LONDON — “Sometimes, when forced to consider one’s mortality, very positive things happen.” Harry doesn’t seem to have hesitated. Yesterday evening, he left the Montecito house where he lives with his wife Meghan and their children Archie and Lilibet, and after an 11-hour flight, arrived in London.
Faced with the emergency, it’s as if nothing else matters. While the possibility of full reconciliation is currently only a hypothesis, the prince’s immediate arrival is very different from his behavior at the coronation last May, when he had shown up at the last moment and quietly, was placed in the third row, and had immediately left after the ceremony, without even attending the toast at Buckingham Palace. Some see a greater seriousness in Harry’s swift arrival, related to the king’s condition, compared to what was indicated in the Buckingham Palace statement.
While Prime Minister Rishi Sunak emphasized that Charles’s cancer was discovered “early,” the fact that the king started therapy on Monday — presumably chemotherapy or radiotherapy — confirms that the medical team doesn’t want to waste time. Perhaps, then, it’s time for Harry to forget the wrongs listed in the autobiography “The Junior” — the failure to defend Meghan from hostile press, questions about Archie’s skin color, lack of attention to the mental health of the Sussexes before their move to California, his emotional loneliness during the trauma of losing his mother, always being less important than his brother William — and for Charles, the time to embrace his son again. Reconnecting with Charles will be easier than reconciling with William: the two brothers haven’t spoken for a long time.
But in the face of a sick father, many disagreements evaporate. *Corriere della Sera is also on Whatsapp. Just click here to subscribe to the channel and stay updated.
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6th February 2024 (modified on 6th February 2024 | 14:57)
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