Prince Harry recently broke a “cardinal rule” in the lead up to last week’s secret peace talks between his communications team and King Charles’s press rep, as per a royal expert via NY Post.
Royal commentator Charlotte Griffiths asserts that the Duke of Sussex violated a fundamental royal protocol by publicly discussing private matters related to his estranged family.
After Harry revealed sensitive family issues on multiple public platforms—including the sensational 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, his and Meghan Markle’s tell-all Netflix series, and his memoir “Spare”—Griffiths suggests that the king is now very cautious when interacting with his youngest son.
“I think he would be willing to meet his demands and it is a pretty simple demand, it is ‘if I talk to you, can it not leak out on Oprah Winfrey or any other program?’” Griffiths said of the king’s requirements for any future communication with the exiled royal.
“Harry really wants reconciliation and to be able to freely speak to his father, at the moment he cannot get through to his father, he has to go through his aides.”
“What will definitely happen is some ground rules for communications. What Harry cannot do is repeat what goes on in private conversations,” she added.
During an interview with the BBC in May, Harry stated that he would “love a reconciliation” with his cancer-stricken father — but alluded to his health being far worse than His Majesty has let on.
“I don’t know how much longer my father has,” Harry told the outlet, claiming the king “won’t speak” to him.
As per Griffiths, Harry’s choice of words weren’t received well at Buckingham Palace.
“Harry said ‘we don’t know how much time my father has left’ and that went down extremely badly, that’s why this story is so surprising,” she said. “He broke the cardinal rule which was speculating on the king’s health.”
The Invictus Games founder’s fueling of public speculation about his ailing father was a clear violation of royal protocol, Griffiths adds.
