A former royal butler has shared Prince Harry’s potential plans to go to Balmoral for a reunion along with his estranged father when he returns to UK shores subsequent week
A former royal butler has shared Prince Harry’s potential plans to reunite along with his dad when he returns to UK shores subsequent week.
Grant Harrold, who labored for the Royal Household at Highgrove between 2004 and 2011, spoke candidly at his e book launch of the rumoured reunion between Prince Harry and his estranged father King Charles when the Duke of Sussex returns to England subsequent week for the WellChild Awards.
The charity occasion falls on September 8, which can be the third anniversary of the dying of Queen Elizabeth, leaving many questioning if Harry will make the journey to Scotland – the place King Charles can be – whereas on his journey to the UK.
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Based on the previous royal butler, Prince Harry might journey to Balmoral if time permits, to honour his late grandmother and to relive among the blissful recollections he has of the royal residence.
“I feel Harry would most likely like to spend time at Balmoral. That is simply my view,” he advised GB Information at his e book launch on Monday. “I feel he would like to go up there and be on the farm in his component. I simply don’t know with all the pieces that’s gone on, as a result of it could possibly be awkward.”
Prince Harry has lengthy spoken of his fondness of Balmoral, revealing a few of his most healthful childhood recollections of the Scottish Highlands property in his 2023 memoir Spare.
“To me, Balmoral was at all times merely Paradise,” he wrote in his autobiography. “A cross between Disney World and a few sacred Druid grove. I used to be at all times too busy fishing, capturing, operating up and down ‘the hill’ to note something off in regards to the Feng Shui of the outdated fortress,” he continued, referring to legends in regards to the residence.
“What I am making an attempt to say is, I used to be blissful there,” he wrote. “The truth is, it is doable that I used to be by no means happier.”
Regardless of Harry’s love for Balmoral, because the WellChild Awards fall on the identical day because the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s dying, Jennie Bond advised the Mirror that the scheduling battle might impression Harry’s availability to journey to Scotland.
The previous BBC royal correspondent stated: “We now have all grow to be fairly used to Harry coming and going with out seeing his household. His visits are typically extraordinarily temporary and the King is normally up in Scotland for the anniversary of his mom‘s dying. So arranging a gathering will not be easy.”
Whereas Harry’s plans to journey to Balmoral are nonetheless up within the air, Grant Harrold stated that regardless of the place they meet, he’s sure Charles is trying to reunite along with his son for the primary time in over a yr.
He advised GB Information: “I do know what the King’s like, he likes everybody to be blissful. He likes everybody to get on. So you possibly can assure the King with out query desires it resolved. Even when it doesn’t imply Harry comes again into the Royal Household how he was once, I feel the King will need some kind of peaceable decision.”
Final week, the Mirror completely reported that Harry is poised to see his father for the primary time in 20 months when he returns to Britain – though Prince William has rejected any reconciliation along with his brother.
The thawing of relations between the Duke of Sussex and the monarch comes after an off-the-cuff peace summit with Buckingham Palace officers.
