Prince Harry has a lot of hope riding on the new security review that the Royal and VIP Executive Committee (RAVEC) has launched, after a near miss happened related to a well known stalker of the Duke of Sussex.
However, with questions about Meghan Markle joining the UK return, alongside Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet royal biographer Christopher Andersen has a lot to say.
He spoke of his thoughts related to Prince Harry’s apparent isolation in the US, while in a chat with Us Weekly.
His chat referenced Prince Harry’s old BBC interview where he talked about missing friends, and even having lost friends, as well as Christmas traditions from the other side of the pond.
In his own words at the time he said that he missed the “family gatherings when we’re all sort of brought together under one roof for certain times of the year. That I miss.”
With that admission having tugged at heartstrings when it aired, the biographer said, “does it pain Harry to be pointedly excluded from times when the royal family gets together, like Christmas at Sandringham? Of course it does.”
Because “Harry has always said the door remains open to some sort of relationship with the royal family.”
Furthermore, while Meghan seems ‘focused’ on their life in Montecito, Prince Harry on the other hand looks as though he’s “holding out hope that he can eventually divide his time” between California and the U.K.
While he made it clear that “on one level, Harry is content in California” there is the fact that “neither he nor his children [Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet] are sharing in their royal heritage,” which the biographer goes as far as to brand a ‘regret’ of the royal.
In the same interview quoted earlier the spare even confirmed the authors claims because he said, “The things that [my kids are] going to miss is, well, everything. I love my country, I always have. I think that it’s really quite sad that I won’t be able to show my children my homeland.”
What is pertinent to mention is that the fear of not showing his children his homeland was during the days he had lost his case for taxpayer-funded security against the Home Office.
But, that is not to say he is living a totally separate life in the US, because according to a well-placed insider, “several [friends] remain in touch, and Harry is immensely grateful for their loyalty” despite some having “dropped off” with time or circumstance.
The biographer came back around, later to conclude his chat and said that Prince Harry clearly “wants Archie and Lilibet to get to know their British relatives, especially their grandfather,” and even “their cousins, but he can’t make that happen unilaterally.”
For now its said that they are learning about Britain in ‘small doses’, but as Mr Andersen puts it, “but make no mistake, they’re growing up Californians.”