Part of People Magazine’s cover story about QEII’s death-anniversary is about King Charles and how he’s dealing with one of the biggest issues facing his reign: his lack of control over his charismatic son and daughter-in-law, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. The only similarity between Charles and his mother is their habitual ostrich-syndrome. Charles’s is worse though, because he dithers and he can’t even decide how to approach the Sussex issue. Instead of choosing the path of a loving father, he seems to be trying to convince everyone (and himself) that the Sussexes are merely a minor inconvenience, one which he can ignore forever. Even People Magazine’s “sources” can’t decide on a path of action for discussing Charles’s dogsh-t behavior towards his son.
King Charles’ fractured relationship with his son Prince Harry is certainly on his mind one year after Queen Elizabeth’s death. As the late monarch often brought her family together, Prince Harry’s rift with the royals seems wider than ever. Fissures within the family came to the fore when King Charles’ younger son and his wife, Meghan Markle, left the U.K. for the U.S. in 2020, and relations have remained strained since.
“I’m sure [the King] misses him. Harry is entertaining, warm and very loving as well. And they had a great relationship,” a source close to the royal household tells PEOPLE in this week’s exclusive cover story. King Charles “leans toward the compassionate rather than the disciplinarian style of family leadership,” adds royal biographer and Queen of Our Times author Robert Hardman, implying hope for the future.
If he’s looking for a way forward, the King, 74, could examine the way his mother negotiated public scandals, political upheavals and family drama during her history-making 70-year reign.
“[The Queen] managed to navigate these choppy waters, and that’s why she was always admired and loved — because she got the family through,” says the source close to the royal household. “[Charles] will have to show that he can do that.”
Queen Elizabeth was “especially important [to Harry],” a friend tells PEOPLE, and the anniversary of her death will surely be top of mind on Friday.
In matters both personal and professional, “there is an enormous loss,” says a source close to the royal household, “as [the Queen] played a very important part in all of their lives. But I’m impressed at how smoothly things are moving forward given all the little hiccups that there are in the background.”
The biggest “hiccup” of all, of course, has been the ongoing estrangement of Harry and Meghan from the rest of the royal family. Queen Elizabeth — despite being someone with whom Harry had “his own rapport,” as Hardman puts it — was tough with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex when she felt she had to be, ruling they couldn’t be half in, half out of the royal family as they’d hoped. When it comes to the royal way of doing things, “There’s no [hemming] and hawing,” Hardman tells PEOPLE. “It’s like, ‘Here are your options, and can we have an answer by Friday?’ ”
QEII “managed to navigate these choppy waters, and that’s why she was always admired and loved — because she got the family through… [Charles] will have to show that he can do that.” Because Charles hasn’t shown that he can navigate his way out of a wet paper bag. Charles can’t negotiate intra-family disputes and that alone speaks volumes about his sh-tty leadership skills in a larger sense. Any “top CEO,” any skilled manager worth a damn, would have found a way to cauterize this PR bleed after three and a half years. It’s not even about fully reconciling with Harry and Meghan (although Charles should at least try to do that) – it’s about taking a public position (as QEII did) that the Sussexes are much-loved family members, that they are always welcome in the UK, that Charles would love to see his grandchildren. Instead, he evicted them from their UK home out of spite and he openly briefs against them still. You can’t be a skilled manager AND an open sadist.
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He snubs him. He wants nothing to do with him? Now he misses him? My head is spinning today with this. If you miss him pick up the phone and call him. I won’t hold my breath.
If he truly loved his son he would never have allowed things to get this bad. The man allowed is mistress bride (I think someone called her) to turn his room into a closet, with dozens of rooms in his house, she chose HIS room, and he did nothing. It never occurred to him how that would make Harry feel? He’s continually allowed and participated in the abuse of Harry. I think they call it coercive control in Britain? There is no doubt Harry has been abused in that family firm. The only person he ever loved was his current wife. Whatever love means. Heartless, cruel, cowardly.
