Terri Terri
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I am of the opinion that the fractured relationship between Meghan and her father may make Harry appreciate and value his relationship with his father more.
Anyway, back to the relationships between father and son......Just because family members don't spend a lot of time together - or don't always see eye to eye - doesn't mean they (a) don't love each other and (b) are feuding.
Hmm, last year Harry and Meghan spent time at Birkhall with Charles and Camilla and the Castle of Mey this summer. You don't go out of your way to spend time in isolated places in the company of people you dislike!. . . . . Anyway, back to the relationships between father and son......Just because family members don't spend a lot of time together - or don't always see eye to eye - doesn't mean they (a) don't love each other and (b) are feuding.
Just because they are not seen together publicly does not mean that Charles and his children do not spend time together. We have no idea of the number of times they may meet casually at CH or KP or Highgrove or Windsor or BP without the prying eyes of the media. This is precisely why I tend not to believe most of what is mentioned in the Press about the intra-family relationships. The fact is, few outside the inner BRF actually know what the dynamic actually is.
I don't know what to believe or what not. I read in an article that apparently Beatrice and Eugenie doesn't get along with Kate
They are hardly going to show dislike at a public event...When we see them together they appear to get along just fine. I wouldn't believe tabloids.
LaRae
And of course we see the same kind of 'leaked info.' that BP and CH are feuding - which translates to their respective staffs are feuding, not the actual Royals. The impression I get is that staff comes up with their notion of how it should go, William may not agree and says so, and his father and/or the Queen back William to the chagrin of staff.Charles and his sons certainly have different approaches to doing royal business and seem to have given their offices at CH and KP different marching orders in regards to scheduling/selecting events and press relations. It seems it would be entirely normal for a Dad to sometimes grumble “I don’t know why they do that” to staff about decisions his kids make that he would not regarding the “family business.” And perhaps the staff of CH and KP feel tension between the two approaches (very likely they would feel it more keenly than their bosses, since they are the ones tasked with coordinating details between offices when applicable) in ways that royal reporters pick up on.
BUT that doesn’t mean Charles and his sons don’t get along. It doesn’t mean they don’t respect each others’ work. It certainly doesn’t mean they don’t love each other or enjoy each others’ company.
Once again, it just shows that media (even Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan) has absolutely no clue about how the BRF does things, which palace is associated with which royals among a lot of other misconceptions they may have.
No one does their homework anymore and now it seems like even the more respectable publications are depending on the tabloids for information. Go figure.
Many, many, many years ago, well before the forums, an interviewer asked Prince Charles exactly that. Did it bother him that he had waited so many years and, with the longevity of QM, it looked like he'd be waiting a few more decades before he could become the king?All good points. I’ve seen many times the implication that Charles is impatient to be King - um, that means he would want his mother to die, which is just...no.
After spending nearly a week of their summer holiday at Mey and a brief weekend at Balmoral with the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, the Sussexes have fallen in love with the country, much to the delight of the Queen and Prince Charles, who is hoping Harry and Meghan may want to get even more involved with the castle in the future. “I think Charles might want Harry, if he is interested, to oversee the operations of Mey when the time is right,” reveals a source.
“The wedding was a real turning point,” the family member continues. “Charles showed so much love towards Harry and Meghan, and I think Harry will be eternally grateful to his papa for stepping in and giving Meghan’s hand in marriage. The bond between them is very close.”
According to the source, the trio spent evenings dining at the castle, reading, walking dogs, and talking. “Charles has been very supportive of Meghan and everything she is going through with her own father. He’s got a real soft spot for her and thinks she’s the best thing to have happened to Harry.”
One thing we do know that is a fact is that the Castle of Mey will never be in the listing of potential properties for Harry and Meghan. In July 1996, The Queen Mother made the property, the policies, and the farm over to the Queen Elizabeth Castle of Mey Trust, which has opened the castle and garden to the public regularly since her death. Charles is presently the president of the Trust and perhaps it would be a role that he may pass on to Harry.
I have no doubt that there is a warm relationship between Charles, Harry and Meghan and to be honest, I don't trust any report that comes out about their private relationships because they do whatever they can to keep it under the radar. Sometimes we'll get a glimpse but we'll never see the entire picture.