Prince Harry misses the UK and his friends who live here, it has been claimed by a royal commentator.
The Duke of Sussex moved to California with his wife in the summer of 2020.
Months earlier the pair stepped down as senior working royals, with the couple then deciding to set up lives for themselves in the States.
And now royal commentator Michael Cole has said that the father-of-two misses his home country, as well as his UK-based friends, the sports he used to play, and the life that came with it.
Speaking on GB News to Stephen Dixon and Anne Diamond, Mr Cole said: “I’ve seen him – Prince Harry – from the time he was a little boy. The day he went to nursery school for the first time with his mother and came out with his finger puppet to take home to show his mother afterward.”
“I saw him on his first holiday abroad with his family and of course, we’ve seen him grow up. And let us remember the happy Prince, let us remember the Prince we admired for doing two tours of duty in Afghanistan.”
He noted how Harry used to be “extraordinarily popular” before “it all went sideways” when the Duke and Duchess “scooted off first of all to Canada, and then to California”.
He then added: “So it is very sad to see it brought to this particular stage.”
“He has said in recent days, [that] he misses Britain, he misses his friends, he misses the sport, he misses the camaraderie.
“He misses a lot about this country. And in a way, I think we miss him and of course, with the recent events, both the Princess of Wales in hospital, there would have been a very important role for him to pick up some slack here and play his full part in the Royal Family.”
“You know, never say never. The Prodigal son is always welcome,” Mr Cole went on to say, before adding: “Perhaps he should be back here and perhaps he even thinks that.
“I can’t imagine what was going through his mind when he heard that his sister-in-law, about whom has been rather unkind, indeed cruel, in his book Spare and indeed in other books, which he appears to have been involved in, I wonder what he thought about that.”
“There’s a woman who has gone into hospital, it is quite clearly not a trivial thing, it’s not a minor matter. I don’t think we’ve exaggerated the seriousness of it all.
“Staying in the hospital for two weeks doesn’t happen these days, as soon as you are on your feet, they send you home.”