His 75th birthday is coming up and guess what he’ll never have? PR worthy images of him as a doting grandfather. Any photos with the Wales kids will just bring up the ones who are missing.
We all said it a million times – they people have no long-term vision.
Right? Eden in the Daily Mail says that Charles won’t speak to Harry because only his actions gave the Queen stress, not her pedophile son, the cash for honors scandal, her husband of 70+ years dying, a global pandemic, Brexit, or the revolving door of Prime Ministers. But Charles misses Harry because he was lots of fun. Make it make sense, British Media! Charles has had ample opportunity to make nice with his son and drops the ball every time.
Are we talking about the doting dad who removed his son’s, stepdaughter’s and grandchild’s security? If it weren’t for Canada and Tyler Perry, we’d be reading their obituary by now.
Henry is a Prince of the United Kingdom, his name is in the line of succession, meaning there’s no rational explanation – only retaliation – that can possibly justify his security be taken away and funded on his own moneys.
Do we need more damning evidence that Charles is A MONSTER? He succeeded in making Harry an orphan, but he loves him 🤔.
If any of this was true, KFC wouldn’t have EVICTED Harry and his family from FC, their only home in the UK. The end.
I’ve always thought Charles was smarter than William but that family is nothing but abusive, manipulative, gaslighting and toxic individuals. My lord. Harry and Meghan did the right thing leaving. You miss him but you evict him from Frogmore. You take away his security. You let your other son help force your more charismatic son and wife out, which had a huge affect on the monarchy as a whole. Not to mention the son that you allow do that is lazy and has been telegraphing for years that he would be better at your job. What is wrong with these people? No wonder the press want Harry back. He actually acts human with a brain.
1000% agree. Charles will never live down what he did to Harry and his wife and children. The entire world sees him, has read his face. He will never have true respect of anyone.
Charles has spent all of Harry’s life making sick jokes about how he is not his father and then take great pleasure in watching Harry look and feel hurt and dejected. Charles was upset when Diana gave birth to a redhead little baby boy who looked like his maternal Spencer relatives. Since then, Charles has made it his duty and responsibility to heap and inflict as much pain and abuse on his innocent child who had no hand in choosing to be a ginger boy. Charles has spent all of Harry’s life punishing him for not being a girl, for looking like the Spencers, for being a kind hearted person, for having more charisma than the rest of them, for being more loved by the UK public than him. These fools call that love? I beg to differ, Charles has never loved Harry, never.
Harry looks a lot like his grandfather prince philip. Charles joking about ugly gossip about harry is monstrous.
@Brit, now you have me thinking about that, too— I agree that Charles is probably *slightly* smarter than William, but William is such a complete idiot, so that’s not saying much. Charles’s PR has been so all over the place, though, and at least William’s is consistent: he HATES Harry and never strays from that message.
Poor Harry, stuck with these two petty morons.
In Charles eyes maybe, Harry was the perfect scapegoat.
The man couldn’t even hug his son after telling him his mother had died.
He has now planned his crown party on his grandsons birthday and took away their home, a gift from his mother to her beloved grandson.
Sidenote: I will always laugh when I see the photo of Good King Harry surrounded by his geriatric security team. To think Charles and Co. thought they could diminish Harry by refusing to let him wear his uniform and instead, he stood out head and shoulders above all of them just cracks me up.
Yep they shot themselves in the foot with that one. Good King Harry and his minions.
I’m sorry, but I’m going to speak ill of the dead. QEII did not navigate these waters well. Princess Diana’s death, anyone? Andrew and his ongoing scandals? All the divorces of her children? She didn’t navigate any of this well at all – ever! Charles was raised by cold and distant parents and he is a cold and distant man as a result. I get it was “their way” but the fact that it wasn’t “their way” with all of their children – just Charles apparently – speaks volumes. QEII may have been a good queen, but she was a lousy mother.
You beat me to it, @ SARAHLEE. See my comment below 👇.
Maybe she was an astute person and recognized that Charles was not only unfit to be king (which is why she held on for so long), but also that he is a bit of a sociopath and vile human being.
