
As the country has been left reeling after the news of the King’s cancer diagnosis, there was a (very) faint glimmer of hope on the horizon: namely, that there could be a thawing of relations between Charles and his youngest son.
As soon as the news broke, the Duke of Sussex was seen hopping on the first plane out of LAX, rushing to be by his father’s side. Could this suggest there might finally be a reconciliation of sorts between Harry and his dear Pa? Alas, any hopes of that were swiftly dashed. Because while some noted that the gesture was appreciated by the King, other sources told Charles’s biographer Robert Jobson that Harry actually caused “some disquiet by ‘taking it upon himself’ to fly over unbidden”.