Prince Harry is in contact with his father, Prince Charles and his older brother, Prince William, for the first time since his and Meghan’s Innovative interview with Oprah Winfrey earlier this month, “CBS This Morning” co-host Gayle King said on Tuesday.
Those talks were not productive, the couple told King over the weekend.
However, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex said they were happy to have started a dialogue with the royal family and that they want the family to be healed.
King said the family still needs to speak to Meghan after the two-hour interview.
Harry told Winfrey that he had a difficult relationship with his father after his and Meghan’s decision to Step back their roles as senior royalty in early 2020.
“When we were in Canada, I had three conversations with my grandmother and two conversations with my father,” he said, adding “before I stopped taking my calls.”
Although the duke said that he has since spoken to his father again, he felt “disappointed” by him, given Charles’s own previous experience with Harry’s late mother, Princess Diana, and its relationship with the UK tabloids.
The prince would have been “upset” and “upset” at hearing what his youngest son said, and ignored a reporter’s question about it the day after the interview aired in Britain.
As for Prince William, who is second in line to the throne, Harry classified his current relationship as “space”.
Through the interview, Meghan also contested a previous claim that William’s wife, Kate, made Meghan cry days before their wedding – saying the reality was the other way around.
She and Harry also compared Meghan’s harsh treatment for UK tabloids to Kate’s, stating that racism played a role in covering the Duchess of Sussex. They accused the palace of not defending it as they did the Duchess of Cambridge.
Prince William told reporters royalty was “not much of a racist family” after the interview. Buckingham Palace released a statement calling the couple’s claims, particularly those of race, “concerning”.
“I think what still worries them is that the palace continues to say that they want to resolve the matter in particular, but even so, false stories are emerging that disparage Meghan,” said King.
Shortly before the interview, it was revealed that Buckingham Palace is also investigating allegations of bullying made against Meghan by royal aides. The palace hired an outside law firm to examine the claims.
King said the couple “will not be part of this investigation themselves”.
However, the co-host of “CBS This Morning” said that Harry and Meghan expect a less contentious relationship with the prince’s relatives.
“They both want to move forward with this and they both want this family to heal,” said King.