I can’t even recommend her as a ‘queen’.
Besides the Commonwealth, she did nothing but smile and wave.
Oh, she also lived darn near a century.
1star. Would not recommend.
“1 star, would not recommend.”
@Renae, 😂😂😂
LMAO!!!
The queen though did not allow her heir to bully one of his brothers and drive him out. Charles blames his parents for his own shortcomings. He never took any responsibility for his own choices
There’s no hemming and hawing? I guess flipping and flopping are more regal. C-Rex refuses to adapt and think strategically. His actions are all led by his emotions which is recipe for disaster for a head of state. His lack of morals and compassion are problematic for someone who’s the head of a major church. And he will only bring the family together when he wants them to kiss his ass, oops, I mean his ring…
Appreciate Kaiser calling these people what they are. An open sadist. Meghan and Harry raising their family in California is the best thing they could have ever done.
It’s all pr spin. It’s all garbage. Even the part about QEII. Given how they all turned out, it’s absurd to suggest she was a model mother and manager of the family. They need to stop digging!
@Brassy Rebel – Of course it’s PR spin. Look at the timing of this release. Harry was headline news with Wellchild. The BRF didn’t get a look in. Then we’ve got a week long celebration of injured veterans from all over the world sharing their stories because of what Harry instigated. So, of course KCIII will want to ride on his son’s coattails and put out a positive message.
As much as I’d love a reconciliation between father and son. Telling the MSM that he “loves” his son really doesn’t cut it. I still find it hard to accept KCIII allowed William to veto Lili’s christening and that the whole bliddy lot of them boycotted her christening in “Overseas.” Actions speak louder than words and KCIII should get on a plane and visit those grandchildren before it’s too late. It doesn’t even have to be a “big” thing. We don’t need to see the photos but just knowing that the “olive branch” is real would be enough.
@Brassy Rebel AMEN!
This stuff is all SO wild from a PR perspective, and the CEO comparison is apt, because as an institution what a continual and complete PR failure on every level – but for folks with a familiarity with really toxic family dynamics like a narcissistic or emotionally immature parent and triangulation 3tc., this all feels sadly very rote. The parent who seemingly hates, despises, envies, emotionally neglects, outwardly abuses their child/children, but also “loves them so much” and has “no idea” why they are no contact with them. They are always FLOORED that these people that they created to be their emotional whipping boys/girls etc. grow up and don’t want to continue that roll just to serve their parents interests.
I’m not convinced it was QEII who made the decision on their half in half out request. I think it was Chuck and his advisors who were controlling it all… and trying to control H and M.
Yep. My thought too. No idea how she was cognitively and from what I’ve been reading the fact that she was standing when she met is liz truss was a miracle indeed – was mostly in a wheel chair at at point?. She apparently had bone cancer, which is ridiculously painful, was on medication, which apparently made her less than cognitively present. That’s why Harry was worried about her. He knew her condition and likely suspected she was being manipulated. Remember Harry describing how during the ‘summit’ willy was yelling and screaming at him and his grandmother was just sitting quietly, taking it all in. It spoke volumes about willy and how utterly disrespectful he was to the Q. I can only imagine what else they were doing, given her condition.
I interpret the sitting quietly and taking it all in as being out of it at that point. Because I remember how my mother was at that age just sitting vacantly, staring into space, and certainly unable to engage in any conversation due to her failing condition and medications. Elizabeth was used as a prop at that point, and nothing else.
And Charles, here’s a novel thought, pick up the phone and call your son if you miss him so much and want a relationship with him.
411fromdownunder: EXACTLY – came here to say that! Who hates to compromise more than Charles or William? They’re both ridiculous, pompous idiots and of course they would have advisers who tell them exactly what they want to hear.
Agree with this, especially how @Feeshalori put it.
I don’t know if there was only a slow decline in the Queen’s health, or if there was a specific turning point, but the story about how Harry made lunch plans with the Queen and then some aide overruled her and cancelled them has always bothered me. It seems like something had changed, and suddenly she was either no longer capable of making her own decisions, or no longer being “allowed” to make them herself. (Either that or her health took a quick downturn and they didn’t want to be honest with Harry about it? They were constantly screeching about how the Sussexes couldn’t be trusted.)
