LONDON.- The king Charles III and his little son, the prince Harry, They were today morning – May 8th – very close and at the same time very far away, both of them being in Londonbut without any intention of seeing each other.
The 75-year-old monarch, who was diagnosed with cancer at the beginning of February, had an event in the green gardens of Buckingham Palace on his agenda this sunny Wednesday.
Harry, 39, who lives in the United States with his wife Meghan and their two children, had to attend a ceremony at Saint Paul’s Cathedral during the day.
Harry’s relations with his father and with his brother William, eldest son of the king and heir to the crown, 41 years old, are tense and were one of the reasons for the chosen exile of the youngest of the brothers, along with his family, to California in 2020.
That bad family relationship had a parenthesis due to the king’s cancer, which motivated a lightning trip by Harry in February, to see his father, with whom he met for just an hour, before the monarch traveled to his country residence.
His father’s cancer, the nature of which is unknown, or that of his sister-in-law, Princess Kate of Wales, 42, wife of his brother William, could have been good reasons to smooth things over.
“Very busy agenda”
This week’s trip by Harry, Duke of Sussex, to London for a charity event, a ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games, an international competition for wounded soldiers, might suggest a family reunion. But that may not be the case. Two years after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the waters are murky within the monarchy, with Harry’s distant relationship with Charles and William.
“A meeting between the two will unfortunately not be possible due to the very busy schedule of His Majesty Charles III,” said a spokesperson for Harry.
“The duke, of course, is aware of his father’s schedule, his commitments and his other priorities, and hopes to see him soon,” the same source added.
Nine months after his coronation in May 2023, the monarchy announced on February 5 that Charles III suffers from cancer that was discovered after a prostate operation in January.
The king, who continues his treatment, resumed his public activities last week, smiling and greeting people but walking slowly.
After that, Charles III included in his agenda for this Wednesday, inaugurating in the gardens of Buckingham Palace the series of traditional Garden parties, to which hundreds of British people are invited every year.
And like every Wednesday, he will hold his weekly meeting with the Prime Minister of the British Conservative government, Rishi Sunak.
– “Even more separated” –
Harry traveled once again without his family to London, a city in which he is seen from time to time due to the lawsuits he maintains against the British tabloid press, which he accuses of illegally interfering in his private life.
The tabloids, mostly hostile to Harry and Meghan, due to the complaints of both against this tabloid press, were not convinced by the excuse of their busy schedules.
For example, him Daily Mail He stated that the illness appears to have separated the two men even further.
An estrangement that is also evident between Harry and William, whom he did not meet on February 6 on his lightning trip from California to London due to the illness of their father and whom he will not see this time either.
Although they appeared together in public in the days following the death of his grandmother Elizabeth II, in September 2022, Harry’s accusations in his autobiography, in which he treated William as irascible and violent, distanced them.
The cancer of William’s wife, of which the details are also unknown, was announced almost at the same time as that of his father Charles III, after she underwent a mysterious abdominal operation.
FUENTE: AFP
