dad’, the only parent they have left,” Camilla Tomini, another monarchy expert, also emphasized. The Telegraph. The reconciliation of the Windsors may have come.