The Queen has reportedly taken Prince Harry’s recent comments about “genetic pain and suffering” and Prince Charles’ approach to parenting “very personally” during what is already a very difficult time.
- The Queen is supposedly “deeply upset” by Prince Harry’s shocking remarks about life in the Royal Family and his father Prince Charles.
- In his recent podcast appearance, the Duke of Sussex seemed to suggest that Prince Charles’ upbringing had influenced his own childhood “pain”.
- In other royal news, Prince Harry reveals why Archie's first words were 'really sad' for him in his new docuseries.
The Queen is said to be "deeply upset" at Prince Harry’s recent comments about his life in the Royal Family and Prince Charles’ parenting. Prince Harry and Meghan’s shocking “tell-all” Oprah interview earlier this year has already led to rumors of tension between the couple and the royals. Though it's Harry's appearance on actor Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast that has once again got people talking.
Here he spoke out about “genetic pain and suffering” that he feels was being “passed on” in the Royal Family. He also explained that he wanted to “break that cycle” of pain for his own children, with his and Meghan’s second child due later this year.
Reflecting on parenting in the Royal Family, Harry went on to discuss his father Prince Charles’ upbringing, declaring: "I started to piece it together and go 'Okay, so this is where he went to school, this is what happened, I know this about his life, I also know that is connected to his parents so that means he's treated me the way he was treated, so how can I change that for my own kids?'"
Some have viewed this as an apparent criticizim of not only the Prince of Wales’ parenting, but of the Queen and Prince Philip’s too. Following this interview, Prince Charles has been questioned over Prince Harry’s comments about the Royal Family. Now it’s been suggested that the Queen has taken them “very personally” at what is already a difficult time following Prince Philip’s death.
According to The Mail on Sunday, one source alleged: “Harry’s grandmother has taken this very personally and is deeply upset by what Harry has said, in particular his comments about Charles’s parenting and suggesting his father knows no better because of how he was brought up. It has been a very upsetting time.”
Whilst Prince Harry’s podcast remarks left many royal fans shocked, he has now also gone on to discuss his father’s parenting in his new Apple TV+ docuseries, The Me You Can’t See.
“My father used to say to me when I was younger, ‘Well, it was like that for me, so it’s going to be like that for you’,” he claimed.
However, despite this astonishing revelation, it seems that Prince Charles remains hopeful that he and his youngest son will be able to grow close again in the future and will not be looking to distance himself from Harry.
“I don’t think the Prince will cut his son off despite what Harry has said,” one friend explained to The Mail on Sunday.
“Charles is such a gentle man and a dedicated father first and foremost. He’ll be feeling wretched. He wants to seek a reconciliation. He is not vindictive at all”, they added.
