“When the state visit to France was cancelled his diary was immediately filled with urgent pending issues.”
The commentator added being King isn’t “a part-time post”, before claiming it is unlikely the head of state wants a “confrontation” with his second son after he attacked the Firm and its members in his memoir, Spare.
She continued: “Charles and Camilla were due to be out of the country when he arrived in the UK. Harry would have never envisaged something as politically sensitive as a state visit being postponed.
“Harry is not quite as brave as he makes out he is. However much noise he might have made about wanting a discussion, being ushered into Clarence House to meet with an irate and disappointed father was almost certainly not on his agenda.”
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Ms Seward referred to Prince Harry’s public request for a meeting with key members of the Royal Family to discuss his and the Duchess of Sussex’s row with the Firm.
The Duke mentioned his desire to iron out his differences with his UK relatives in a number of interviews released in January, when he was promoting his book.
Speaking with US journalist Anderson Cooper on CBS’s 60 Minutes, Harry said, when asked if the rift with his family can be healed: “The ball is very much in their court, but, you know, Meghan and I have continued to say that we will openly apologise for anything that we did wrong, but every time we ask that question, no one’s telling us the specifics or anything.
“There needs to be a constructive conversation, one that can happen in private that doesn’t get leaked.”
