PRINCE Harry and King Charles have reportedly not spoken to each other in months, with the monarch not taking his calls, according to a royal expert.
This is despite the , 40, flying to the UK last week to attempt to
The has been embroiled in a bitter High battle after the refused to fund his bodyguards after he left the .
Speaking on Flying Eze’s show, Royal Correspondent Sarah Hewson said: “There is absolutely no way that the King could be seen to be intervening in this at all.
“Even any innocuous comment that could have been interpreted in a way and find its way into evidence in the court by ‘s barrister.”;
She added: “The King can't have conversations with him. And we're learning that the distance between them is perhaps greater than ever.”;
Flying Eze’s Royal Editor Matt Wilkinson replied: “They've not spoken for months and months and months.”;
According to Sarah, the royal father and son duo haven’t seen each other since February last year – following announcing he had cancer.
She claimed: “And that was that one brief 30 minute meeting after the King's diagnosis.
“And we're learning through sources close to Harry who've been speaking to People magazine, which is often their preferred outlet if they want to get a message out there, that Harry only found out about his father's recent visit to hospital through the media, and that he doesn't know what his father's prognosis is.”;
GB News Royal Correspondent Cameron Walker claimed there is a “fundamental reason”; why communication has broken down.
On this week’s episode, he shared: “The King sees it really as his duty as head of state that he should not get involved with the judicial system.
“And I think he may well have been advised that he probably shouldn't take his son's calls in case this court case is brought up, in case he's forced to say something to .”;
The royal expert added that Charles may also be worried that “private conversations Harry has with his family members can end up being leaked to the press or published in a book.”;
Cameron continued: “I think that is what's making the royal family and those close to them paranoid about talking to Prince Harry, particularly on [what] could be a fundamental constitutional issue such as this.”;
It was recently reported that Harry found the decision of his security being scrapped “difficult to swallow” and felt that it was a scheme crafted to force him and Meghan back into the Royal Family again.
sat partly in private to hear confidential evidence, the 40-year-old duke was said to be unhappy with what he heard.
As he left the Royal of Justice, Harry told The Telegraph “people would be shocked by what's being held back”.
The appeal decision will be handed down by the three-judge panel after Easter, which according to Royal biographer Cameron Walker, will be the ‘s “last chance saloon”.
The King's private secretary, Sir Clive Alderton, is on the Royal and VIP Committee (RAVEC) which makes the decision with the Home Office on whether or not to downgrade the Prince's security.
When RAVEC's original decision was shared that Met protection would be scrapped, the Duke said it had been imposed upon him “as some form of punishment for protecting my family and putting them first”;.
The King can't have conversations with him. And we're learning that the distance between them is perhaps greater than ever
Sarah HewsonRoyal Correspondent
“People would be shocked by what’s being held back,”; he said, adding that his “worst fears have been confirmed by the whole legal disclosure in this case and that’s really sad”;.
The dad-of-two said he is being “driven by exposing injustice” and that he is determined to “get under the bonnet and fix it”;.
He also hinted he would never be able to forgive what he viewed as a deliberate move to scrap the protection for his family.
Harry's family feud
Princes William and Harry have not been in direct communication since the release of Harry's controversial memoir, Spare, in January 2023.
Their last reported interaction was during the of their grandmother, , in September 2022, but conversations were said to be brief.
The feuding brothers reportedly did not speak to each other despite standing “virtually back to back” among mourners at their uncle's memorial service last August.
The Duke of and his brother did not exchange a word at the memorial in Snettisham, – and Harry stayed at Althorp during the UK stay.
The brothers have been at loggerheads since in 2020 for a new life in the US, where they have launched a succession of barbs at the Royal Family.
