Prince Harry will rush home to the UK after Charles cancer diagnosis

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The Duke of Sussex has spoken with King Charles III about his cancer diagnosis and will journey to the UK to see him in the coming days, a supply shut to Prince Harry has stated.

Buckingham Palace revealed in an announcement on Monday that the monarch had been identified with cancer. They declined to disclose the sort of cancer.

After the announcement, a supply shut to Harry stated: “The duke did speak with his father about his diagnosis. He will be traveling to the UK to see His Majesty in the coming days.”

A supply advised Page Six that Harry had been saved up to date on the well being of his father after King Charles was identified with a benign however enlarged prostate. The supply added that Harry will journey to Windsor Castle in the subsequent few days to see his father.

It just isn’t but identified whether or not Harry’s spouse, Meghan Markle, will fly again to the UK with the prince. Nor is it clear whether or not the couple’s two kids, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, will be returning to the UK. The couple are but to make a public assertion.

An announcement from the palace learn: “During the King’s recent hospital procedure for benign prostate enlargement, a separate issue of concern was noted. Subsequent diagnostic tests have identified a form of cancer.

“His Majesty has today commenced a schedule of regular treatments, during which time he has been advised by doctors to postpone public-facing duties.”

The final time Harry returned to the UK was in September final yr to attend the annual WellChild Awards, a charity he has been patron of for 15 years. But the prince didn’t see King Charles. A palace supply advised MailOnline that the monarch had “no time in the diary” to see his son.

It was understood that Harry was additionally not invited to the royal household’s annual summer season get-together at Balmoral Castle earlier in the yr.

He had already handed again the keys to Frogmore Cottage in Windsor. It is unclear the place he will keep when he returns to the property later this week.

When Harry attended his father’s coronation, months earlier than in May, he left London simply hours after the ceremony.

He didn’t have a proper position at the ceremony and didn’t work together with Charles or William at the occasion.

The King and his son have had a fractured relationship ever since Harry and Meghan stepped again from royal duties in 2020.

In Harry’s memoir Spare, launched in January final yr, the 39-year-old claimed that Charles had all the time been distant and that they have been by no means shut.

The royal alleged that the King was poor at exhibiting feelings and claimed Charles didn’t hug him when he advised Harry that his mom, Princess Diana, had died in a automobile crash.

“He wasn’t great at showing emotions under normal circumstances, how could he be expected to show them in such a crisis?” Harry wrote in his guide.

More not too long ago, feedback from each Harry and the monarch recommend they’re in search of to reform their relationship – however seem not to have had any critical affect.

Speaking to ITV’s Tom Bradby in January 2023 to promote his memoir, Harry stated he needed his father again in his life.

“I would like to get my father back. I would like to have my brother back,” Harry stated.

After ascending to the throne a couple of months earlier, King Charles talked about his “love for Harry and Meghan” in his first speech as monarch.

Former BBC Royal correspondent Jennie Bond instructed the King’s cancer diagnosis might reunite the pair.

She advised Sky News: “Harry is coming back. I mean, maybe that’s a blessing in disguise. Maybe finally, finally, his father’s illness will bring a reconciliation that we have all been talking about for what seems like forever.”