King Charles Restoring Prince Harry's Security Protection Is Reportedly Key To Fixing Family Rift

Prince Harry will reportedly mend his broken relationship with the royal family if they help clear out one major hurdle in his life.

Insiders believe Harry's security issue in the UK is a bone of contention, and if his father, King Charles III, can help restore it, then maybe the Duke of Sussex will consider a reconciliation with him.

Prince Harry became estranged from his family after he and his wife, Meghan Markle, quit their royal roles to go live abroad and subsequently made damaging allegations against the firm.

There have been reports of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex wanting to reunite with the royal family after King Charles and Kate Middleton's cancer diagnosis was revealed earlier this year.

Several royal experts have shared that the chances of a reunion between them were near impossible because of the damage they caused in their 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey and Harry's memoir, "Spare."

However, according to a new report, there may be a glimmer of hope for a reconciliation between Harry and his estranged relatives. However, it will require a potentially tricky compromise from the king.

"King Charles can give Harry the security clearance he wants so desperately. As the monarch, he is the ultimate decision-maker. That would be how father and son can reconcile," a royal insider told Page Six.

While the king might be willing to help out his second son, another source told the news outlet that the heir apparent, Prince William, is still not ready to mend things with his brother, Harry, due to claims the duke made in his memoir.

These claims include that William physically assaulted him during a confrontation over Meghan and that the Prince and Princess of Wales were the ones who encouraged the duke to wear a Nazi outfit for a costume party.

Harry visited his home country earlier this year to see his father upon news of his cancer diagnosis, as well as for the 10th-anniversary celebration of the Invictus Games.

However, neither Meghan nor their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, have been able to make the trip across the pond because of their security concerns. The last time the duchess touched UK soil was in 2022, for Queen Elizabeth II's funeral.

The couple was stripped of their taxpayer-funded security following their departure from their senior royal duties by the Royal and VIP Executive Committee (Ravec).

Although Harry has been fighting for his security protection to be reinstated, he is not ready to take chances by visiting the UK with his family, as it remains unclear how long his legal battle with the Home Office will take.

In a recent ITV documentary, "Tabloids on Trial," which aired in the UK on Thursday, Harry disclosed precisely why he'll not bring Meghan and their children to the UK.

"It's still dangerous, and all it takes is one lone actor, one person who reads this stuff to act on what they have read," he said.

Harry added, "And whether it's a knife or acid, whatever it is, and these are things that are of genuine concern for me. It's one of the reasons why I won't bring my wife back to this country."

In 2022, Neil Basu, the former counterterrorism chief for the Metropolitan Police, reportedly confirmed that there were credible threats to Meghan's life during her time in the UK.

"We had teams investigating it. People have been prosecuted for those threats," Basu noted at the time, seemingly corroborating Harry and Meghan's fears.

Harry's security issue is just one of many concerns preventing him from fully embracing a return to the UK for himself and his family.

In the ITV documentary, he also referenced his battle with British tabloids as a "central piece" in his broken relationship with the royal family.

The Duke of Sussex has been embroiled in several lawsuits against different UK news outlets, including a December 2023 suit where a judge ruled that the Mirror Group Newspapers hacked his phone "to a modest extent," as well as his ongoing cases against the publishers of The Mail and The Sun.

"They pushed me too far," he said of his claimed fallout with the media. "It got to a point where you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. But I don't think there's anybody in the world better suited and placed to be able to see this through than myself."

He added that there's "more than enough attention on me and my wife anyway."

With the duke's 40th birthday coming up in September, Harry may likely be without the company of his wife as he prepares to travel to his homeland for a lengthy period without her.

The Duke of Sussex is understood to have "prioritized mending his broken relationship with his family" and would be without Meghan, who is said to be tied down with work amid the launch of her American Riviera Orchard lifestyle brand.

Meghan last visited the UK in 2022 and is reportedly wary of returning for fear of being "heckled again in public" after she and Harry were booed at the late Queen's platinum jubilee.

"Harry is very anxious to go home and see his dad, catch up with his friends for his birthday in September, and also pay a visit to his aunt, Princess Anne," a source told Closer. "But the situation hasn't changed for Meghan."

The insider continued, "She's respectful that Harry has to go back to his homeland for practical and emotional reasons, but that doesn't mean she's going to go with him. She's got way too much on her plate with the brand and her new cooking show, as well as looking after the children. The last thing she needs is the stress of going back to the UK, where she fears she'd be heckled again in public, which she finds really painful."