IDK, but the entire thing was sketchy.
IIRC, the Queen was actually okay with the half-in plan, and she just wanted to nail down some guidelines/details; it was William and Charles (but mostly William, who then bullied Charles into agreeing with him) who vetoed it.
Charles was a horrible dad, more worried about Camilla than his sons. The king probably does miss Harry but he let his horse-faced mistress wife talk him into kicking H&M out of Frogmore Cottage. Charles seems like he believes whatever the brown nosers who serve him say. If KC3 read Harry’s book he’d see the prince let him off easy. And the “queen” got much better than she deserved in Spare. Queen Elizabeth, Diana — they all knew Charles wasn’t up for the top job.
I wonder if it was Camilla, or if it was TOB who convinced Charles to evict Harry from Frogmore. Both of them were furious about what got revealed in SPARE but while both are also vindictive a_holes, Cams seems to play the long game while TOB hits out right away (and long term!)
Although Adelaide is considered Kate’s separation home, he and she might still not want any chatter about how Frogmore is a nicer, bigger home on the same estate.
Nothing says love like evicting your son from his home.
And allegedly kicking him out to try and put your pedo brother in there. Father of the year!
So compassion is making Harry’s life less safe? Huh. My copy of Merriam-Webster has it all wrong.
It’s clear that Charles wants the PR illusion of peace and William is in a constant state of rage and anger and doesn’t want peace. No wonder they’re back and forth. It’s a power struggle with those two now.
Nothing quite says “I love my son” like pulling his security, cutting him off financially, disrespecting his wife and then evicting him from his home. So please tell me again how Charles “leans towards the compassionate”.
@Harla A Brazen Hussy – The pulling of his security was a HUGE faux pas. A friend of mine and her husband are very anti-Harry and Meghan but, both of them were astonished that KCIII left his son vulnerable.
The problem for KCIII’s image and his cancelling of Harry’s security, is most decent families (even when there has been a major falling out) wouldn’t knowingly put their child in danger. Most families will curse the child up hill and down dale amongst themselves but, woe betide any outsider who tries to do the same. KCIII and TOB have shown us who they are and where their interests lay and it’s not about protecting everyone in the family with the surname Mounbatten-Windsor. Unless of course you associate with convicted trafficers and then you can get the king to do exactly what you want!
I mean, I guess that compared to William, who is *at all times* in a state of red-faced, clenched-fists rage, telling any publication that will listen that he “HATES HIS BROTHER AND NEVER WANTS TO SEE OR SPEAK TO HIM EVER AGAIN!”, it’s possible that Charles, while slightly more quietly vindictive, looks “compassionate” in comparison?
All Charles has to do is not act completely fcking unhinged and he’ll seem super reasonable next to TOB.
Charles and Harry only had a “great relationship” as long as Harry agreed to be the family scapegoat. Remember how this relationship started out with Charles letting people know he had wanted a girl.
Exactly.
Yep.
Charles could have tried for a girl with Diana. Charles seems to pay more attention to his make grand sons. In the family portrait he say near the male children and charlotte was placed on the other side away from the others.
So are we snubbing him or missing him chucky ? These people really need to pick a struggle
@overit, maybe we have it wrong, maybe Charles does love and miss Harry nhfvbjo7dcv, oops sorry about that, I had to duck a low flying pig???
@Mary Pester: 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Harry and Meghan left on the Queen’s watch so she can’t be absolved from this situation. But Charles really missed Harry he would not have evicted him from his only home in the UK.
We all now know that the decisions regarding Harry and Meghan were not taken by the Queen. She was just signing whatever was laid in front of her. Harry wa very concerned about the people surrounding her.
It turned out to be the best for them, that wonderfully thought out arrangement would only have worked, if the Sussexes would have been working for the Queen….
The two interfering heirs would’ve made it impossible….
