Royal sources say King Charles faces growing pressure to repair his strained relationship with Prince Harry, but trust remains a major obstacle.
“[King Charles] could give a master class in diplomatic relations,” Ailsa Anderson, former press secretary to Queen Elizabeth, recently told PEOPLE.
That said, many hopeful royal family watchers want the monarch to use those diplomatic skills and reach out to Harry to attempt to reconcile.
“I don’t know how much longer my father has… He won’t speak to me,” Harry revealed to the BBC back in May.
According to royal historian Dr. Ed Owens, author of After Elizabeth: Can the Monarchy Save Itself?, Harry was anticipated to be “one of his reliable lieutenants he could call on to support the monarchy.”
Of course, that hope fell apart in 2020 when Ha