London, Oct 20. (Press Association/dpa/GNA) – Prince Harry has said he wants his disagreements with his brother and father, King Charles III, to “work out.”
His comments were published as Charles, Queen Camilla, Prince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales welcomed the Sultan of Oman to Windsor for his state visit to the United Kingdom.
In an interview with GQ magazine about grief and family, recorded in late September and shared on Tuesday, Harry was asked if he grieves his “complicated” relationship with his father and brother. “Yeah, yes, of course, from a family perspective, again another massively relatable issue for so many people. There’s sibling disagreements, there’s broken relationships between, you know, kids and their parents, kids and one parent. That continues to come up with me the whole time by people that I speak to, so I know how relatable it is,” Harry said.
“That’s partly probably why there’s so much fascination…,” he said. “Then people maybe look at us and go, ‘how are you going to work it out?’ And then ‘maybe how I see you’re going to work it out, maybe that will help me work my stuff out.’ And some people don’t want it to work out – I want it to work out.” “Of course I do. With everything else that’s going on in the world, the most important thing is to reconcile – that’s the key point,” he said.
Harry was asked if he thinks he could repair “this wound.” “Yeah of course, I think every wound… look, scars stick around forever but… what your perception is and what your mindset is to these things that have happened, certainly letting go of the past, that’s something that I would encourage everybody to do. If there’s certain things from the past that’s still affecting your everyday, that’s harder to let go of. But yeah, for me, there’s enough drama in the world and enough drama in people’s lives than to continue with issues with family…” he said.
“It’s not worth it?” the interviewer interjected. “That’s hard to say to people when you’re in it,” Harry said.
The Oman state visit is the first incoming state visit since Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, returned to the UK, but Harry and Meghan, who are not working royals, do not take part in official royal engagements.
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