If Charles misses Harry that much, he can pick up a phone and call him. He can say “why don’t you and Meghan and the kids come to the UK for [insert reason here] and I’ll make sure you have your own security and that you don’t have to interact with your rage-monster of a brother.” He can say “here, have Frogmore for your home base in England.” he can say “When can I come to California? i would love to see your new home.”
Instead, he evicts them from Frogmore, makes it clear Harry isn’t welcome at Balmoral, and hides away when Harry is in London for other events.
Now all that said…..despite the royalists and derangers, I think overall charles would score a big PR win if he was seen publicly with Harry, if he did with the Invictus athletes well, if he did make clear that Harry AND Meghan AND their children are welcome at family events.
I think for Charles next big shindig he should invite Joe Jonas to perform, they have so much in common, PR f#%k ups
Charles is a coward, afraid of his wife and afraid of his eldest son. IF he ever had a spine he lost it long ago. He waited until his mother was dead before he evicted Harry because HE KNEW how close Harry and the Queen were, he also knew how well megs and the Queen got on and enjoyed each others company, and he, along with his jealous eldest son couldn’t stand it. The Queen didn’t veto the half in half out, Charles and his lackeys did aided and abetted by his Palace henchmen. And as for the Queen, she was an enabler. She allowed Charles, Andrew and Edward to act the way they did, but I honestly think in the last few years of her life, she just gave up on it all, in her words “Charles will always do and say what he wants, no matter what I do, and if Charles had ever missed Harry or had a close relationship with him, he would have bloody well done something about it by now
Can a day go by without these people having to talk about Harry and Meghan? What is the point of these pointless, rehash stories? If they’re not important, stop talking about them, they aren’t talking about you.
Exactly, but if it was not Harry and Meghan it would have to be important discussions/oped pieces/stories that include phrases like “Britain in decline” and “Tories” in a sentence…..
It’s so pathetic. Becky English’s big column on the first anniversary of the Queen’s death was not at all about the Queen, it was framed as, “The feuding brothers are only 100 miles away from each other on the anniversary but have no plans to see each other!”
I mean, really? First of all, duh. We all know that William and Harry aren’t meeting up. But aside from the stupidity, why can’t they see how utterly pathetic it is that they need to make EVERY STORY include one of the Sussexes? This is the Fail’s “Royal Editor” (I think?) and she is incapable of reporting on this dull-ass family — on a milestone occasion for them, no less —without dragging Harry into it?
They go on and on about how much they revered the Queen, but nothing published today has actually been about HER.
Charles is a liar and a gaslighter. If he “misses” Harry so much, he should agree to see him or, better yet, make an effort to visit him in California. I hate crap fathers like this.
I am annoyed by the continued phrasing of the conflict as being between Harry and the entire royal family or the rest of the royal family or the royals. Harry is estranged from his brother and his father. That’s it. I know Edward, Sophie, Camilla, Andrew have chosen sides. That’s not the same thing. The root of the conflict is with William and Charles
Duly noted…
Charles is not an idiot – he’s enormously entitled, passive aggressive and stubborn as a mule. There’s no dilemma here – the only reason Charles hasn’t patched things up with Harry is because he doesn’t want to. The mood swings in the press are because nobody wants to admit this out loud.
Everything the royal family has done to the Sussexes in the UK-speaks volumes about what is in their hearts and minds-being hateful and spiteful towards the Sussexes on a daily basis-if King Charles has the power to make changes as it regards the Sussex family then why won’t he do it-his heart and mind is full hate and evil towards the Sussex family-he needs to stop sending his mouth pieces out to the UK media briefing against the Sussex family-keep his nose and business in the UK where it belongs-Harry has acted with respect for the UK and his grandparents-he did not cause a scene or say something improper-I truly respect his mind-set and stealth in getting things done-God bless the entire Sussex family.
