LONDON — Eleven hours of airtime for 45 minutes together. When he found out about his father’s illness, Harry took the first plane and joined him. After three quarters of an hour, the prince left just before Charles and Camilla emerged from Clarence House in a car. “Sometimes, when you are forced to consider your own mortality, very positive things happen,” emphasized Lord Michael Dobbs, writer, author of the novel House of Cards, and close friend of the king, who does not rule out that Charles’s illness could be an opportunity to heal the painful rift with Harry.
Some have interpreted the speed with which Harry reached his father as indicating a greater severity in the king’s condition than indicated by Buckingham Palace. In London in September for a commitment with a charity, Harry had not seen either his father or his brother. The prince had asked to stay in Windsor to visit his grandmother’s grave, but apparently he had been refused, so he had stayed in a hotel. Archie and Lilibet had recorded a video with well-wishes for their grandfather, and the conversation was, it is learned, “warm and affectionate.”
Faced with a sick father, however, many disagreements evaporate. For now, the heir to the throne’s entourage has stated that no meetings have been planned. *Corriere della Sera is also on Whatsapp. Just click here to subscribe to the channel and stay updated.
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