Prince Harry: I love my family and my father’s cancer diagnosis could bring us together

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King Charles’s cancer diagnosis could assist to heal rifts and reunify the royal family, Prince Harry has mentioned as he revealed that he was “grateful” to spend time together with his father final week.

In an interview set to air within the US on Friday, the Duke of Sussex will open up about his father’s diagnosis and life in California together with his spouse Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and their kids.

“Yeah, I’m sure,” he advised ABC’s Good Morning America present when requested if the King’s sickness could assist heal the family.

Buckingham Palace despatched shockwaves by means of the UK and the world when it introduced earlier this month that the monarch had an unspecified type of cancer.

Medics discovered the illness whereas the King underwent therapy for an enlarged prostate, which officers described as “benign” and unconnected to the cancer.

The dire information prompted Harry to sprint house from the States to see his father, who has stepped again from public-facing duties whereas he receives therapy.

The go to fuelled hypothesis that Harry could start to restore relations together with his father and brother William, the Prince of Wales, which have grow to be strained after Harry and Meghan stepped again from their duties as “working royals”.

But the prince was mentioned to have solely spent round half-hour with Charles on the King’s Clarence House residence and didn’t see his brother William in any respect.

But Harry, who mentioned he deliberate to go to the UK extra after his father’s diagnosis and that he “loved” his family, appeared to go away open the door for reconciliation.

“I think any illness, any sickness, brings families together,” he mentioned. “I see it time and time again, and that makes me very happy.”

The duke mentioned he and Meghan’s kids have been doing “great” and rising up “very fast”.

He additionally mentioned that getting American citizenship was one thing that had crossed his thoughts however was not a excessive precedence “for me right now”.

The Sussexes are in Canada staging a number of occasions with Invictus opponents to mark a yr to go till Harry’s Invictus Games, for wounded and sick veterans and navy, is staged within the nation.

They are being adopted by a movie crew led by Will Reeve, the son of the late Superman star Christopher Reeve, who interviewed Harry within the winter sports activities city of Whistler, which is internet hosting the 2025 Invictus Games alongside Vancouver.

The breakdown within the bond between the royal brothers could be traced again to the early interval of Harry’s relationship with spouse Meghan when his then-fiancee had a falling out with the Princess of Wales within the run-up to their marriage ceremony.

The Sussexes, since stepping down as working royals in 2020 and shifting to California, have aired allegations and grievances towards the monarchy and members of the royal family which have additionally soured relations.

Meghan and Harry are mentioning their two kids, Prince Archie, aged 4, and two-year-old Princess Lilibet within the celeb enclave of Montecito in California.