Prince Harry has been in contact with his father, Prince Charles, and his older brother, Prince William, for the first time since his and Meghan’s. groundbreaking interview with Oprah Winfrey Earlier this month, Gayle King, co-host of CBS This Morning, said Tuesday.
Those conversations were not productive, the couple told King this 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 has not reached Meghan after the two-hour interview.
Harry had told Winfrey that he had a troubled relationship with his father after his and Meghan’s decision step back from their role as senior royals in early 2020.
“While we were in Canada, I had three talks with my grandmother and two talks with my dad,” he said, adding “before he stopped taking my calls.”
While the Duke said he has since gone back to talking to his father, he felt “abandoned” by him given Charles’ own past experiences with Harry’s late mother, princess Diana, and her relationship with the British tabloids.
The prince was reportedly “upset” and “cut to pieces” to hear what his youngest son was saying, and ignored a reporter’s question the day after the interview aired in Britain.
As for Prince William, who is second to the throne, Harry categorized their current relationship as ‘space’.
During the interview, Meghan also challenged an earlier claim that William’s wife, Kate, made Meghan cry within days of her wedding – stating that the reality was the other way around.
She and Harry also compared Meghan’s harsh treatment by British gossip magazines to Kate’s, and stated that racism played a role in the coverage of the Duchess of Sussex. They accused the palace of not defending her like the Duchess of Cambridge.
prince william told reporters the royal family was “no racist family at all” after the interview. Buckingham Palace released a statement calling the couple’s allegations, particularly those of race, “worrisome.”
“I think what still upsets them is that the palace keeps saying they want to fix it privately, yet the false stories are coming out that are still belittling Meghan,” said King.
Shortly before the interview, it was revealed that Buckingham Palace is also investigating allegations of bullying against Meghan by royal aides. The palace has hired an outside law firm to investigate the claims.
King said the couple “themselves will not be part of that investigation.”
However, the CBS This Morning co-host said Harry and Meghan are hoping for a less controversial relationship with the prince’s relatives.
“They both want to go on with this and they both want a cure in this family,” said King.