The King is “too busy” to see Prince Harry, his love-drunk boy over here on a visit.
This is appalling. If the monarch can devote an hour a week to zombie premier Rishi Sunak, surely he can find time to greet his second-born. The runaway royal may not be the prodigal son, and he isn’t entitled to the fatted calf, but common parental decency demands he can see his dad.
I know King Charles has cancer and he’s having serious medical treatment but to my mind that shouldn’t prevent a meeting. In fact, it’s another reason for father and son to get together. When you’re ill, you want to see your loved ones. It makes you feel better.
That’s why hospitals have visiting times, and encourage family to gather by the bedside. It has a therapeutic effect, and I speak from experience.
But the King isn’t bedridden. He’s carrying out some constitutional duties, and he has been out and about in public, albeit on a limited scale. Clearly, there is no medical impediment to their getting together.
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And while it’s hard to feel sympathy for Prince Harry’s failings: his runaway from royal responsibility and his surrender to the American media money-moguls, he too has rights. He would benefit from a better relationship with his father, involving more frequent – and totally unpublicised – meetings. The father-son link is a thousand times more important than the portentous claims of being head of state.
There is too much dereliction of parental duty in society today, and the King, to whom the nation looks for a model of duty and responsibility, should not add to it. I may not be the best father in the world, but I would never, ever, be too busy to see our two daughters. Or their daughters – and their daughters, too.
Family matters. The boy wants to talk. Listen up, Your Majesty!
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