According to reports in Great Britain, Queen Elizabeth tried to bring about a reconciliation between her current son King Charles and her grandson Prince Harry in the last months of her life. When asked why he does not receive the calls of the son who tried to talk to him, Charles told his mother the Queen: “I am not a bank.” The king reportedly stopped talking to Harry after learning about his upcoming book
The tension between Harry and his father the king rises a notch. According to reports in Britain, King Charles told the late queen “I’m not a bank” when asked why he no longer answers any of Prince Harry’s calls, an insider told the Daily Mail.
According to the report, the Queen made repeated efforts to reconcile the two before her death in September. The prince, who lives in the US with Meghan Markle and their two children, “bombarded” his grandmother with phone calls in the last months of her life but a source told the British Sun that the queen was “unable and unwilling” to deal with Harry’s requests.
When she asked her son Charles why he wasn’t receiving Harry’s calls or emails, her son the current king is said to have responded: “I’m not a bank.” The source added: “The late Queen was always happy to talk to Harry, but when he asked for money she said: ‘Why don’t you talk to your father?’
“Harry told her that Charles wasn’t answering his calls anymore.” King Charles insisted that Harry send him an email instead of calling. “Family members, including William, stopped talking to Harry when they heard about his book coming out soon, fearing it might end badly,” the insider added. “Harry is not as well as people want to believe. He wants money.” The relationship could be very bad, especially if the documentary and the prince’s memoir throw more mud at the royals.
The Daily Mail reports that King Charles will ‘close the door’ on Prince Harry if he criticizes his wife Camilla in his new book, a royal expert has warned. Senior royals are preparing for Harry’s controversial publication, a 416-page book due out on January 10.
Royal writer Phil Dampier believes the monarch is determined to stand by his son, but says there is a ‘red line’. If the Duke of Sussex is “too critical of Camilla” or “places too much blame on Charles”, he will pass the “point of no return”.
The ‘Daily Express’ reported that “I’m sure it’s true that Charles will go to great lengths to maintain a relationship with Harry, but there is a limit,” said writer Dampier, “King Charles forgives Harry for everything, except if he drags Camila Levutz, the hope that they would put aside their differences for the sake of family unity quickly disappeared,” he said, “when the queen is gone, the gloves are off.”