Prince Harry and Prince William are ‘back in touch’
Prince William and Prince Harry are said to be taking tentative steps to mend their fractured relationship as a new report says the Duke of Sussex is feeling “rudderless” with his new life in LA.
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The reported rift between Prince William and Prince Harry could be over and the brothers are finally “back in touch”.
It comes as a new report in Vanity Fair said Prince Harry was feeling “rudderless” and missing his military mates after his and Meghan Markle’s move to California.
According to a royal expert, the brothers reconnected during Prince Charles’ recent bout of coronavirus, and are making tentative steps to mend their relationship.
“There have been clearly some quite major rifts in that relationship, but things have got better and I know that William and Harry are in touch on the phone,” royal expert Katie Nicholl told Entertainment Tonight in the US.
“They have done video calls together, they have done a lot of family birthdays and I think with Prince Charles not being well, that really forced the brothers to pick up the phone and get back in touch.”
The princes’ father Prince Charles, 71, recently fought off coronavirus, and between that health scare and Prince Harry feeling homesick after his move, the royals felt it was the “right time” to reconnect, Nicoll told ET.
Similarly, the tension between Meghan Markle and Prince William’s wife Kate Middleton has simmered down.
“I think there is a sense of relief on both sides that this high drama is now a thing of the past,” Nicholl said.
“The Sussexes are free to get on with their new lives [and] the Cambridges can get back to their old lives without all the upset and drama that was clearly a big deal behind the scenes. I think Kate and William miss Harry and Meghan to a degree, but certainly they miss Harry [being] around and part of their lives.”
Nicholl told ET that the royal clan likely reunited — albeit virtually — to celebrate the first birthday of Archie, Harry and Markle’s son.
“I am quite sure there would have been communication between the Cambridges and the Prince of Wales and I am told Harry picks up the phone regularly to his grandmother, the queen,” the expert noted. “They had that same call on her birthday. I’m sure there was a Zoom birthday call for Archie, too.”
It comes as a new report in Vanity Fair said Prince Harry was feeling “rudderless” and missing his military mates after his and Meghan Markle’s move to California.
“He has a lot of friends in the military community in the UK and of course he misses them. This is a very strange time for us all, but I think Harry is missing having a structure to his life right now. He doesn’t have friends in L.A. like Meghan and he doesn’t have a job,” a source reportedly told Vanity Fair.
“So at the moment he’s a bit rudderless, but it won’t always be like this, and he knows that.”
While the couple are working on their new not-for-profit organisation Archewell, Prince Harry will continue to oversee the Invictus Games, the sporting event he founded for wounded injured or sick service men and women.
Royal expert Nicholl said that for Prince Harry, continuing the charity work he was rumoured to have left behind has been helpful in combating his reported homesickness.
“The idea that they would just go over to America and forget about these charities and organisations — particularly in Harry’s case [when] they’ve been a part of his life for so long — that’s absolutely not the case,” the expert told ET.
“Harry keeps in touch with them regularly. He probably misses some of the people that he works with. He’s been patron of charities like WellChild for many, many years [so] he’s forged close friendships there, so yes — he’s missing his friends and picking up the phone for them.”
Due to the coronavirus outbreak, travel has been limited, so Harry and Meghan have become very well acquainted with video chatting and the like, which Nicholl said will be helpful to them in the future.
“[For] Meghan and Harry, this will be the way of the future,” she said. “They will not be jumping on a plane all the time to come to Britain. COVID has given them the opportunity to road test a way of working. These conference calls [are] a way for them to communicate and touch base with people back at home. I think COVID-19 has fast-tracked what was always going to be a future way of working for them, being so far away from many of their charities.”
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The global pandemic hasn’t just affected Harry and Meghan’s work, however, but the entire royal family, with rumours circulating that Queen Elizabeth II will postpone her return from Windsor Castle to Buckingham Palace for the summer.
The Queen will also be absent from public life indefinitely until the coronavirus situation has stabilised.
Originally published as Prince Harry and Prince William are ‘back in touch’