Prince Harry said he would like to reconcile with his family in Britain during a Emotional BBC interview In which he admitted that he had no idea of the prognosis of his father, King Charles III, who has cancer, and expressed the wish to end their painful gap.
The interview was released for hours after Harry lost the last round of his legal battle for his government -funded safety in the country.
Speaking in California, where he lives with his wife Meghan and their two children, Harry said: “I would like reconciliation with my family.” He added: “It makes no sense to keep fighting anymore. Life is expensive. I don’t know how long my father has. He won’t talk to me because of this security gear. But it would be nice to reconcile.”
The king announced that he was diagnosed with one unknown form of cancer At the beginning of 2024, weekly treatments have since received.
Harry, the younger son of Charles, wrote in detail about the fracture Between him and other members of the royal family in his memoirs from 2023, “Reserve.” He acknowledged in the interview on Friday that the book had been divided.
“Of course some members of my family will never forgive me to write a book,” he said. “Of course they will never forgive me for many things.” But he said he believed that the dispute about whether he should receive automatic police protection in Great -Britain, the last remaining “bottleneck” was in the conflict, and he expressed the hope that Charles could help solve it.
Harry has fought a decision to remove the automatic police protection to members of the royal family. That movement was done after he kicked of its official role and left the country in 2020.
Harry lost the previous phase of the case in February 2024 but appealed. That statement came on Friday.
Geoffrey Vos, one of the three judges who rejected Harry’s case, said the hearing on Friday that a “tailor-made” process adopted by a government committee after he had moved to California, allowing British officials to make decisions about his visits to Great Britain, where he was case on case.
He said that the decision to downgrade Harry’s automatic protection was “a comprehensible and perhaps predictable reaction to the Duke of Sussex who took a step back from royal tasks and left the UK”
The ruling is a setback for Harry, who has spent more than three years fighting the deeply personal matter. As evidence that was presented to the court, the legal team of Harry told threats for his security and described “extra layers of racism and extremism” that they said they encouraged abuse to his family. After attending hours hearings at the Court of Appeal last month, Harry told the Daily Telegraaf He was “exhausted” and “overwhelmed” by the legal process.
In the court, his lawyers said he had been left with ‘inferior treatment’ who endangered his security and that of his wife, Meghan, and their two children. And they argued that the decision to withdraw the normal level of protection for royals had violated the official policy.
The decision in 2020 was taken by a body called the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalties and Public Figures, known as Ravec, who brings government officials, the police and members of the Royal Household together.
Harry started his legal challenge in September 2021. Early in the case, he offered to reimburse or pay the costs of the security measures itself, but Ravec decided that the move would be ‘in principle’ wrong.
The committee would be concerned that allowing private payment “would reduce availability” of a limited pool of close protection officers in Great Britain, where the police do not routinely wear weapons and undergo intensive specialist training for the role.
Harry lost a legal challenge about the financing decision in 2023 and a judge of the Supreme Court rejected his case on wider grounds in February 2024.
He was given permission to appeal three months later, but only on legal points about whether the committee had violated its own policy on how to decide which people should get protection.
While he gave the decision of the Court of Appeal on Friday, Judge Vos agreed that her policy was not followed, but said that this was ‘good reason’, and in accordance with risk assessments and expertise in the field of royal protection.
Judge Vos acknowledged that Harry feared for the safety of his family and “felt bad because of the system,” but he said that this did not make the committee’s decisions illegal.
Although the case is underway, Harry Groot has visited Britain on various occasions, including for the funeral of his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, and for the coronation of his father, King Charles III.
The Supreme Court heard that every visit to the Commission had caused public protection, which now qualified for Harry and the use of private security.