Truth is Justice
I am a nonagenarian born in England in the reign of George V and remained a staunch monarchist until I witnessed the most deplorable and senseless action of the British monarchy following the death of the much-loved Elizabeth 11, namely the orchestrated attempt to destroy Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Only those who read the British tabloids will know the utterly relentless and outright filfth, lies and obfuscation that has been published and begin to understand why publications such as ‘Celebitchy’ have relevance.
Let me explain.
When Meghan and Harry first engaged in Royal duties they were praised around the world as a breath of fresh air for the stuffy and outdated monarchy ruled by strict medieval protocols. Meghan, a strong, and independent American woman of colour, was gracious, articulate and beautiful. She was much liked by the Queen and she and Harry publicly outshone William, the next in line to the throne, and his pretty but determinedly ambitious wife Kate Middleton.
The palace PR team decided this could not be allowed to continue since the future of the monarchy depended on William and Kate. Hence Harry and Meghan had to be quickly devalued at all cost.
Kate had a working-class background having been born in a council flat in Southall, London, and descended from Durham coal-mining stock. When she speaks, in her carefully modulated voice – coached by an Old Etonian nephew of the Duke of Richmond – Kate’s accent has become even more plummy than William’s and says all the right things whereas Meghan insisted on being herself, brought up as an individual with her own beliefs and choices and this was not acceptable to the Royals whose privileged family is said to be worth US$88 billion and immense lifestyle assets to protect. Yet Meghan’s bi-racial background articulation and strength would not only have modernised the monarchy but also would have diminished claims of racism against it and its’ historical association with slavery, strengthening Commonwealth ties that embrace 21 African countries.
A Television presenter, Jeremy Clarkson, known to have associated socially with Queen Camilla, wrote in his column for a tabloid, that he hated Markle on a “cellular level” and caused uproar after writing that he dreamt of the day when Meghan was “made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chant, ‘Shame!’ and throw lumps of excrement at her.”
Such is the disgusting character assassination she relentlessly endures from rusted-on monarchists and which I am grateful to ‘Celebitchy’ for opposing as should all fair-minded people who value independence and the freedom of choice.
It is so great to meet you and I got your nice note! Thank you for reading us and sharing your perspective as a 93-year-old. You are showing how older Britons don’t have to buy the lies fed to them by the tabloid press. We really appreciate you and hope you keep coming back.
Well thank you and yes , be assured, I am ‘on board’ as an ancient mariner. Your publication offers an all-too-rare cathartic opportunity for people who deplore the Royal Rota system that allows preferential leaking to chosen British newspapers from PR edited and often distorted information of events so that they conform to the chosen Royal narrative.
The Royal Rota intentionally curates a number of close and mutually beneficial relationships; includes circulation leaders, a number of which are owned by Rupert Murdoch whose vast empire includes The Wall Street Journal and New York Post
This deceptive and secretive method is in direct contradiction to the Royal protocol ‘Never complain; never explain’ which the Royal family hides behind to avoid direct questioning. This pithy maxim was first exploited by the British politician and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli. It allows carefully edited stories to be passed to the public through the Rota system by quoting ‘sources close to’, ‘Royal insiders’ ‘close friends’ etc and other un-named informants which the gullible majority of their millions of readers seem prepared to believe.
The latest epigram “recollections may vary” was coined by Queen Elizabeth 11’s reaction to the Duke and Duchess of Sussexes’ suggestions of racism in their now famous interview with Oprah and the blatantly racist question put by an, as yet, unnamed Royal to Meghan as to whether she had considered what colour the skin of her children would be.
How dare they relentlessly insult and try and destroy an outstanding and talented American woman of colour whose only ‘crime’ was to fall in love with and marry the King’s son and then have the courage to question archaic royal protocols. Happily Prince Harry shared her principles of freedom of spirit and anti-racism. which led to them leaving the Royal family. Readers should reject such interference and lofty dismissal of a proud and principled woman whose inclusion would have lifted the image of a family which has much to answer for in past associations with slavery.
The bodies and souls of enslaved people built Britain – those who toiled in cotton fields and plantations in British colonies, many of whom did not survive the ordeal and whose true suffering remains shrouded in history.