According to a book, King Charles was not speaking to Prince Harry when Prince Archie was born. A royal photographer claimed that Queen Camilla saw Archie’s pictures and asked him to show them to the monarch. However, King Charles’ secretary refused, citing the tensions between the monarch and Harry.
Arthur Edwards recalls a tense moment involving Charles and newborn Archie
In the book, Cup of Tea, Arthur?, royal photographer Arthur Edwards shared details about Charles and Harry’s severed relationship during Archie’s birth.
He wrote, “When my phone pinged, I showed Camilla pictures of little Archie HarrisonMountbatten-Windsor in his parents’ arms and got a photo of her looking at the latest royal grandchild on my screen. Camilla said, ‘Can you show it to the prince?'”
Edwards revealed that when Archie was born, King Charles was on a tour of Germany. At the time, he connected with his press secretary, Julian Payne, who requested that he not show the pictures to the monarch. “He’s not talking to his son,” Payne said. Edwards mentioned that this was the first time he learned of acrimony between the duo (via The News International).
This comes a few days after the Duke of Sussex expressed his intent to make things right with King Charles and Prince William during a GQ interview. He said he feels sorrow over his strained bond with his close ones.
“I think from a family perspective — again, another massively relatable issue for so many people — sibling disagreements, broken relationships between kids and their parents, kids and one parent. That continues to come up with me the whole time with people that I speak to, so I know how relatable it is,” he added.
Prince Harry mentioned that some people don’t want the tensions between him and his loved ones to ease. However, this doesn’t seem to be the case for him, as he remains determined to make progress.
