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He’s desperate to let their kids see their grandfather –but she’s not so keen
He may be Sovereign of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms –but, at the end of the day, King Charles is a husband, father and grandfather. And it’s the latter role that’s apparently causing him much angst behind palace doors right now.
According to insiders, the King, 75, is filled with “great sadness” over his distant relationship with his two youngest grandchildren, Archie, five, and Lilibet, three, which –for the most part – has been limited to FaceTime calls across the pond. It’s said that Charles had begrudgingly accepted the status quo over the past few years, especially since his fractured relationship with son Prince Harry and daughter-in-law Meghan Markle has only worsened since they stepped down as senior royals and moved to Montecito, California, in 2020.
But recently things have changed. Charles’ cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment (which he’s still receiving), coupled with daughter-in-law Kate Middleton’s own cancer battle, has made the estrangement “all the more poignant” –and he’s not the only one who feels it. We’re told that Harry is just as mindful that his father won’t be around forever, and he wants his children to forge areal connection with their grandfather and wider family, who they barely know. There’s just one problem –Meghan has legitimate reasons for not wanting to return to the UK, having felt maligned and mistreated by the monarchy during the time she lived in the country in the early years of her and Harry’s relationship.
As far as she’s concerned, she has no intention of coming back anytime soon, and is just as uncomfortable with the idea of Harry bringing the kids for aholiday in the UK without her. So, Harry –who recently chose not to attend the wedding of his childhood friend, the Duke of Westminster, as brother William was an usher –is torn between the life he’s created and the one he left behind, with his father’s pain over the circumstances weighing heavily on his mind.
“Harry is desperate to bring his kids for a holiday to the UK and allow them that precious bonding time with their grandfather,” says an insider close to the Duke of Sussex, who has mostly travelled back to his homeland alone over the past few years, and on his last visit, wasn’t able to see Charles because of the monarch’s busy schedule. “He never imagined that they’d spend such a large chunk of their early years so cut off and isolated from their own flesh and blood, especially the King, who he knows would get so much joy from spe
