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I am your host, Mark Francis. Page six reports suggests
that while public attention often focuses on the rift between
King Charles and Prince Harry, the relationship between the King
and Prince William is not without its own tensions. Royal
biographer Hugo Vickers told page six the problem with William
is that he thinks he knows best. Royal author Robert
Jobson struck a more measured tone, saying, there have been
differences of opinion and a few problems a couple of
years back. William has to rise above it all if
he is going to be king, and both he and
Charles know they have to work together. Jobson added that
despite what he described as eternal battles, the King and
his heir remain in regular contact. They meet regularly and
they converse. There is no major problem. I'm sure William
is not in any way going to reconcile with Harry.
He's made his position pretty clear. They have different paths.
According to Woman's Day, William would insist on a legally
binding agreement before agreeing to meet privately with his younger brother.
An unnamed source told the publication, Harry might have charmed
his way with his father, but it's going to take
a lot more than a few feeble gestures to convince
William to give him another chance. The source claimed that
William and Catherine still feel the hurt and humiliation caused
by Harry and Meghan's public criticism of the royal family,
including the couple's interview with Oprah and Harry's memoir. According
to the report, William believes a legally binding contract is
the only language the Sussexes will understand. One unnamed source
told Radar Online, there is a growing sense that the
King feels the weight of the institution resting largely on
his shoulders, particularly when he looks at how busy his
own schedule has been compared with his heirs. He is
acutely conscious that he is still undertaking a substantial number
of engagements while dealing with a serious illness, and that
contrast has begun to grate. Behind the scenes, Charles genuinely
appreciates William's desire to be a very present, hands on father.
He knows that comes from a sincere place. At the
same time, he cannot entirely shake the feeling that this
carefully crafted image inevitably invites comparisons with his own past,
and that those comparisons do not always fall in his favor.
That touches on all sensitivities about the kind of parent
he was able to be while balancing his duty in
personal life. From the King's perspective, there is a delicate
balance to strike between updating the role for a modern
error and appearing to step back from the responsibilities that
give the monarchy its purpose, whether he sees that he
is pushing through a demanding program of work even as
he manages treatment and recovery. While Williams's public commitments sometimes
look relatively light, it becomes more than just a scheduling issue.
It starts to feel like a source of real tension.
Royal biographer Teina Brown has made a similar argument, suggesting
that Charles may currently be more irritated with William than
Prince Harry. Brown said, the King is, i am told,
currently less irritated with the prodigal Harry than he is
with his eldest son and heir. Somehow, William's parenting dedication
always seems couched as a tacit criticism of the king's
own paternal deficiencies, and after five confirmed family vacations in
the past seven months, William's first week back diary pulsated
with two outings, a father daughter excursion to Women's Rugby
World Cup pool match and a stroll through the Natural
History Museum's new gardens. Charles, despite his battle with cancer,
has carried out official engagements on one hundred and seventy
five days during the past twelve months. At last, Prince
Harry has got it right, which is bad news for
the Prince of Wales. After five years of exuding colera
and wrath and spouting therapeutic gibberish, the ginger Winder finally
realized that all the royals have to do to win
public enthusiasm is zip around the UK and smile. Harry's
own reset, a positivity campaign he hopes will endear him
to his still estranged father and a negative British public,
came with a new unexpected gambit, a contribution from his
own bank account of one point one million pounds to
the Children in Need Project. It can only unleashed for
William the uneasy question of what exactly the forty three
year old Prince of Wales is doing with the twenty
three million pounds a year. King Charles is reportedly encouraging
William and Kate to consider follow showing his lead and
take steps toward easing tentions with Harry and Meghan. According
to Heat magazine, Charles was encouraged by Harry's recent visit
to Birmingham Children's Hospital, where the Duke of Sussex referred
to Prince William as my brother while chatting with a
young Aston Villa supporter. The King is also said to
have been moved by Harry's appearance on the Joe Marler
Will See You Now podcast, where the Duke recalled Princess
Diana embracing both of her sons after difficult days. An
unnamed source said the King just isn't prepared to accept
that William and Harry may never repair their relationship. The
report claims Charles believes both brothers share responsibility for the
breakdown and hopes each will make an effort to rebuild trust.
The source also said Charles is not trying to force
an immediate reunion, but is instead waiting for the right
opportunity to encourage meaningful conversations. The King reportedly hopes William
and Harry can let go of some of the bad blood,
not only for his sake, but also for the benefit
of the next generation of the family. An unnamed source
told heat World, Kate can't help but be terribly worried
for Harry. She sees someone who's broken and angry and
carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders, so
of course a big part of her feels called to
reach out and offer him some support, and the fact
that she can't offer any words of wisdom is very difficult. However,
the report claims William has made it clear that he
would not support any attempt by Kate to contact his
younger brother. According to the source, she has to think
of her husband first, and he's been very clear that
under no circumstances will he accept her extending any sort
of olive branch to his brother. The source alleged William
believes any private communication would be seized upon an leverage
in some way by Harry and Meghan, adding it would
totally undermine his position. He managed to swerve Harry and
Meghan completely when they were in town, and he is
quite pleased with himself for showing that restraint, the source said,
but he's still very bitter about the fact that they
managed to worm their way into a visit with the King,
and the last thing he needs is Kate making it
seem as though all was forgiven when it absolutely isn't.
Kate has caught between a rock and a hard place
because at the end of the day, Harry is still
her brother in law and someone she really cares about.
The reality is she has to side with him. He's
her partner in life and she simply would never go
against his wishes. Kate revealed that she temporarily lost the
ability to concentrate on reading and instead found comfort in coloring.
The comments were made during Kate's visit to the Christie
NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester in June, where she met
patients taking part in art therapy sessions. Video from the
engagement has recently resurfaced online. Speaking with patients, Kate reflected
on her own experience during treatment. I don't know about you,
but I didn't really have the ability to reach or
focus on anything. Actually, coloring was my way of exploring
interesting things and being able to do something that didn't
require an end product or an end finished peace. But
actually just a way of playing and losing yourself, and
lots of thoughts came up in that process. You need
to support yourself alongside all the things you can't control.
Your body changes so much, not just physically emotionally, but
the deeper side of ourselves. It puts so much in
perspective and you hold on to what's important. Her comments
have drawn attention to what many cancer patients describe as
chemo brain, the common side effect of cancer and its
treatment that can affect concentration, memory and focus or palace
in just a moment. A longtime friend of Prince William
and Catherine, Princess of Wales was married in the Scottish Highlands,
bringing renewed attention to the woman once dubbed the couple's
decoy during their university years. Bryanny Daniels announced her marriage
to Adair Williams, the Duke of Sutherland, by sharing photographs
from their Highland wedding on social media. The images show
the newlyweds celebrating beside a classic land Rover before driving
away together after the ceremony. Briyanny wore a gold Amelia
Wicksted gown with a traditional white veil and one of
her dogs joined the wedding party at Strathfike Lodge in
the Scottish Highlands. Brianny became known to royal watchers during
her time at the University of Saint Andrews, where she
studied alongside William and Catherine between two thousand and one
and five. Because she was frequently seen with the future king,
she was the subject of media speculation before it later
emerged that her public appearance with William helped divert attention
from his developing relationship with Catherine. Like Catherine, Bryany also
took part in the university's famous charity fashion show. She
remained a close friend of the couple and was among
the guests of their wedding at Westminster Abbey in twenty eleven.
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