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There has been hurt on both sides since Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, stepped away from the royal family in 2020. Senior royals expressed their ...

really what they're doing is blocking a grandson from seeing his grandmother," the duchess said. "I will speak truth with the words that come out of my mouth, rather than using … One clear message in Prince Harry's memoir is that there is a "deep love" between the father and his "darling boy", but it is one that is plagued by an underlying tension between the institution and family. "[Charles] has been put in an invidious position because he has to handle the situation as both monarch and head of the Firm, and as a father to an estranged and unhappy son," Dr Bastin said. For now, he may feel the blowback is worth it in order to present his own story independently of the UK tabloid press of which he is so critical. In the all-out narrative war between the palace and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, "Don't forget, the British royal family is there by consent, they need to earn and keep the respect of the British public," Valentine Low, a journalist and the author of Courtiers: Intrigue, Ambition and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor, "Harry's taken a leaf out of his mother's book by going on the record to make public declarations about fault lines that exist in the royal institution and, as with the Oprah interview, it won't make him any friends within the royal system." In speaking out, Prince Harry has taken a deliberate step away from his family members and followed in the footsteps of his mother, breaking long-held palace taboos. Royal correspondents concluded the palace and the rest of the royal family were His statements about the palace and its aides still carry the weight of a prince who once belonged in the Windsors' inner circle. "Harry's public denouncements will add a layer of unwelcome stress to a period when the new sovereign is establishing his position in the public's imagination," she said.